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Isaiah 32:16

"Judgment" and "righteousness," the foundations of social order (ch. Isaiah 1:21; Isaiah 1:26 f., Isaiah 28:17), shall then be established throughout the land. The "wilderness" (i.e. untilled pasture-land) is not annihilated, only pushed further into the desert proper; even there the reign of right extends.

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See also Isaiah 32:16 in other biblical comments:

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    THEN JUDGMENT SHALL DWELL - Or, justice shall make its appropriate dwelling-place there. IN THE WILDERNESS - In the place that was a wilderness, but that shall now be turned to a fruitful field. IN...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    CHAPTER 32 THE COMING KING AND HIS KINGDOM 1. _The King and His rule (Isaiah 32:1)_ 2. _The careless women addressed (Isaiah 32:9)_ 3. _The judgment of the land and the city (Isaiah 32:13)_ 4. The hop...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    ISAIAH 32. This chapter is regarded by some scholars as non-Isaianic on the ground of phraseology and ideas, but while it may have been interpolated, it is probably in the main Isaiah's work. It falls...

  • Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

    DISCOURSE: 907 THE WORK OF RIGHTEOUSNESS IS PEACE Isaiah 32:16. _Then judgment shall dwell in the wilderness, and righteousness remain in the fruitful field. And the work of righteousness shall be pe...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    UNTIL THE SPIRIT BE POURED UPON US— The prophet teaches, that the calamity which he had foretold should at length terminate, after a long delay, in excellent benefits to be conferred upon the people o...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    2. SECURITY TEXT: Isaiah 32:9-20 9 Rise up, ye women that are at ease, and hear my voice; ye careless daughters, give ear unto my speech. 10 For days beyond a year shall ye be troubled, ye carele...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    Then judgment shall dwell in the wilderness, and righteousness remain in the fruitful field. JUDGMENT - justice. SHALL DWELL IN THE WILDERNESS - then reclaimed. AND RIGHTEOUSNESS REMAIN IN THE...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    1-8. Characteristics of the future age. 9-14. A warning of coming desolation to the over-confident people. 15-20. Afterwards shall be a peaceful and prosperous future....

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    The terrible changes that verses 13-14 describe are not final. An even greater change will follow. That also will be the work of God’s spirit. • There will be a new earth (verse 15). There will be ne...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    ISAIAH: GOD CONTROLS THE NATIONS GOD DEFENDS *JERUSALEM ISAIAH CHAPTER S 31 TO 39 _NORMAN HILLYER_ CHAPTER 32 A NEW KING V1 Some day there will be a new king. He will govern rightly. And his o...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    THEN JUDGMENT SHALL DWELL... — Outward blessings, themselves symbols of something beyond themselves, are followed by spiritual. Over the whole country, from the one extreme of cultivation to the other...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וְ שָׁכַ֥ן בַּ † מִּדְבָּ֖ר מִשְׁפָּ֑ט וּ...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    BOOK 3 ORATIONS ON THE EGYPTIAN INTRIGUES AND ORACLES ON FOREIGN NATIONS 705-702 B.C. Isaiah: 29 About 703 30 A little later 31 A little later 32:1-8 Later 32:9-20 Date uncertain -----------...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    CHAPTER XVI ISAIAH TO WOMEN DATE UNCERTAIN Isaiah 32:9 THE date of this prophecy, which has been appended to those spoken by Isaiah during the Egyptian intrigues (704-702), is not certain. It is ad...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    THE FRUITS OF RIGHTEOUSNESS Isaiah 32:9-20 When Christ's kingdom is set up it will bring dismay to the poor children of fashion. For more days than there are in the year will they be troubled, Isaiah...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    In this message the prophet describes the reign of the coming King, and then suddenly appeals to the women. He describes the reign of the King as establishment of order and creation of refuge and refr...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    I include the whole of these blessed verses under one reading, for the sake of shortness. How very gracious is this call to all careless and inconsiderate persons; and how strikingly doth the Prophet...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    16._And judgment shall dwell in the wilderness. _The Prophet shews what is the actual condition of the Church, that is, when justice and judgment prevail; for men ought not to be like cattle, which se...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    Then, in chapter 32, the Messiah should reign in righteousness and set everything morally in order. Zion would in fact be a wilderness until the Spirit was poured out from on high, and then it should...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    THEN JUDGMENT SHALL DWELL IN THE WILDERNESS,.... In the desert part of the world, inhabited by Pagans, Papists, and Mahometans; where the Scriptures, the rule of judgment, and where the Gospel, someti...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Then judgment shall dwell in the wilderness, and righteousness remain in the fruitful field. Ver. 16. _Then judgment shall dwell in the wilderness._] In this and the next verse, he setteth forth the...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _Then judgment_ Just judgment, as the next clause explains it, _shall dwell in the wilderness_ In what had formerly been a wilderness, namely, among the Gentiles, now supposed to be converted to Chris...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    DESOLATION AND RESTORATION...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Then judgment shall dwell in the wilderness, the justice of God being acknowledged where it was formerly unknown, AND RIGHTEOUSNESS REMAIN IN THE FRUITFUL FIELD, since the believers grow both in tire...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    9-20 When there was so much provocation given to the holy God, bad times might be expected. Alas! how many careless ones there are, who support self-indulgence by shameful niggardliness! We deserve t...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    JUDGMENT; just judgment, as the next clause explains it. Justice shall be executed in all the parts of the land, both in the barren and fruitful places, and shall be practised by all my people; which...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Isaiah 32:16 justice H4941 dwell H7931 (H8804) wilderness H4057 righteousness H6666 remain H3427 (H8799) field H3759

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    THE GREAT TURN-AROUND (ISAIAH 32:15). Analysis. a Until the Spirit is poured on us from above, and the wilderness becomes a fruitful field, and the fruitful field be counted for a forest (Isaiah 32:...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Promise of coming Kingdom. Warning of great tribulation. The King Deliverer. CHARACTERS: God. CONCLUSION: Wasting and desolating judgment upon the land and people of Israel was pronounced b...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Isaiah 32:3. _The eyes of them that see shall not be dim._ The whole land shall be full of smiling affluence and joy; they shall have health of countenance, and look up with joy to a paternal throne....

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Until the Spirit be poured upon us from on high_ SPIRITUAL INFLUENCES I. THERE IS PROVIDED IN CONNECTION WITH THE CHRISTIAN ECONOMY, THE BESTOWMENT OF SPIRITUAL INFLUENCES ON MANKIND. 1. In what ma...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Upon the land of my people shall come up thorns and briers_ THE OUTPOURING OF THE SPIRIT As the communication of the Spirit is necessary to produce a reformation, so a large communication or outpou...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    SECTION VIII. A PROPHECY OF MESSIAH'S KINGDOM (Isaiah 32:1). EXPOSITION ISAIAH 32:1 A PROPHECY OF MESSIAH'S KING

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Now as we get into chapter 32 Isaiah jumps over a couple of millennia at least, as he looks forward. As God is going to come down and as a crouching lion roaring and so forth, over her prey, in verse...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Corinthians 6:9; 1 Peter 2:9; 1 Peter 4:1; Hosea 3:5; Isaiah 35:8;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Judgment — Just judgment. Righteousness — Justice shall be executed in all the parts of the land....

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