Isaiah 32:15-16

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 of God, as he had shewn in ch. Isaiah 29:17, &c. and Isaiah 30:19, &c. which are analogous to this. The benefits that he here enumerates are principally spiritual: and though the prophet, no doubt, in these words refers primarily to the blessings consequent upon the people's return from the Babylonish captivity; yet there can be no doubt that they likewise refer to the effusion of the Holy Spirit in the times of the Messiah, and the consequent conversion of the Gentile world; that wilderness, which, through grace, should be turned into a fruitful field. See ch. Isaiah 29:17. Ezekiel 36:24; Ezekiel 36:38 and Vitringa.