Isaiah 32:1
The ideal future.... [ Continue Reading ]
The ideal future.... [ Continue Reading ]
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.... [ Continue Reading ]
Men will defend and protect their inferiors instead of oppressing them.... [ Continue Reading ]
Cp. Isaiah 29:18. 5F. Moral confusion shall cease; men shall be taken at their true value, their character being clearly seen in their actions.... [ Continue Reading ]
HYPOCRISY] RV 'profaneness.'... [ Continue Reading ]
BY.. STAND] RV 'in liberal things shall he continue.' 9-14. Cp. Isaiah 3:16.... [ Continue Reading ]
MANY.. YEARS] RM 'Days above a year,' i.e. in little more than a year.... [ Continue Reading ]
LAMENT.. TEATS] RV 'smite upon the breasts,' a gesture of despairing lamentation over the desolated vineyards.... [ Continue Reading ]
MULTITUDE.. CITY] RV 'populous city.'... [ Continue Reading ]
A limit is set to the desolation. A bright future is in store, when the outward transformation of the country will correspond with the moral reformation (Isaiah 32:16). This change alike in man and in nature is attributed,' to an outpouring of the divine and life-giving spirit.... [ Continue Reading ]
WHEN] RV 'but': a judgment is to precede the time of peace just described. COMING, etc.] RV 'in the downfall of the forest,' i.e. of the Assyrian. THE CITY] Jerusalem too must be humbled.... [ Continue Reading ]
Refers to the bright future again, when the land shortly to be desolate (Isaiah 32:13) shall be fully cultivated. BESIDE ALL WATERS] for the land will be everywhere irrigated (Isaiah 30:25).... [ Continue Reading ]