The instruments also of the churl are evil: he deviseth wicked devices to destroy the poor with lying words, even when the needy speaketh right.
The churl - the fraudulent (cf. , note). This verse refers to the last clause of as referred to its first clause.
Even when the needy speaketh right - pleadeth a just cause (). Spiritually, "the poor man's cause" is the divine doctrine, his rule of faith and practice.
Verse Isaiah 32:7. _THE INSTRUMENTS ALSO OF THE CHURL ARE EVIL_ - "As for the niggard, his instruments are evil"] His machinations, his designs. The paronomasia, which the prophet frequently deals in...
THE INSTRUMENTS ALSO - In the Hebrew here there is a paronomasia which cannot be imitated in a translation. The word ‘instruments’ here denotes evidently the means by which the churl accomplishes his...
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...
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...
INSTRUMENTS ALSO OF THE CHURL. Note the Figure of speech _Paronomasia_. Hebrew. _vekelay kelayv._ English chattels of the churl. EVIL. Hebrew. _ra'a'_. App-44. DEVISETH. counselleth. WICKED. Hebrew...
Isaiah 32:1-8. The ideal commonwealth of the Messianic Age This passage, although treated by many expositors as the continuation of ch. 31, bears all the marks of an independent prophecy. Its inserti...
The two types contrasted in their conduct....
_The instruments_ i.e. the weapons or methods, of the knave. The word is chosen because of its close similarity to that for "knave" (_kçlai kçlâv_). On these machinations of the knave, see ch. Isaiah...
THE VILE PERSON, &C.— The meaning of this passage is, clearly, that, after the time of this great deliverance under the reign of a pious and just king, those things and persons which had appeared unde...
C. FUTURE THAT IS FRUITFUL, Chapter S 32-33 1. SOVEREIGN TEXT: Isaiah 32:1-8 1 Behold, a king shall reign in righteousness, and princes shall rule in justice. 2 And a man shall be as a hiding-pla...
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....
The fool only thinks about himself and about his own affairs. He does not even notice other people’s problems. JUDGEMENT IS COMING V9 Listen to me, you women in Judah. You live in comfort. You feel...
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...
TO DESTROY THE POOR WITH LYING WORDS... — The words, though perfectly generic in their form, are probably not without an implied reference to those who had thus acted towards Isaiah himself, making ev...
וְ כֵלַ֖י כֵּלָ֣יו רָעִ֑ים ה֚וּא זִמֹּ֣ות יָע
CHAPTER XV A MAN: CHARACTER AND THE CAPACITY TO DISCRIMINATE CHARACTER ABOUT 720 B.C. Isaiah 32:1 THE Assyrians being thus disposed of, Isaiah turns to a prospect, on which we have scarcely heard h...
A NOBLER FUTURE FOR THE NATION Isaiah 31:1-9; Isaiah 32:1-8 Isaiah continues to denounce the contemplated alliance with Egypt. His compatriots put their trust in horses and chariots, and refused the...
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...
_Vessels. Arms, (Calmet) or all the words and actions of the miser are bent on evil. (Haydock) --- The ministers of wicked princes resemble them. (Menochius)_...
It would enlarge this Commentary to an extent indeed, were I to analyze the several verses here brought together, and say the half of what might be said in the paraphrase upon them. But all the blesse...
7._The instruments of the covetous man are evil. _We must always keep by the future tense; for he does not inquire what wicked men are, but declares that they shall be revealed under the reign of Chri...
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...
THE INSTRUMENTS ALSO OF THE CHURL [ARE] EVIL,.... Not his [vessels] or measures he sells by, which are small and deficient, as Kimchi and Ben Melech interpret it; nor his servants, his tools in doing...
The instruments also of the churl [are] evil: he deviseth wicked devices to destroy the poor with lying words, even when the needy speaketh right. Ver. 7. _The instruments also of the churl are evil....
_The instruments also of the churl are evil_ Hebrew, כלי, _the vessels._ It is a word of a very general signification among the Hebrews, and signifies any person or thing which is employed in a man's...
The instruments also of the churl, of the fraudulent, of the hypocrite, ARE EVIL; HE DEVISETH WICKED DEVICES, plots of every kind, TO DESTROY THE POOR WITH LYING WORDS, to bring destruction upon the a...
A GOVERNMENT OF RIGHTEOUSNESS...
WHEN THE NEEDY SPEAKETH RIGHT: Or, he speaketh against the poor in judgment...
1-8 Christ our righteous King, and his true disciples, are evidently here intended. The consolations and graces of his Spirit are as rivers of water in this dry land; and as the overhanging rock affo...
THE INSTRUMENTS ALSO OF THE CHURL ARE EVIL, Heb. _The vessels_, &c., which is a word of a very general signification among the Hebrews, and signifies any person or thing which is employed in a man's u...
Isaiah 32:7 schemes H3627 schemer H3596 evil H7451 devises H3289 (H8804) plans H2154 destroy H2254 (H8763) poor...
A COMPARISON OF THE WISE AND HONOURABLE WITH THE FOOLISH AND THE CRAFTY (ISAIAH 32:4). In describing what will happen in the coming kingdom Isaiah analyses wisdom and folly. The king will deliver His...
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...
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....
_For the vile person will speak villany_ THE OUTER LIFE ACCORDING TO THE INNER A vile person and a churl will do mischief; and the more if he be preferred, and have power in his hand. His honours w...
_Behold, a King shall reign in righteousness_ ASAYRIA AND JUDAH Such (Isaiah 31:8) will be the ignominious end of the proud battalions of Assyria. For Judah a happier future immediately begins. Ther...
SECTION VIII. A PROPHECY OF MESSIAH'S KINGDOM (Isaiah 32:1). EXPOSITION ISAIAH 32:1 A PROPHECY OF MESSIAH'S KING
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...
1 Kings 21:10; Acts 6:11; Isaiah 1:23; Isaiah 5:23; Isaiah 59:3;...
Lying words — With false and unrighteous decrees. Even — When their cause is just and good....