George Haydock's Catholic Commentary
Isaiah 32:2
Land. Ezechias and Josias were both a defence to their subjects.
Land. Ezechias and Josias were both a defence to their subjects.
Verse Isaiah 32:2. _AS THE SHADOW OF A GREAT ROCK_] The shadow of a great projecting rock is the most refreshing that is possible in a hot country, not only as most perfectly excluding the rays of the...
AND A MAN - That is, evidently, the man referred to in the previous verse, to wit, Hezekiah. SHALL BE AS AN HIDING-PLACE FROM THE WIND - A place where one may take refuge from a violent wind and temp...
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...
AND. Note the Figure of speech _Polysyndeton_ in verses: Isaiah 32:2, emphasizing every detail. MAN. Hebrew. _'ish._ App-14. WIND. Hebrew. _ruach_. App-9. RIVERS OF WATER. Hebrew. _palgei-mayim._ Ch...
It is characteristic of Isaiah that the renovation of society is represented as commencing at the top, with the king and aristocracy. (Cf. ch. Isaiah 1:26; Isaiah 3:1-7) The ideal king has already bee...
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...
For _a man_read EACH ONE (of the princes). The meaning of the figure is that every great man, instead of being a tyrant and oppressor of the poor (Isaiah 29:20 f.), shall be a protection against calam...
DISCOURSE: 906 SECURITY AND COMFORT IN CHRIST Isaiah 32:2. _A man shall be as an hiding-place from the wind, and a covert from the tempest; as rivers of water in a dry place, as the shadow of a great...
BEHOLD, A KING SHALL REIGN— The prophet sets forth the two consequences of this gracious and glorious benefit; namely,—in these verses,—the flourishing and prosperous reign of Hezekiah, to shew forth...
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...
And a man shall be as an hiding place from the wind, and a covert from the tempest; as rivers of water in a dry place, as the shadow of a great rock in a weary land. A MAN - rather, the man, Christ...
Men will defend and protect their inferiors instead of oppressing them....
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....
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...
A MAN SHALL BE... — The word is that used in Isaiah 31:8 for “mighty man,” in Isaiah 2:9 for “great man,” and probably retains that meaning here. The nobles of Judah, who had been tyrannous and oppres...
וְ הָיָה ־אִ֥ישׁ כְּ מַֽחֲבֵא ־ר֖וּחַ וְ
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 -----------...
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...
And a man shall be as an hiding place from the wind, and a covert from the tempest; as streams of water in a dry place, as the shadow of a great rock in (c) a weary land. (c) Where men are weary with...
In some of our old Bibles, the reading is rendered more strong, by defining the person to whom this refers. Behold the king. What king? Surely him whom Jehovah himself saith, he hath set upon his holy...
2._And that man shall be. _How great is the importance of well-regulated government the Prophet shews plainly by these words, when he calls that king _a hiding-place from the wind, and a covert from t...
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...
AND A MAN SHALL BE AS AN HIDING PLACE FROM THE WIND, AND A COVERT FROM THE TEMPEST,.... Or, "that man"; the King Messiah before mentioned; who had agreed to become man, was promised and prophesied of...
And a man shall be as an hiding place from the wind, and a covert from the tempest; as rivers of water in a dry place, as the shadow of a great rock in a weary land. Ver. 2. _And a man shall be,_] _i...
Isa. 32:2. "As rivers of water in a dry place, and as the shadow of a great rock in a weary land." There is an allusion here to the deserts of Arabia, which was an exceeding hot and dry place, one mig...
_And a man_ Either the man or king spoken of, or each of his princes, _shall be a hiding-place_ A protection to the people under their government, especially to such as are oppressed or injured by tho...
A GOVERNMENT OF RIGHTEOUSNESS...
And a Man, or _ the_ Man, namely, the great Son of Man, Jesus Christ, SHALL BE AS AN HIDING-PLACE FROM THE WIND, a Shelter against wind-storms, AND A COVERT FROM THE TEMPEST, a Protector against oppre...
GREAT: _ Heb._ heavy...
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...
_ A man_; either, 1. The man or king spoken of. Or, 2. Each or every one, to wit, of his princes. That king shall not patch up an old garment with new cloth, nor mingle good and bad together; but sha...
Isaiah 32:2 man H376 place H4224 wind H7307 cover H5643 tempest H2230 rivers H6388 water H4325 place H6724 shadow...
THE COMING KING (ISAIAH 32:1). The final result of Yahweh's activity will be the rise of the righteous king and the establishment of the perfect kingdom. This can be compared with Isaiah 11:1. Analy...
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....
_A man shall be as an hiding-place from the wind_ A HIDING-PLACE FROM THE WIND In the East, the following phenomenon is often observed. Where the desert touches a river, valley, or oasis, the sand i...
_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...
CHRIST OUR HIDING-PLACE And a man shall be as an hiding place from the wind, and a covert from the tempest; as the shadow of a great rock in a weary land. Isaiah 32:2. Thinking of the text, and wond...
THE PRECIOUSNESS OF CHRIST Isaiah 32:2. _“A man shall be as an hiding-place,” &c._ These figures all coincide in setting forth one great and blessed truth—the truth that _in Christ there is suitable...
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 Timothy 3:16; Isaiah 25:4; Isaiah 26:20; Isaiah 26:21; Isaiah 28:17
A man — Each of his princes. A hiding place — Unto the people under their government. The wind — From the rage and violence of evil men. As rivers — No less refreshing. As the shadow — In a dry and sc...