George Haydock's Catholic Commentary
Isaiah 32:20
Waters. Fruitful soils, abounding with cattle. (Calmet) --- Both Jews and Gentiles shall submit to Christ. (Clement of Alexandria, Strom. vi.) (St. Jerome)
Waters. Fruitful soils, abounding with cattle. (Calmet) --- Both Jews and Gentiles shall submit to Christ. (Clement of Alexandria, Strom. vi.) (St. Jerome)
Verse Isaiah 32:20. _THAT SOW BESIDE ALL WATERS_ - "Who sow your seed in every well-watered place"] Sir John Chardin's note on this place is: - "This exactly answers the manner of planting rice; for...
BLESSED ARE YE - The sense of this verse is, that while the enemies of the Jews would be overthrown, they themselves would be permitted to cultivate their lands in security. Instead of predicting this...
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...
BLESSED. O the happinesses of you, &c. The second of the three occurring in Isaiah. See note on Isaiah 30:18. Compare Isaiah 56:2....
Isaiah 32:9-20 To the Women of Jerusalem Like the previous sections (Isaiah 29:1 ff., Isaiah 29:15 ff., Isaiah 30:31) this passage is divided i
The prophet apostrophises the happy agricultural population of the renovated land of Israel. The sentiment may be in part due to his own delight in the avocations of the husbandman, but it has to be r...
BLESSED ARE YE THAT SOW, &C.— The _wilderness_ of the Gentile world was to be changed into a _fruitful field;_ the prophet therefore foresaw it would come to pass, that the apostles and disciples of J...
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...
Blessed are ye that sow beside all waters, that send forth thither the feet of the ox and the ass. BLESSED (ARE) YE THAT SOW BESIDE ALL WATERS. While the enemy shall be brought "low," the Jews sha...
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)....
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 regular supply of water is essential in a dry and hot country. JERUSALEM ~ at the time of David and Solomon, capital of the country called Israel. During the time of Isaiah, Jerusalem was the capit...
BLESSED ARE YE THAT SOW BESIDE ALL WATERS. — The picture of a golden age of agriculture receives its final touch. The whole land should be irrigated by calmly flowing streams, and men should cast thei...
אַשְׁרֵיכֶ֕ם זֹרְעֵ֖י עַל ־כָּל ־מָ֑יִם מְשַׁלְּחֵ֥י...
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...
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 -----------...
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...
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...
Blessed [are] ye (n) that sow beside all waters, that (o) send forth [there] the feet of the ox and the donkey. (n) That is, upon fat ground and well watered, which brings forth in abundance, or in p...
REFLECTIONS HAIL! thou King of righteousness! whom Jehovah hath set for his own King in Zion! Let my soul trace thee, and feast on thy glories, while I behold thee on thine holy hill! Truly, Lord, by...
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...
20._Blessed are ye. _He shews how great will be the change, when Christ shall begin to reign; for he had formerly said that so great would be the desolation, that “thorns and briers” would overspread...
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...
BLESSED [ARE] YE THAT SOW BESIDE ALL WATERS,.... In places well watered and moistened, and so fit to receive the seed sown, which grows up, and brings forth much fruit, and amply rewards the pains of...
Blessed [are] ye that sow beside all waters, that send forth [thither] the feet of the ox and the ass. Ver. 20. _Blessed are ye that sow beside all waters._] _Conclusionem texit ipse propheta._ The p...
_Blessed are ye that sow_, &c. As the barren forest shall be destroyed, so the fruitful field shall be improved and bring forth much fruit, which is signified by a declaration of the blessedness of th...
Blessed are ye that sow beside all waters, scattering their seeds in the fertile lowlands everywhere, THAT SEND FORTH THITHER THE FEET OF THE OX AND THE ASS, letting their beasts of burden roam freely...
DESOLATION AND RESTORATION...
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...
BLESSED ARE YE THAT SOW: as the barren forest shall be destroyed with hail, ISAIAH 32:19, so the fruitful field shall be improved, and bring forth much fruit; which is signified by a declaration of th...
Isaiah 32:20 Blessed H835 sow H2232 (H8802) waters H4325 out H7971 (H8764) feet H7272 ox H7794 donkey...
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:...
Isaiah 32:20 I. Notice, first, the characters here described. They are sowers. Of course a sower implies seed, and it will be well for us to acknowledge at the outset that there is only one granary, s...
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....
_Blessed are ye that sow beside all waters_ TIMES OF PEACE SHOULD BE IMPROVED The war is now over; Asher has been crushed like a serpent, and this sweet voice is heard when the enemy has been driven...
ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 32:19 Isaiah concludes the vision of messianic glory with two metaphors: the destruction of Assyria and the humbling of Jerusalem in the short term (v. Isaiah 32:19), and the u
SPIRITUAL HUSBANDRY Isaiah 32:20. _Blessed are ye that sow beside all waters, that send forth thither the feet of the ox and the ass_. Two explanations of this description of agricultural life. The f...
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 Corinthians 3:6; 1 Corinthians 9:9; Acts 2:41; Acts 4:4; Acts 5:14;...
Blessed — As the barren forest shall be destroyed, so the fruitful field shall be improved, and bring forth much fruit; which is signified by a declaration of the blessedness of them that sow in it. W...