Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Isaiah 32:12
The teats — For the pleasant and fruitful fields, which like teats yielded you plentiful and excellent nourishment.
The teats — For the pleasant and fruitful fields, which like teats yielded you plentiful and excellent nourishment.
Verse Isaiah 32:12. _THEY SHALL LAMENT - FOR THE PLEASANT FIELDS_ - "Mourn ye for the pleasant field"] The _Septuagint, Syriac_, and _Vulgate_ read ספדו _siphdu, mourn ye_, imperative; twelve MSS., ...
THEY SHALL LAMENT FOR THE TEATS - Interpreters have been not a little perplexed by this expression. Lowth supposes it is to be taken in connection with the previous verse, and that it denotes that sac...
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...
PLEASANT FIELDS =fields of desire. Figure of speech. _Enallage_. App-6...
_They_shall _lament for the teats_ R.V. gives a better translation: THEY SHALL SMITE UPON THE BREASTS; but the construction is difficult. The verb is a masculine plural participle and signifies strict...
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
TREMBLE, YE WOMEN— _Tremble,_ &c.—_and gird sackcloth upon your loins,_ Isaiah 32:12 _upon your breasts; lamenting for the pleasant field, for the fruitful vine:_ Isaiah 32:13 _for the land,_ &c.—_yea...
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...
They shall lament for the teats, for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine. THEY SHALL LAMENT FOR THE TEATS, FOR THE PLEASANT FIELDS - `They shall smite on their breasts in lamentation for the...
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....
LAMENT.. TEATS] RV 'smite upon the breasts,' a gesture of despairing lamentation over the desolated vineyards....
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...
THEY SHALL LAMENT FOR THE TEATS... — Better, _shall smite upon the breasts._ The Hebrew nouns for “teats” and “fields,” _Shâdaim_ and _Sadè,_ have an assonance which may be represented by the Latin _u...
עַל ־שָׁדַ֖יִם סֹֽפְדִ֑ים עַל ־שְׂדֵי ־חֶ֕מֶד...
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...
They shall lament for the (i) breasts, for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine. (i) By the breasts he means the plentiful fields, by which men are nourished as children with the breast: or, th...
_Mourn. Septuagint, "beat." (Haydock) --- Breasts, suckling infants. In mourning, women beat and uncovered their breasts, which, on any other occasion, would have been deemed very indecent. (Calmet) ...
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...
12._Mourning over the breasts. _This verse is explained in various ways. Some understand it to mean simply, that there will be so great a scarcity of provisions, that women will lose their milk, and 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...
THEY SHALL LAMENT FOR THE TEATS,.... Either of the beasts of the field, that should be dried up, and give no milk, through the great drought that should be upon the land; or through the waste of the h...
_They shall lament for the teats, for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine._ Ver. 12. _They shall mourn for the teats._] That is, for their grain and wine. The heathens called Ceres their godde...
_Rise up_, &c. The prophet, to show _the sinners_ and _hypocrites in Zion_, (Isaiah 33:14,) that they must not expect to receive blessings from God, such as he had just now predicted, while they remai...
They shall lament for the teats, for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine, rather, "Upon their breasts they will strike over the fields of pleasantness or desire, over the vine of fruitfulness,...
DESOLATION AND RESTORATION...
THE PLEASANT FIELDS: _ Heb._ the fields of desire...
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...
THEY SHALL LAMENT FOR THE TEATS; either, 1. Properly, because through famine your teats are destitute of milk for the nourishment of your poor children. Or rather, 2. Metaphorically, as the following...
Isaiah 32:12 mourn H5594 (H8802) breasts H7699 pleasant H2531 fields H7704 fruitful H6509 (H8802) vine H1612...
LIFE AS IT WILL BE BEFORE THE KING COMES IN TERMS OF CARELESS WOMEN AT EASE (ISAIAH 32:9). Isaiah showed neither fear nor favour. He was as ready to draw attention to the sins of the womenfolk as well...
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....
ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 32:11 A call to serious repentance. ⇐ ⇔...
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...
Deuteronomy 11:11; Deuteronomy 11:12; Deuteronomy 8:7; Deuteronomy 8:8;...