Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Isaiah 32:14
Forsaken — Of God, and given up into their enemies hands. A joy — Desolate places, in which wild asses delight to be.
Forsaken — Of God, and given up into their enemies hands. A joy — Desolate places, in which wild asses delight to be.
Verse Isaiah 32:14. _THE PALACES SHALL BE FORSAKEN_] The house of the sanctuary (the temple) shall be destroyed. - _Targum_. _THE FORTS _- "Ophel"] It was a part of Mount Zion, rising higher than th...
BECAUSE THE PALACES SHALL BE FORSAKEN - That is, the palaces in the cities and towns which Sennacherib would lay waste. Or, if it refers, as Lowth supposes, to the invasion of the land in the time of...
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...
FORSAKEN. neglected. LEFT. See note on "forsake", Isaiah 1:4. FOREVER. Figure of speech _Synecdoche_ (of the Whole), Put for. prolonged period. Note the limitation by the word "until" in the next ve...
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
Render: FOR THE PALACE IS FORSAKEN, THE TUMULT OF THE CITY IS A SOLITUDE (as in ch. Isaiah 6:12), &c. The tenses are prophetic perfects. _the forts and towers_ Better as in R.V.: THE HILL AND THE WATC...
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...
Because the palaces shall be forsaken; the multitude of the city shall be left; the forts and towers shall be for dens for ever, a joy of wild asses, a pasture of flocks; BECAUSE THE PALACES - mos...
32:14 hill (l-15) Or, as a proper name, 'Ophel.'...
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....
MULTITUDE.. CITY] RV 'populous city.'...
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...
THE PALACES SHALL BE FORSAKEN. — With a bold pencil and rapid strokes the picture of desolation is sketched in outline. The forts are those of Ophel (so in Heb.), the fortified south-eastern slope of...
כִּֽי ־אַרְמֹ֣ון נֻטָּ֔שׁ הֲמֹ֥ון עִ֖יר עֻזָּ֑ב...
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 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...
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...
_Ever. Some palaces had been demolished by Sennacherib, though this seems to refer to the Babylonian captivity._...
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...
14._For the palace shall be forsaken. _Here also he describes more fully the desolation of the country; for, having mentioned in the former verse magnificent houses, he now likewise adds palaces and c...
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...
BECAUSE THE PALACES SHALL BE FORSAKEN,.... The palaces of the princes and nobles shall be forsaken by them, they being obliged to flee from the enemy, or being taken, and either slain, or carried capt...
Because the palaces shall be forsaken; the multitude of the city shall be left; the forts and towers shall be for dens for ever, a joy of wild asses, a pasture of flocks; Ver. 14. _The multitude of t...
_Upon the land, &c., shall come up thorns and briers_ If any of you think there is no great cause for such trembling and lamentation, on account of a calamity which shall last but for a year and some...
Because the palaces, in which the rich were then living, SHALL BE FORSAKEN; THE MULTITUDE OF THE CITY SHALL BE LEFT, the noisy din of the large city, that is, the city with its noisy multitude, forsak...
DESOLATION AND RESTORATION...
FORTS AND TOWERS: Or, clifts and watchtowers...
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...
THE PALACES, Heb. _the palace_; the king's house, and other magnificent buildings in the city. SHALL BE LEFT; or rather, _shall be forsaken_, to wit, of God, and given up into their enemies hands. And...
Isaiah 32:14 palaces H759 forsaken H5203 (H8795) bustling H1995 city H5892 deserted H5800 (H8795) forts H6076 towers
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....
_Upon the land of my people shall come up thorns and briers_ THE OUTPOURING OF THE SPIRIT As the communication of the Spirit is necessary to produce a reformation, so a large communication or outpou...
THE ESSENTIAL CONDITION OF MISSIONARY SUCCESS Isaiah 32:13. _Upon the land of my people_, &c. This chapter commences with a prophecy of the appearance and the kingdom of Christ. But instead of finish...
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...
2 Kings 25:9; Isaiah 13:19; Isaiah 24:10; Isaiah 24:12; Isaiah 24:1