Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Isaiah 32:17
The work — The effect of this shall be prosperity. Quietness — Tranquility, both of mind and outward estate. Assurance — Of God's mercy, and the fulfilling of his promises.
The work — The effect of this shall be prosperity. Quietness — Tranquility, both of mind and outward estate. Assurance — Of God's mercy, and the fulfilling of his promises.
Verse Isaiah 32:17. _THE WORK OF RIGHTEOUSNESS_] Righteousness works and produces peace. _THE EFFECT OF RIGHTEOUSNESS_] עבדת _abodath, the culture_. Righteousness, _cultivated_ by peace, produces tr...
AND THE WORK OF RIGHTEOUSNESS - That which righteousness produces; or the effect of the prevalence of righteousness on the nation. SHALL BE PEACE - There shall be no internal agitation, and no confli...
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...
WORK. tillage. assurance. confidence. Hebrew. _b_. _t_ ah (App-69) Same word as careless (Isaiah 32:9), but not in irony....
The consequence of this supremacy of righteousness is universal tranquillity and security, a contrast to the false carnal security denounced in Isaiah 32:9_; Isaiah 32:11_....
_work_and _effect_are synonyms; both mean literally "work," and both have the sense of "effect" (the latter only here used in this sense). _quietness and assurance_ (R.V. CONFIDENCE) cf. ch. Isaiah 3...
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
DISCOURSE: 907 THE WORK OF RIGHTEOUSNESS IS PEACE Isaiah 32:16. _Then judgment shall dwell in the wilderness, and righteousness remain in the fruitful field. And the work of righteousness shall be pe...
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...
And the work of righteousness shall be peace; and the effect of righteousness quietness and assurance for ever. AND THE WORK - the effect (; ). OF RIGHTEOUSNESS SHALL BE PEACE - internal and ext...
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...
The terrible changes that verses 13-14 describe are not final. An even greater change will follow. That also will be the work of God’s spirit. • There will be a new earth (verse 15). There will be ne...
וְ הָיָ֛ה מַעֲשֵׂ֥ה הַ צְּדָקָ֖ה שָׁלֹ֑ום וַֽ
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...
_Peace. The just shall enjoy peace, under Ezechias._...
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...
17._And the work of righteousness shall be peace. _A little before, he censured severely that peace which made the Jews drowsy and slothful; he now promises a different kind of repose, which will be a...
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 THE WORK OF RIGHTEOUSNESS SHALL BE PEACE,.... Not works of righteousness done by men, no, not by the best of men; for though peace may be had and enjoyed in doing them, yet it does not arise and f...
And the work of righteousness shall be peace; and the effect of righteousness quietness and assurance for ever. Ver. 17. _And the work of righteousness shall be peace._] Peace both of country and of...
_Then judgment_ Just judgment, as the next clause explains it, _shall dwell in the wilderness_ In what had formerly been a wilderness, namely, among the Gentiles, now supposed to be converted to Chris...
And the work of righteousness, the condition which is produced by the application of the Lord's righteousness in all the affairs of the Church, SHALL BE PEACE, a security resting upon the foundation o...
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...
THE WORK OF RIGHTEOUSNESS SHALL BE PEACE; the effect of this prevailing practice of righteousness shall be prosperity and outward felicity. QUIETNESS; tranquillity, both of mind and outward estate. AS...
Isaiah 32:17 work H4639 righteousness H6666 peace H7965 effect H5656 righteousness H6666 quietness H8252 (H8687) assurance...
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 32:17 I. Isaiah was a true patriot; he was a man of the purest moral character, and of the most absolute faith in God. It broke his heart to see the degradation of his countrymen; he saw that i...
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....
_And the work of righteousness shall be peace_ THE TRUE WORK OF LIFE I. THE NATURE OF TRUE LIFE WORK--the work of righteousness. What is righteous work? 1. Working by right law. God has established...
_Until the Spirit be poured upon us from on high_ SPIRITUAL INFLUENCES I. THERE IS PROVIDED IN CONNECTION WITH THE CHRISTIAN ECONOMY, THE BESTOWMENT OF SPIRITUAL INFLUENCES ON MANKIND. 1. In what ma...
_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...
PEACE THE WORK OF RIGHTEOUSNESS Isaiah 32:17. _The work of righteousness shall be peace; and the effect of righteousness quietness and assurance for ever_. A large part of the book of Isaiah is taken...
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 John 3:18; 1 John 4:17; 2 Corinthians 1:12; 2 Peter 1:10; 2 Pet