Isaiah:32

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* Behold , (note :)This prophecy is of Hezekiah , who was a figure of Christ , and therefore it should chiefly be referred to him .(:note ) a king shall reign in righteousness , and princes shall By judgment and justice is meant an upright government , both in policy and religion . rule in judgment . * 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 (note :)Where men are weary with travelling for lack of water .(:note ) a weary land . * And the eyes of (note :)He promises to give the true light which is the pure doctrine of God 's word , and understanding , and zeal of the same , are contrary to the threatenings against the wicked , ( Isa_6:9 , Isa_29:10 ).(:note ) them that see shall not be dim , and the ears of them that hear shall hearken . * And the heart of the foolish shall vnderstand knowledge , and the tongue of the stutters shalbe ready to speake distinctly . * The (note :)Vice will no more be called virtue , nor virtue esteemed by power and riches .(:note ) vile person shall be no more called noble , nor the churl said [to be ] bountiful . * But the nigarde will speake of nigardnesse , and his heart will worke iniquitie , and do wickedly , and speake falsely against the Lorde , to make emptie the hungrie soule , and to cause the drinke of the thirstie to faile . * For the weapons of the churle are wicked : hee deuiseth wicked counsels , to vndoe the poore with lying words : and to speake against the poore in iudgement . * But the liberall man will deuise of liberall things , and he will continue his liberalitie . * Rise up , ye women that are at ease ; hear my voice , ye (note :)He prophecies of such calamity to come that they will not spare the women and children , and therefore wills them to take heed and provide .(:note ) careless daughters ; give ear to my speech . * Many days and years shall ye be troubled , (note :)Meaning that the affliction would continue long and when one year was past , yet they should look for new plagues .(:note ) ye careless women : God will take from you the means and opportunities , which made you contemn him : that is , abundance of worldly goods . for the vintage shall fail , the gathering shall not come . * Yee women , that are at ease , be astonied : feare , O yee carelesse women : put off the clothes : make bare , and girde sackcloth vpon the loynes . * They shall lament for the (note :)By the breasts he means the plentiful fields , by which men are nourished as children with the breast : or , the mothers for sorrow and heaviness will lack milk .(:note ) breasts , for the pleasant fields , for the fruitful vine . * Vpon the lande of my people shall growe thornes and briers : yea , vpon all the houses of ioye in the citie of reioysing , * Because the palace shalbe forsaken , and the noise of the citie shalbe left : the towre and fortresse shalbe dennes for euer , &amp ; the delite of wilde asses , and a pasture for flockes , * Until the (note :)That is , when the Church will be restored , thus the prophets after they have denounced God 's judgments against the wicked , used to comfort the godly , lest they should faint .(:note ) spirit shall be poured upon us from on high , and the wilderness shall be a fruitful field , and the The field which is now fruitful , will be but as a barren forest in comparison to what it will be then as in ( Isa_29:17 ) which will be fulfilled in Christ 's time , for then they who were before as the barren wilderness , being regenerate will be fruitful and they who had some beginning of godliness , will bring forth fruit in such abundance , that their former life will seem but as a wilderness where no fruit was . fruitful field shall be counted for a forest . * And iudgement shal dwel in the desert , and iustice shall remaine in the fruitfull fielde . * And the worke of iustice shall bee peace , euen the worke of iustice and quietnesse , and assurance for euer . * And my people shall dwell in the tabernacle of peace , and in sure dwellings , and in safe resting places . * When it shall hail , coming down on the forest ; and the (note :)They will not need to build it in high places for fear of the enemy : for God will defend it , and turn away the storms from hurting their conveniences .(:note ) city shall be low in a low place . * Blessed [are ] ye (note :)That is , upon fat ground and well watered , which brings forth in abundance , or in places which before were covered with waters , and now made dry for your uses .(:note ) that sow beside all waters , that The fields will be so rank , that they will send out their cattle to eat up the first crop , which abundance will be signs of God 's love and favour toward them . send forth [there ] the feet of the ox and the donkey .

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