32:1 Behold, a a king shall reign in righteousness, and
princes shall b rule in judgment.
(a) This prophecy is of Hezekiah, who was a figure of
Christ, and therefore it should chiefly be referred to
him.
(b) By judgment and justice is meant an upright government,
both in policy and religion.
32:2 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 c a weary land.
(c) Where men are weary with travelling for lack of water.
32:3 And the eyes of d them that see shall not be dim, and the
ears of them that hear shall hearken.
(d) 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 6:9,29:10).
32:5 The e vile person shall be no more called noble, nor the
churl said [to be] bountiful.
(e) Vice will no more be called virtue, nor virtue esteemed
by power and riches.
32:9 Rise up, ye women that are at ease; hear my voice, ye f
careless daughters; give ear to my speech.
(f) 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.
32:10 Many days and years shall ye be troubled, g ye careless
women: h for the vintage shall fail, the gathering shall
not come.
(g) Meaning that the affliction would continue long and
when one year was past, yet they should look for new
plagues.
(h) God will take from you the means and opportunities,
which made you contemn him: that is, abundance of
worldly goods.
32:12 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, the
mothers for sorrow and heaviness will lack milk.
32:15 Until the k spirit shall be poured upon us from on high,
and the wilderness shall be a fruitful field, and the
l fruitful field shall be counted for a forest.
(k) 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.
(l) 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.
32:19 When it shall hail, coming down on the forest; and the m
city shall be low in a low place.
(m) 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.
32:20 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 places which before
were covered with waters, and now made dry for your
uses.
(o) 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.
