Isaiah 32
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Lutheran reading notes
In Isaiah chapter 32, the prophetic message continues to reveal themes of judgment, repentance, messianic hope, and restoration. Lutheran interpretation often emphasizes the contrast between divine law, which exposes sin, and the promise of grace through God's future redemption. The chapter illustrates both warning and hope within God's covenant relationship.
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Behold, a king shall reign in righteousness, and princes shall rule in judgment.
Isaiah 32:1 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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And a man shall be as an hiding place from the wind, and a covert from the tempest; as rivers of water in a dry place, as the shadow of a great rock in a weary land. {great: Heb. heavy}
Isaiah 32:2 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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And the eyes of them that see shall not be dim, and the ears of them that hear shall hearken.
Isaiah 32:3 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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The heart also of the rash shall understand knowledge, and the tongue of the stammerers shall be ready to speak plainly. {rash: Heb. hasty} {plainly: or, elegantly}
Isaiah 32:4 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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The vile person shall be no more called liberal, nor the churl said {to be} bountiful.
Isaiah 32:5 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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For the vile person will speak villany, and his heart will work iniquity, to practise hypocrisy, and to utter error against the LORD, to make empty the soul of the hungry, and he will cause the drink of the thirsty to fail.
Isaiah 32:6 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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The instruments also of the churl {are} evil: he deviseth wicked devices to destroy the poor with lying words, even when the needy speaketh right. {the needy...: or, he speaketh against the poor in judgment}
Isaiah 32:7 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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But the liberal deviseth liberal things; and by liberal things shall he stand. {stand: or, be established}
Isaiah 32:8 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Rise up, ye women that are at ease; hear my voice, ye careless daughters; give ear unto my speech.
Isaiah 32:9 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Many days and years shall ye be troubled, ye careless women: for the vintage shall fail, the gathering shall not come. {Many...: Heb. Days above a year}
Isaiah 32:10 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Tremble, ye women that are at ease; be troubled, ye careless ones: strip you, and make you bare, and gird {sackcloth} upon {your} loins.
Isaiah 32:11 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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They shall lament for the teats, for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine. {pleasant...: Heb. fields of desire}
Isaiah 32:12 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Upon the land of my people shall come up thorns {and} briers; yea, upon all the houses of joy {in} the joyous city: {yea...: or, burning upon}
Isaiah 32:13 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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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; {forts...: or, clifts and watchtowers}
Isaiah 32:14 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Until the spirit be poured upon us from on high, and the wilderness be a fruitful field, and the fruitful field be counted for a forest.
Isaiah 32:15 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Then judgment shall dwell in the wilderness, and righteousness remain in the fruitful field.
Isaiah 32:16 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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And the work of righteousness shall be peace; and the effect of righteousness quietness and assurance for ever.
Isaiah 32:17 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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And my people shall dwell in a peaceable habitation, and in sure dwellings, and in quiet resting places;
Isaiah 32:18 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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When it shall hail, coming down on the forest; and the city shall be low in a low place. {low in...: or, utterly abased}
Isaiah 32:19 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Blessed {are} ye that sow beside all waters, that send forth {thither} the feet of the ox and the ass.
Isaiah 32:20 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.