Isaiah 32:12 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ They shall lament for the teats, for the pleasante fields, for the fruitful vine. ”

Isaiah 32:12 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

They shall lament for the teats - Interpreters have been not a little perplexed by this expression. Lowth supposes it is to be taken in connection with the previous verse, and that it denotes tha...
Isaiah 32:12 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

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, t...
Isaiah 32:12 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

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 fa...
Isaiah 32:12 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

pleasant fields =fields of desire. Figure of speech. Enallage . App-6
Isaiah 32:12 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

12. Mourning over the breasts. This verse is explained in various ways. Some understand it to mean simply, that there will be so great a scarcity of provisions, that women will lose their mi...
Isaiah 32:12 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

They shall lament for the teats, for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine. They shall lament - for the pleasant fields "Mourn ye for the pleasant field" - The Septuagint, Syriac, and Vulgate re...
Isaiah 32:12 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

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...
Isaiah 32:12 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

They shall lament for the teats, for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine. They shall lament for the teats, for the pleasant fields - `They shall smite on their breasts in lamentation f...
Isaiah 32:12 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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 32:12 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

They shall lament for the teats... — Better, shall smite upon the breasts. The Hebrew nouns for “teats” and “fields,” Shâdaim and Sadè, have an assonance which may be represented by the Latin...
Isaiah 32:12 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

CHAPTER XVI ISAIAH TO WOMEN DATE UNCERTAIN Isaiah 32:9-20 THE date of this prophecy, which has been appended to those spoken by Isaiah during the Egyptian intrigues (704-702), is not certain....
Isaiah 32:12 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

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 32:12 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

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 ref...
Isaiah 32:12 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

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...
Isaiah 32:12 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

They shall lament for the teats ,.... Either of the beasts of the field, that should be dried up, and give no milk, through the great drought that should be upon the land; or through the waste of th...
Isaiah 32:12 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

They shall lament for the teats, for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine. Ver. 12. They shall mourn for the teats. ] That is, for their grain and wine. The heathens called Ceres their god...
Isaiah 32:12 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Rise up , &c. The prophet, to show the sinners and hypocrites in Zion , ( Isaiah 33:14 ,) that they must not expect to receive blessings from God, such as he had just now predicted, while the...
Isaiah 32:12 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Joyful Prospects. B. C. 726. 9 Rise up, ye women that are at ease; hear my voice, ye c...
Isaiah 32:12 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

They shall lament for the teats; either, 1. Properly, because through famine your teats are destitute of milk for the nourishment of your poor children. Or rather, 2. Metaphorically, as the fol...
Isaiah 32:12 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Life As It Will Be Before The King Comes In Terms of Careless Women At Ease ( Isaiah 32:9-14 ). Isaiah showed neither fear nor favour. He was as ready to draw attention to the sins of the womenfol...
Isaiah 32:12 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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 thron...
Isaiah 32:12 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

SECTION VIII . A PROPHECY OF MESSIAH 'S KINGDOM ( Isaiah 32:1-23 ). EXPOSITION Isaiah 32:1-23 A PROPHECY OF MESSIAH 'S KINGDOM . It is generally allowed that this prophecy...
Isaiah 32:12 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Desolation and Restoration
Isaiah 32:12 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Deuteronomy 11:11 ; Deuteronomy 11:12 ; Deuteronomy 8:7 ; Deuteronomy 8:8 ; Ezekiel 20:15 ; Ezekiel 20:6 ; Lamentations 2:11 ; Lamentations 4:3 ; Lamentations 4:4
Isaiah 32:12 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

The teats — For the pleasant and fruitful fields, which like teats yielded you plentiful and excellent nourishment.

Isaiah 32:12 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Isaiah 32:12 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Isaiah 32:12 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Isaiah 32:12 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Isaiah 32:12 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Isaiah 32:12 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Isaiah 32:12 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Isaiah 32:12 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Isaiah 32:12 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Isaiah 32:12 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Isaiah 32:12 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Isaiah 32:12 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Isaiah 32:12 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Isaiah 32:12 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Isaiah 32:12 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Isaiah 32:12 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Isaiah 32:12 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Isaiah 32:12 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Isaiah 32:12 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Isaiah 32:12 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Isaiah 32:12 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Isaiah 32:12 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Isaiah 32:12 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Isaiah 32:12 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Isaiah 32:12 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes