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.
Until the Spirit be poured upon us from on high. This can only partially apply to the spiritual revival in Hezekiah's time; its full accomplishment belongs to the Christian dispensation, first at Pentecost (Joel 2:28; Acts 2:17), perfectly in coming times (Psalms 104:30; Ezekiel 36:26; Ezekiel 39:29; Zechariah 12:10), when the Spirit shall be poured on Israel, and though it on the Gentiles (Micah 5:7).
And the wilderness be a fruitful field ... - when Judea, so long waste, shall be populous and fruitful, and the land of the enemies of God shall be desolate. Or, 'the field now fruitful shall be but as a barren forest in comparison with what it shall be then.' The barren shall become fruitful by regeneration: thee already regenerate shall bring forth fruits in such abundance that their former life shall seem but as a wilderness where no fruits were ('Queen Elizabeth's Bible'). I prefer the former view: cf. Isaiah 32:6, note. Hypocrites, who now are counted as a "fruitful field," shall then "be counted for a forest" - i:e., shall be manifested in their true unfruitfulness. Compare Isaiah 47:11: also Isaiah 29:17, note above.