God’s Word Translation
Isaiah 32:15
15until the Spirit is poured on us from on high. Then the wilderness will be turned into a fertile field, and the fertile field will be considered a forest.
Isaiah 32:15 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)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.
- New International Version (NIV)till the Spirit is poured on us from on high, and the desert becomes a fertile field, and the fertile field seems like a forest.
- English Standard Version (ESV)until the Spirit is poured upon us from on high, and the wilderness becomes a fruitful field, and the fruitful field is deemed a forest.
- New King James Version (NKJV)Until the Spirit is poured upon us from on high, And the wilderness becomes a fruitful field, And the fruitful field is counted as a forest.
Context of Isaiah 32:15
13Mourn for my people’s land where thorns and briars will grow. Mourn for all the happy homes in a joyful city. 14Palaces will be deserted. Noisy cities will be abandoned. Fortresses and watchtowers will become permanent caves. They will be a delight for wild donkeys and pastures for flocks until the Spirit is poured on us from on high. Then the wilderness will be turned into a fertile field, and the fertile field will be considered a forest. 16Then justice will live in the wilderness, and righteousness will be at home in the fertile field. 17Then an act of righteousness will bring about peace, calm, and safety forever.
Read all of Isaiah 32Isaiah 32:15 word by word
עַד־יֵ֨עָרֶ֥ה עָלֵ֛ינוּ ר֖וּחַ מִמָּר֑וֹם וְהָיָ֤ה מִדְבָּר֙ לַכַּרְמֶ֔ל וְהַכַּרְמֶ֖ל לַיַּ֥עַר יֵחָשֵֽׁב׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
- Until the spiritרוּחַrûach · spiritH7307
- be pouredעָרָה‛ârâh · to uncoverH6168
- upon us from on highמָרוֹםmârôm · heightH4791
- and the wildernessמִדְבָּרmidbâr · wildernessH4057
- be a fruitful fieldכַּרְמֶלkarmel · plantationH3759
- be countedחָשַׁבchâshab · to devise: thinkH2803
- for a forestיַ֫עַרya‛ar · woodH3293
Cross-references for Isaiah 32:15
- Isaiah 11:2The Spirit of the Lord will rest on him— the Spirit of wisdom and understanding, the Spirit of advice and power, the Spirit of knowledge and fear of the Lord.
- Isaiah 44:3I will pour water on thirsty ground and rain on dry land. I will pour my Spirit on your offspring and my blessing on your descendants.
- Isaiah 45:8Rain down from above, you heavens, and pour down righteousness, you skies. Let the earth open. Let salvation and righteousness sprout. Let them spring up. I, the Lord, have created them.
- Isaiah 59:19The people of the west will fear the name of the Lord. Those in the east will fear his glory. He will come like a rushing stream. The wind of the Lord pushes him.
- Isaiah 63:11Then his people remembered Moses and the distant past. Where is the one who brought them out of the sea with the shepherds of his flock? Where is the one who put his Holy Spirit in them?
- Psalms 104:30You send out your Spirit, and they are created. You renew the face of the earth.
- Psalms 107:33He changes rivers into a desert, springs into thirsty ground,
- Proverbs 1:23“Turn to me when I warn you. I will generously pour out my spirit for you. I will make my words known to you.
- Ezekiel 39:29I will no longer hide my face from them, because I will pour out my Spirit on the nation of Israel, declares the Almighty Lord.”
- Joel 2:28“After this, I will pour my Spirit on everyone. Your sons and daughters will prophesy. Your old men will dream dreams. Your young men will see visions.
- Zechariah 12:10“I will pour out the Spirit of blessing and mercy on David’s family and on those who live in Jerusalem. They will look at me, whom they have stabbed. Then they will mourn for him as one mourns for an only son, and they will cry bitterly for him as one cries for a firstborn son.
- Luke 24:49“I’m sending you what my Father promised. Wait here in the city until you receive power from heaven.”
- John 7:39Jesus said this about the Spirit, whom his believers would receive. The Spirit was not yet evident, as it would be after Jesus had been glorified.
- Acts 2:17‘In the last days, God says, I will pour my Spirit on everyone. Your sons and daughters will speak what God has revealed. Your young men will see visions. Your old men will dream dreams.
- 2 Corinthians 3:8Won’t the ministry that brings the Spirit have even more glory?
- Isaiah 29:17In a very short time Lebanon will be turned into a fertile field and the fertile field will be considered a forest.
Commentaries on Isaiah 32:15
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 15And the fruitful field - והכרמל vehaccarmel . So fifteen MSS., six ancient, and two editions; which seems to make the noun an appellative.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 15Until the Spirit - The Spirit of God, as the source of all blessings, and especially as able to meet and remove the ills of the long calamity and desolation. This evidently refers to some future period, when the evils which the prophet was contemplating would be succeeded by the spread of the true religion. If the prophet meant to confine his description of calamities to those which would attend the invasion of Sennacherib, then this refers to the piety…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 9-20Verses 9-20 When there was so much provocation given to the holy God, bad times might be expected. Alas! how many careless ones there are, who support self-indulgence by shameful niggardliness! We deserve to be deprived of the supports of life, when we make them the food of lusts. Let such tremble and be troubled. Blessed times shall be brought in by the pouring out of the Spirit from on high; then, and not till then, there will be good times. The present…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 15The Spirit will change the nation into a godly community, starting a time of justice and righteousness (see also Joel 2:28–32). The Spirit is connected to the Messiah, God's chosen one (Isaiah 11:1) and the servant (42:1; 61:1). desert … orchard: When the people are transformed, nature will be too.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 9-209-20. Address to the women of Jerusalem who troubled themselves little about the political signs of the times, but lived a life of self-indulgence (Is 3:16-23); the failure of food through the devastations of the enemy is here foretold, being what was most likely to affect them as mothers of families, heretofore accustomed to every luxury. Vitringa understands "women--daughters" as the cities and villages of Judea (Eze 16:1-63). See Am 6:1.Read the comment
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Commentaries on Isaiah 32
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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