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Isaiah 32:15-20

until the Spirit is poured on us from on high, and the wilderness becomes a fruitful field, and the fruitful field is considered a forest.

Then justice will dwell in the wilderness; and righteousness will remain in the fruitful field.

The work of righteousness will be peace, and the effect of righteousness, quietness and confidence forever.

My people will live in a peaceful habitation, in safe dwellings, and in quiet resting places,

though hail flattens the forest, and the city is leveled completely.

Blessed are you who sow beside all waters, who send out the feet of the ox and the donkey.

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  • WEB World English Bible

    until the Spirit is poured on us from on high, and the wilderness becomes a fruitful field, and the fruitful field is considered a forest.

    Then justice will dwell in the wilderness; and righteousness will remain in the fruitful field.

    The work of righteousness will be peace, and the effect of righteousness, quietness and confidence forever.

    My people will live in a peaceful habitation, in safe dwellings, and in quiet resting places,

    though hail flattens the forest, and the city is leveled completely.

    Blessed are you who sow beside all waters, who send out the feet of the ox and the donkey.

  • KJV King James Version

    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.

    Then judgment shall dwell in the wilderness, and righteousness remain in the fruitful field.

    And the work of righteousness shall be peace; and the effect of righteousness quietness and assurance for ever.

    And my people shall dwell in a peaceable habitation, and in sure dwellings, and in quiet resting places;

    When it shall hail, coming down on the forest; and the city shall be low in a low place.

    Blessed are ye that sow beside all waters, that send forth thither the feet of the ox and the ass.

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  • JPS JPS Tanakh (1917)

    Until the spirit be poured upon us from on high, and the wilderness become a fruitful field, and the fruitful field be counted for a forest.

    Then justice shall dwell in the wilderness, and righteousness shall abide in the fruitful field.

    And the work of righteousness shall be peace; and the effect of righteousness quietness and confidence for ever.

    And my people shall abide in a peaceable habitation, and in secure dwellings, and in quiet resting-places.

    And it shall hail, in the downfall of the forest; but the city shall descend into the valley.

    Happy are ye that sow beside all waters, that send forth freely the feet of the ox and the ass.

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Cross-references (104)

  • Isaiah 26:3 (v17) You will keep whoever’s mind is steadfast in perfect peace, because he trusts in you.
  • Isaiah 29:17 (v15) Isn’t it yet a very little while, and Lebanon will be turned into a fruitful field, and the fruitful field will be regarded as a forest?
  • Ezekiel 39:29 (vv15, 17) I won’t hide my face from them any more; for I have poured out my Spirit on the house of Israel,’ says the Lord Yahweh.”
  • Isaiah 44:3 (v15) For I will pour water on him who is thirsty, and streams on the dry ground. I will pour my Spirit on your descendants, and my blessing on…
  • Psalms 119:165 (v17) Those who love your law have great peace. Nothing causes them to stumble.
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  • Romans 14:17 (v17) for God’s Kingdom is not eating and drinking, but righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit.
  • Philippians 4:6-9 (v17) In nothing be anxious, but in everything, by prayer and petition with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God. And the peace…
  • James 3:17-18 (v17) But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceful, gentle, reasonable, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and…
  • Psalms 85:8 (v17) I will hear what God, Yahweh, will speak, for he will speak peace to his people, his saints; but let them not turn again to folly.
  • Luke 24:49 (v15) Behold, I send out the promise of my Father on you. But wait in the city of Jerusalem until you are clothed with power from on high.”
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  • Zechariah 2:5 (v18) For I,’ says Yahweh, ‘will be to her a wall of fire around it, and I will be the glory in the middle of her.
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  • Psalms 104:30 (v15) You send out your Spirit and they are created. You renew the face of the ground.
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  • Jeremiah 33:16 (v18) In those days Judah will be saved, and Jerusalem will dwell safely. This is the name by which she will be called: Yahweh our righteousness.”
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  • Jeremiah 23:5-6 (v18) “Behold, the days come,” says Yahweh, “that I will raise to David a righteous Branch, and he will reign as king and deal wisely, and will…
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  • Hebrews 4:9 (v18) There remains therefore a Sabbath rest for the people of God.
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  • Isaiah 55:10-11 (v20) For as the rain comes down and the snow from the sky, and doesn’t return there, but waters the earth, and makes it grow and bud, and gives…
  • Isaiah 66:12 (v17) For Yahweh says, “Behold, I will extend peace to her like a river, and the glory of the nations like an overflowing stream; and you will…
  • Ezekiel 37:21-22 (v17) Say to them, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “Behold, I will take the children of Israel from among the nations, where they have gone, and will…
  • Ezekiel 37:25 (v17) They will dwell in the land that I have given to Jacob my servant, in which your fathers lived. They will dwell therein, they, and their…
  • Zechariah 2:8 (v18) For Yahweh of Armies says: ‘For honor he has sent me to the nations which plundered you; for he who touches you touches the apple of his…
  • Zechariah 11:2 (v19) Wail, cypress tree, for the cedar has fallen, because the stately ones are destroyed. Wail, you oaks of Bashan, for the strong forest has…
  • Exodus 9:18-26 (v19) Behold, tomorrow about this time I will cause it to rain a very grievous hail, such as has not been in Egypt since the day it was founded…
  • Psalms 94:14-15 (v16) For Yahweh won’t reject his people, neither will he forsake his inheritance. For judgment will return to righteousness. All the upright in…
  • Isaiah 9:7 (v17) Of the increase of his government and of peace there shall be no end, on David’s throne, and on his kingdom, to establish it, and to uphold…
  • Isaiah 10:19 (v19) The remnant of the trees of his forest shall be few, so that a child could write their number.
  • Isaiah 14:22-23 (v19) “I will rise up against them,” says Yahweh of Armies, “and cut off from Babylon name and remnant, and son and son’s son,” says Yahweh. “I…
  • Isaiah 19:5-7 (v20) The waters will fail from the sea, and the river will be wasted and become dry. The rivers will become foul. The streams of Egypt will be…
  • Isaiah 24:10 (v19) The confused city is broken down. Every house is shut up, that no man may come in.
  • Isaiah 25:4 (v19) For you have been a stronghold to the poor, a stronghold to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shade from the heat, when…
  • Isaiah 27:10 (v19) For the fortified city is solitary, a habitation deserted and forsaken, like the wilderness. The calf will feed there, and there he will…
  • Isaiah 35:8 (v16) A highway will be there, a road, and it will be called “The Holy Way”. The unclean shall not pass over it, but it will be for those who…
  • Isaiah 37:24 (v19) By your servants, you have defied the Lord, and have said, “With the multitude of my chariots I have come up to the height of the…
  • Isaiah 42:4 (v16) He will not fail nor be discouraged, until he has set justice in the earth, and the islands wait for his law.”
  • Isaiah 54:1-3 (v15) “Sing, barren, you who didn’t give birth; break out into singing, and cry aloud, you who didn’t travail with child: for more are the…
  • Isaiah 56:6-8 (v16) Also the foreigners who join themselves to Yahweh to serve him, and to love Yahweh’s name, to be his servants, everyone who keeps the…
  • Isaiah 60:21 (v16) Then your people will all be righteous. They will inherit the land forever, the branch of my planting, the work of my hands, that I may be…
  • Ezekiel 13:11-13 (v19) Tell those who plaster it with whitewash that it will fall. There will be an overflowing shower; and you, great hailstones, will fall. A…
  • Hosea 3:5 (v16) Afterward the children of Israel shall return, and seek Yahweh their God, and David their king, and shall come with trembling to Yahweh and…
  • Nahum 1:1 (v19) A revelation about Nineveh. The book of the vision of Nahum the Elkoshite.
  • Nahum 1:8 (v19) But with an overflowing flood, he will make a full end of her place, and will pursue his enemies into darkness.
  • Nahum 2:10-13 (v19) She is empty, void, and waste. The heart melts, the knees knock together, their bodies and faces have grown pale. Where is the den of the…
  • Matthew 7:25 (v19) The rain came down, the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat on that house; and it didn’t fall, for it was founded on the rock.
  • Acts 2:41 (v20) Then those who gladly received his word were baptized. There were added that day about three thousand souls.
  • Acts 4:4 (v20) But many of those who heard the word believed, and the number of the men came to be about five thousand.
  • Acts 5:14 (v20) More believers were added to the Lord, multitudes of both men and women.
  • 1 Corinthians 3:6 (v20) I planted. Apollos watered. But God gave the increase.
  • 1 Corinthians 6:9-11 (v16) Or don’t you know that the unrighteous will not inherit God’s Kingdom? Don’t be deceived. Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor…
  • 1 Corinthians 9:9-11 (v20) For it is written in the law of Moses, “You shall not muzzle an ox while it treads out the grain.” Is it for the oxen that God cares, or…
  • Titus 2:11-12 (v16) For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation to all men, instructing us to the intent that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts,…
  • James 3:18 (v20) Now the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace by those who make peace.
  • 1 Peter 2:9-12 (v16) But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, that you may proclaim the excellence of…

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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain On vv15, 19, 20 The field which is now fruitful, shall be but…

The field which is now fruitful, shall be but as a barren forest in comparison of that it shall be then, as Isa. 29:17, which shall be fulfilled in Christ’s time, for then they that were before as the barren wilderness, being regenerate shall be fruitful, and they that had some beginning of godliness, shall bring forth fruits in such abundance, that their former life shall seem but as a wilderness where no fruits were.

That is, when the Church shall be restored: thus the Prophets, after they have denounced God’s judgments against the wicked, used to comfort the godly, lest they should faint.

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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain On vv15–20 Isa 32:15 Until the spirit be poured upon us…
Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain On vv15–20 Until the Spirit be poured upon us from on…
John Gill 1763 · Public Domain On vv15–20 Until the Spirit be poured upon us from on…
John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain On vv15, 16, 17, 19, 20 Until - Until the time come, in which God…
Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain On vv15, 17, 19, 20 Verse 15. And the fruitful field] והכרמל vehaccarmel. So…
Joseph Benson 1811 · Public Domain On vv15, 16, 19, 20 Isa 32:15. Until the Spirit be poured upon us,…
Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain On vv15–20 Until the Spirit - The Spirit of God, as…
Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain On vv15, 17, 19, 20 High, as Ezechiel (xxxvii. 10.) saw the dry bones…
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain On vv15–20 This can only partially apply to the spiritual revival…
Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain On vv15, 18, 19, 20 15-17. Until the Spirit be poured upon us —…
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain On vv15, 16, 17, 19, 20 15. At last the great transformation of all things…
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain On vv15, 16, 19, 20 (15) Until the spirit be poured upon us from…
The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain On vv15, 16, 17, 19, 20 Until. The expression "until" modifies the previous "forever," showing…
The Biblical Illustrator 1887 · Public Domain On vv15, 17, 18, 20 Until the Spirit be poured upon us from on…
The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary 1892 · Public Domain On vv17, 18, 20 Isa_32:17. The work of righteousness shall be peace; and…
unfoldingWord translationNotes 2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0 On vv16, 19 General Information:
Tyndale Open Study Notes 2022 · CC BY-SA 4.0 On vv15, 17, 18, 19 32:15 The Spirit would transform the nation into a…
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