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Isaiah 32:13
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for the ground of my peoplegrowing thorns and briers,indeed, for every joyous house in the jubilant city.
On the land of my people shall come up thorns and briers; yes, on all the houses of joy in the joyous city.
Upon the land of my people shall come up thorns and briers; yea, upon all the houses of joy in the joyous city:
for the soil of my people growing up in thorns and briers, yes, for all the joyous houses in the exultant city.
For the land of my people in which thorns and briars will come up; Indeed, for all the joyful houses and for the jubilant city.
Cry for the land of my people, in which only thorns and weeds now grow. Cry for the city that once was happy and for all the houses that once were filled with joy.
For the land of my people growing over with thorns and briars— Yes, [mourn] for all the houses of joy in the joyous city.
On the land of my people shall come up thorns and briers; yes, on all the houses of joy in the joyous city.
Vpon the lande of my people shall growe thornes and briers: yea, vpon all the houses of ioye in the citie of reioysing,
For the land of my people in which thorns and briars shall come up,Indeed, against all the joyful houses and the exultant city.
and for the land of my people, overgrown with thorns and briers-even for every house of merriment in this city of revelry.
and to the happy homes in Jerusalem. The land of my people is covered with thorns.
for the land of my people, producing thorns and briars, for all the happy homes in the joyful city.
Upon the land of my people shall come up thistles [and] briars, yea, upon all the houses of joy in the joyous city.
Cry for the land of my people. Cry because only thorns and weeds will grow there. Cry for the city and for all the houses that were once filled with joy.
Upon the land of my people shall grow up thorns and briers; yea, upon all the houses of mirth in the mighty city;
and thorn bushes and briers are growing on my people's land. Weep for all the houses where people were happy and for the city that was full of life.
over the soil of my people. It goes up in thorns and briers, indeed over all of the houses of joy in the jubilant city.
Thorns and briers shall spring up on the land of My people; even over all the houses of joy in the jubilant city,
My peoples felde shal bringe thornes and thistels, for in euery house is voluptuousnes & in the cities, wilfulnes.
Upon the land of my people shall come up thorns and briers; yea, upon all the houses of joy in the joyous city.
And for the land of my people, where thorns will come up; even for all the houses of joy in the glad town.
For the land of my people whereon thorns and briers come up; yea, for all the houses of joy and the joyous city.
Upon the land of my people shall come vp thornes, and briars, yea vpon all the houses of ioy in the ioyous citie.
My peoples fielde shall bryng thornes and thistles: and so shall it be in euery house of voluptuousnesse, and in euery citie that reioyceth.
As for the land of my people, the thorn and grass shall come upon it, and joy shall be removed from every house.
Upon the land of my people shall come up thorns and briers; yea, upon all the houses of joy in the joyous city:
Thornes and breris schulen stie on the erthe of my puple; hou myche more on alle the housis of ioie of the citee makynge ful out ioie?
On the land of my people thorns and briers shall come up; yes, on all the houses of joy in the joyous city.
Upon the land of my people shall come up thorns [and] briers; also, upon all the houses of joy [in] the joyous city:
Mourn over the land of my people, which is overgrown with thorns and briers, and over all the once-happy houses in the city filled with revelry.
On the land of my people will come up thorns and briers, Yes, on all the happy homes in the joyous city;
For your land will be overgrown with thorns and briers. Your joyful homes and happy towns will be gone.
and for the land of my people in which thorns and thistles will come up. Yes, be sorry for all the houses of joy, and for the happy city,
for the soil of my people growing up in thorns and briers; yes, for all the joyous houses in the jubilant city.
Over the soil of my people, thorns and briars shall grow, - Yea over all houses of joy, thou city exultant!
Upon the land of my people shall thorns and briers come up: how much more upon all the houses of joy, of the city that rejoiced?
for the soil of my people growing up in thorns and briers; yea, for all the joyous houses in the joyful city.
Over the ground of my people thorn -- brier goeth up, Surely over all houses of joy of the exulting city,
For the land of my people in which thorns and briars shall come up; Yea, for all the joyful houses and for the jubilant city.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
come: Isaiah 6:11, Isaiah 7:23, Isaiah 34:13, Psalms 107:34, Hosea 9:6, Hosea 10:8
yea, upon: or, burning upon, etc. Jeremiah 39:8, Revelation 18:7, Revelation 18:8
in the: Isaiah 22:2, Isaiah 22:12, Isaiah 22:13
Reciprocal: Genesis 3:18 - Thorns Leviticus 26:32 - And I Isaiah 5:6 - I will lay Isaiah 24:1 - maketh the Isaiah 27:10 - there shall the Jeremiah 52:27 - Thus Lamentations 5:18 - the foxes Ezekiel 6:6 - the cities Hosea 2:3 - as Hosea 2:12 - I will Joel 1:6 - my Micah 6:9 - Lord's
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So his gifts went before him while he settled down for the night in the camp.
Jacob said, "Please. If you can find it in your heart to welcome me, accept these gifts. When I saw your face, it was as the face of God smiling on me. Accept the gifts I have brought for you. God has been good to me and I have more than enough." Jacob urged the gifts on him and Esau accepted.
Joseph was running the country; he was the one who gave out rations to all the people. When Joseph's brothers arrived, they treated him with honor, bowing to him. Joseph recognized them immediately, but treated them as strangers and spoke roughly to them. He said, "Where do you come from?" "From Canaan," they said. "We've come to buy food."
Their father Israel gave in. "If it has to be, it has to be. But do this: stuff your packs with the finest products from the land you can find and take them to the man as gifts—some balm and honey, some spices and perfumes, some pistachios and almonds. And take plenty of money—pay back double what was returned to your sacks; that might have been a mistake. Take your brother and get going. Go back to the man. And may The Strong God give you grace in that man's eyes so that he'll send back your other brother along with Benjamin. For me, nothing's left; I've lost everything."
When Joseph got home, they presented him with the gifts they had brought and bowed respectfully before him.
To Fight God's Battles Samuel died. The whole country came to his funeral. Everyone grieved over his death, and he was buried in his hometown of Ramah. Meanwhile, David moved again, this time to the wilderness of Maon. There was a certain man in Maon who carried on his business in the region of Carmel. He was very prosperous—three thousand sheep and a thousand goats, and it was sheep-shearing time in Carmel. The man's name was Nabal (Fool), a Calebite, and his wife's name was Abigail. The woman was intelligent and good-looking, the man brutish and mean. David, out in the backcountry, heard that Nabal was shearing his sheep and sent ten of his young men off with these instructions: "Go to Carmel and approach Nabal. Greet him in my name, ‘Peace! Life and peace to you. Peace to your household, peace to everyone here! I heard that it's sheep-shearing time. Here's the point: When your shepherds were camped near us we didn't take advantage of them. They didn't lose a thing all the time they were with us in Carmel. Ask your young men—they'll tell you. What I'm asking is that you be generous with my men—share the feast! Give whatever your heart tells you to your servants and to me, David your son.'" David's young men went and delivered his message word for word to Nabal. Nabal tore into them, "Who is this David? Who is this son of Jesse? The country is full of runaway servants these days. Do you think I'm going to take good bread and wine and meat freshly butchered for my sheepshearers and give it to men I've never laid eyes on? Who knows where they've come from?" David's men got out of there and went back and told David what he had said. David said, "Strap on your swords!" They all strapped on their swords, David and his men, and set out, four hundred of them. Two hundred stayed behind to guard the camp. Meanwhile, one of the young shepherds told Abigail, Nabal's wife, what had happened: "David sent messengers from the backcountry to salute our master, but he tore into them with insults. Yet these men treated us very well. They took nothing from us and didn't take advantage of us all the time we were in the fields. They formed a wall around us, protecting us day and night all the time we were out tending the sheep. Do something quickly because big trouble is ahead for our master and all of us. Nobody can talk to him. He's impossible—a real brute!" Abigail flew into action. She took two hundred loaves of bread, two skins of wine, five sheep dressed out and ready for cooking, a bushel of roasted grain, a hundred raisin cakes, and two hundred fig cakes, and she had it all loaded on some donkeys. Then she said to her young servants, "Go ahead and pave the way for me. I'm right behind you." But she said nothing to her husband Nabal. As she was riding her donkey, descending into a ravine, David and his men were descending from the other end, so they met there on the road. David had just said, "That sure was a waste, guarding everything this man had out in the wild so that nothing he had was lost—and now he rewards me with insults. A real slap in the face! May God do his worst to me if Nabal and every cur in his misbegotten brood aren't dead meat by morning!" As soon as Abigail saw David, she got off her donkey and fell on her knees at his feet, her face to the ground in homage, saying, "My master, let me take the blame! Let me speak to you. Listen to what I have to say. Don't dwell on what that brute Nabal did. He acts out the meaning of his name: Nabal, Fool. Foolishness oozes from him. "I wasn't there when the young men my master sent arrived. I didn't see them. And now, my master, as God lives and as you live, God has kept you from this avenging murder—and may your enemies, all who seek my master's harm, end up like Nabal! Now take this gift that I, your servant girl, have brought to my master, and give it to the young men who follow in the steps of my master.
Receiving a gift is like getting a rare gemstone; any way you look at it, you see beauty refracted.
A gift gets attention; it buys the attention of eminent people.
Lots of people flock around a generous person; everyone's a friend to the philanthropist.
A quietly given gift soothes an irritable person; a heartfelt present cools a hot temper.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Upon the land of my people shall come up thorns [and] briers,.... The curse of the earth, the spontaneous productions of it, being uncultivated, and this through want of men, they being destroyed or carried captive by the enemy; this is to be understood of the land of Judea, and not Samaria, as Aben Ezra; where the professing and covenant people of God dwelt; which is mentioned to show the apostasy of this people, for which ruin came upon their land, and the aggravation of it, as well as the goodness of God to them, which continued to the last, still considering them as his people. This respects not the desolation of the country by the Assyrian army, nor by the Chaldeans, but rather by the Romans, even their last destruction:
yea, upon all the houses of joy [in] the joyous city; not Samaria, the head of the ten tribes, as some; but Jerusalem, the joy of the whole earth, as Jarchi; and the "houses of joy" in it mean not public houses, as taverns, and the like, where persons meet to revel and carouse, but the houses of nobles, princes, and rich men, who lived voluptuously, in great sensuality and carnal mirth, drinking wine in bowls, and chanting to the sound of the viol, and using all instruments of music; but now their houses, in which they enjoyed so much pleasure, should be demolished, and briers and thorns should grow upon the spot where they stood. Some render the word ××, "burning", as in Isaiah 3:24 "burning shall be on all the houses" o, c. and think it refers to the burning of the city of Jerusalem, and the palaces or houses of nobles and rich men in it, which was done both by the Chaldeans and by the Romans.
o Junius & Tremellius, Cocceius.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Upon the land of my people - A description similar to this, in regard to the consequences of the invasion of Sennacherib, is given in Isaiah 7:20-25 (see the notes at that passage).
Yea, upon all the houses of joy - Margin, âBurning upon.â The marginal readling has originated from the supposition that the word ×× kıÌy is derived from ××× kaÌvaÌh, âto be burned.â This conjecture has been adopted by Junius and Tremellius, and by some others. But it is evidently mere conjecture, and is not demanded. The word âyeaâ will express the sense, meaning that desolation, indicated by the growth of thorns and briers, would come upon the cities that were then filled with joy. This does not refer to Jerusalem, which was not taken by Sennacherib, but to the other cities that were destroyed by him in his march, and this account accords with the statement in Isaiah 7:20-25.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Isaiah 32:13. Shall come up thorns and briers - "The thorn and the brier shall come up"] All the ancient Versions read ×ש××ר veshamir, with the conjunction. And an ancient MS. has תע×× ×× taaleh bo, "shall come up in it," which seems to be right; or rather ×× bah: and there is a rasure in the place of ×× bo in another ancient MS.
Yea, upon all the houses of joy — For ×× ki, the ancient Versions, except the Vulgate, seem to have read × ve. ×× ki may perhaps be a mistake for ×× bo, or ×× bah, in it, above mentioned. It is not necessary in this place.
The description of impending distress which begins at Isaiah 32:13 belongs to other times than that of Sennacherib's invasion, from which they were so soon delivered. It must at least extend to the ruin of the country and city by the Chaldeans. And the promise of blessings which follows was not fulfilled under the Mosaic dispensation; they belong to the KINGDOM of Messiah. Compare Isaiah 32:15 with Isaiah 29:17, and see the note there.
