Isaiah 32:18

The Holy Bible, Berean Study Bible

Contextual Overview

⁹Stand up, you complacent women; listen to me. Give ear to my word, you overconfident daughters. ¹⁰In a little more than a year you will tremble, O secure ones. For the grape harvest will fail and the fruit harvest will not arrive. ¹¹Shudder, you ladies of leisure; tremble, you daughters of complacency. Strip yourselves bare and put sackcloth around your waists. ¹²Beat your breasts for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vines, ¹³and for the land of my people, overgrown with thorns and briers-even for every house of merriment in this city of revelry. ¹⁴For the palace will be forsaken, the busy city abandoned. The hill and the watchtower will become caves forever-the delight of wild donkeys and a pasture for flocks- ¹⁵until the Spirit is poured out upon us from on high. Then the desert will be an orchard, and the orchard will seem like a forest. ¹⁶Then justice will inhabit the wilderness, and righteousness will dwell in the fertile field. ¹⁷The work of righteousness will be peace; the service of righteousness will be quiet confidence forever. ¹⁸Then my people will dwell in a peaceful place, in safe and secure places of rest.

Bible Verse Review
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Isaiah 33:20-22, Isaiah 35:9, Isaiah 35:10, Isaiah 60:17, Isaiah 60:18, Jeremiah 23:5, Jeremiah 23:6, Jeremiah 33:16, Ezekiel 34:25, Ezekiel 34:26, Hosea 2:18-23, Zechariah 2:5, Zechariah 2:8, Hebrews 4:9, 1 John 4:16

Reciprocal: Exodus 9:26 - General Proverbs 24:15 - spoil Isaiah 4:5 - upon every Isaiah 4:6 - for a covert Isaiah 11:10 - his rest Isaiah 14:3 - General Isaiah 25:4 - when Isaiah 26:20 - enter Isaiah 28:17 - and the hail Isaiah 32:2 - an hiding Isaiah 33:16 - shall dwell 1 Timothy 4:8 - having

Cross-References

Genesis 32:4
He instructed them, "You are to say to my master Esau, 'Your servant Jacob says: I have been staying with Laban and have remained there until now.

Genesis 32:5
I have oxen, donkeys, flocks, menservants, and maidservants. I have sent this message to inform my master, so that I may find favor in your sight.'"

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And my people shall dwell in a peaceable habitation,.... Jews and Gentiles, and all the saints, shall dwell in peace and love one with another, and shall be free from all the outrages and persecutions of the enemy; which, when these happy times of the pouring forth of the Spirit and of the spiritual reign of Christ come, will be no more:

and in sure dwellings; where they may dwell safely and confidently, secure from all enemies, in no fear of them, and free from all hurt and danger by them:

and in quiet resting places; where they may sleep and rest quietly, and none to disturb them, and make them afraid: and though all this may be understood of their private houses and habitations, yet may well enough be applied to the several Christian communities and churches to which they belong; where they shall enjoy much spiritual prosperity and safety, great peace and quietness, comfort and rest, under the ministry of the word, and administration of ordinances.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

And my people shall dwell in a peaceable habitation - In cities and towns that would not be alarmed bv internal or external foes.

And in sure dwellings - In dwellings that would be secure from invasion. - All this is descriptive of the peaceful times, and the general security which followed the return from Babylon. To this period of happiness and prosperity, Isaiah, as well as the other prophets, often refers.