Isaiah 32:10
in Isaiah 32In 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.
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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
For days beyond a year shall ye be troubled, ye careless women; for the vintage shall fail, the ingathering shall not come.
KJV
Many days and years shall ye be troubled, ye careless women: for the vintage shall fail, the gathering shall not come.
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This verse in Isaiah 32
Commentary
9 notes on this verseA commentator
Albert Barnes1798–1870
Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)
Many days and years - Margin, ‘Days above a year.’ This is a literal translation of the Hebrew. Septuagint, ‘Make mention of a day of a year in sorrow, with hope.’ Targum, ‘Days with years.’ Kimchi supposes it means ‘two years.’ Grotius supposes it means ‘within three years.’ Various other interpretations may be seen in Poole’s Synopsis. Gesenius renders it, ‘For a year’s time,’ according to the common expression ‘a year and a day,’ denoting a complete year, and supposes that it means a considerable time, a long period.
This site's exposition
Stand up, you complacent women
on Isaiah 32:9-11
The prophet turns to the women of Jerusalem, "complacent women", "overconfident daughters", and tells them to tremble and "put sackcloth around your waists". Trouble is near, "In a little more than a year you will tremble". The older commentators tie this to the Assyrian ruin of Judah’s countryside.
This site's exposition
In a little more than a year
The secure women have little more than a year before they tremble. Only the grape harvest and the fruit harvest are named. Jamieson, Fausset & Brown took the wheat to be gathered already, so the enemy would arrive when grapes and fruit still hung on the vine.
The record, by era
The Church Fathers1 voice
(Verse 9 and following) Women of wealth, rise up and listen to my voice: confident daughters, hear my words. After days and years, you will be troubled, O confident ones: for the harvest is complete, and there will be no more gathering. O women of wealth, be astounded, be troubled: strip yourselves and be ashamed. As Symmachus interpreted, expose yourselves: it continues. Gird your loins, beat your breasts, over the desirable region, over the fertile vineyard: over the ground of my people, thorns and thistles will grow: how much more over all the houses of the joyful city?
The Medieval Church1 voice
And he sets out the determination of the time: after several days and one year: for tribulation is very near: for there is none to help me (Ps 21:12[22:11]). And he sets out the loss of fruits: the vintage is at an end, destroyed, the …
The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices
You will want the teats, the good milk from the cows, the pleasant fields and their productions:" the useful fields that are serviceable to human life are the pleasant ones.
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The Nineteenth Century1 voice
A commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
Address to the women of Jerusalem who troubled themselves little about the political signs of the times, but lived a life of self-indulgence (Isa 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.
1 more voice on this verse
The Nineteenth Century1 voice
A commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
As the wheat harvest is omitted, Isaiah must look for the invasion in the summer or autumn of 714 B.C., when the wheat would have been secured already, and the later fruit "gathering," and vintage would be still in danger.
How the passage was read
What the Jewish commentators add
Those who dwell at ease shall be agitated for days and years, because the corn is come to an end, and there is no fruit to gather.
1 more on this passage, in their own words ▾
to be troubled (רְגָזָה) to be troubled. (This is an infinitive despite the absence of the ‘lammed.’)
This section is reception history: how the passage was read and kept in the Jewish tradition. Where a reading parts from an essential of the Christian faith, the section says so at that point.
Texts and citation data: Sefaria; each excerpt follows its version’s licence. 4 further sources are cited on this chapter that carry no English text this site may quote or only restate the verse.
The words behind it
11 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| יָמִים֙ | yamim | days | H3117 → | 2304 times |
| עַל־ | ʾal- | with | H5921 → | 5755 times |
| שָׁנָ֔ה | shanah | a year | H8141 → | 877 times |
| תִּרְגַּ֖זְנָה | tirgaznah | you will be agitated | H7264 → | 41 times |
| בֹּֽטְח֑וֹת | botechot | O confident [women] | H982 → | 120 times |
| כִּ֚י | ki | for | H3588 → | 4482 times |
| כָּלָ֣ה | kalah | it will fail | H3615 → | 208 times |
| בָצִ֔יר | vatzir | [the] grape harvest | H1210 → | |
| אֹ֖סֶף | ʾosef | [the] gathering | H625 → | |
| בְּלִ֥י | beli | not | H1097 → | 58 times |
| יָבֽוֹא׃ | yavo' | it will come | H935 → | 2568 times |
יָמִים֙days
yamimH3117 →2304 times
עַל־with
ʾal-H5921 →5755 times
שָׁנָ֔הa year
shanahH8141 →877 times
תִּרְגַּ֖זְנָהyou will be agitated
tirgaznahH7264 →41 times
בֹּֽטְח֑וֹתO confident [women]
botechotH982 →120 times
כִּ֚יfor
kiH3588 →4482 times
כָּלָ֣הit will fail
kalahH3615 →208 times
בָצִ֔יר[the] grape harvest
vatzirH1210 →
אֹ֖סֶף[the] gathering
ʾosefH625 →
בְּלִ֥יnot
beliH1097 →58 times
יָבֽוֹא׃it will come
yavo'H935 →2568 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
Jeremiah 8:13I will take away their harvest, declares the LORD. There will be no grapes on the vine, nor figs on the tree, and even the leaf will wither. Whatever I have given them will…
it leads to
- Matthew 21:19
Seeing a fig tree by the road, He went up to it but found nothing on it except leaves. “May you never bear fruit again!” He said. And immediately the tree withered.
- Joel 1:7
It has laid waste My grapevine and splintered My fig tree. It has stripped off the bark and thrown it away; the branches have turned white.
- Matthew 21:19
Through
Isaiah 7:23And on that day, in every place that had a thousand vines worth a thousand shekels of silver, only briers and thorns will be found.
it leads to
- Isaiah 5:6
I will make it a wasteland, neither pruned nor cultivated, and thorns and briers will grow up. I will command the clouds that rain shall not fall on it.”
- Isaiah 5:6
Through
Joel 1:12The grapevine is dried up, and the fig tree is withered; the pomegranate, palm, and apple—all the trees of the orchard—are withered. Surely the joy of mankind has dried up.
it leads to
- Isaiah 24:11
In the streets they cry out for wine. All joy turns to gloom; rejoicing is exiled from the land.
- Isaiah 16:10
Joy and gladness are removed from the orchard; no one sings or shouts in the vineyards. No one tramples the grapes in the winepresses; I have put an end to the cheering.
- Joel 1:16
Has not the food been cut off before our very eyes—joy and gladness from the house of our God?
- Hosea 9:1–2
Do not rejoice, O Israel, with exultation like the nations, for you have played the harlot against your God; you have made love for hire on every threshing floor.
- Habakkuk 3:17–18
Though the fig tree does not bud and no fruit is on the vines, though the olive crop fails and the fields produce no food, though the sheep are cut off from the fold…
- Isaiah 24:11
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About Isaiah
This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; Jerome, Commentary on Isaiah; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible and Thomas Aquinas, Commentary on Isaiah.