Isaiah 32:13 BSB — MannaFest

Isaiah 32:13

and for the land of my people, overgrown with thorns and briers—even for every house of merriment in this city of revelry.

BSB

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ASV

Upon the land of my people shall come up thorns and briers; yea, upon all the houses of joy in the joyous city.

KJV

Upon the land of my people shall come up thorns and briers; yea, upon all the houses of joy in the joyous city:

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Commentary

5 voices

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

Upon the land of my people - A description similar to this, in regard to the consequences of the invasion of Sennacherib, is given in Isa 7:20-25 (see the notes at that passage). Yea, upon all the houses of joy - Margin, ‘Burning upon.’ The marginal readling has originated from the supposition that the word כי kı̂y is derived from כיה kâvâh, “to be burned.” This conjecture has been adopted by Junius and Tremellius, and by some others. But it is evidently mere conjecture, and is not demanded.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament (1765)

The foregoing prophecy was delivered, not in the time of Ahaz for he sent to the Assyrian, not the Egyptian, for help; it was Hezekiah, who rebelled against the king of Assyria, and was too prone to trust upon the staff of Egypt. But this seems to have been delivered in the time of Ahaz. A king - Hezekiah, a type of Christ, and Christ typified by him.

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

They shall be abandoned; the owners shall never return to them; every body shall look upon them to be like Jericho, an anathema; so that, even when peace returns, they shall not be rebuilt, but shall be thrown to the waste: A joy of wild asses and a pasture of flocks. Thus is many a house brought to ruin by sin.

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

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.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

However, the prophecy, in its full accomplishment, refers to the utter desolation of Judea and its capital by Rome, and subsequently, previous to the second coming of the King (Ps 118:26; 19:38); "the joyous city" is in this view, Jerusalem (Isa 22:2).

Voices on this verse

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Original language & word study

13 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
עַ֚ל	'al	on	H5921 →
אַדְמַ֣ת	'ad.Mat	[the] land of	H127 →
עַמִּ֔י	'a.Mi	people my	H5971 →
ק֥וֹץ	Kotz	thornbush[es]	H6975 →
שָׁמִ֖יר	sha.Mir	thorn[s]	H8068 →
תַּֽעֲלֶ֑ה	ta.'a.Leh	it will grow up	H5927 →
כִּ֚י	ki	for	H3588 →
עַל־	'al-	on	H5921 →
כָּל־	kol-	all	H3605 →
בָּתֵּ֣י	ba.Tei	[the] houses of	H1004 →
מָשׂ֔וֹשׂ	ma.Sos	joy	H4885 →
קִרְיָ֖ה	kir.Yah	a town	H7151 →
עַלִּיזָֽה׃	'a.li.Zah	jubilant	H5947 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Isaiah 7:23
And on that day, in every place that had a thousand vines worth a thousand shekels of silver, only briers and thorns will be found.
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.”
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
Through
Hosea 9:6
For even if they flee destruction, Egypt will gather them and Memphis will bury them. Their precious silver will be taken over by thistles, and thorns will overrun their tents.
leads to
- Hosea 10:8
  The high places of Aven will be destroyed—it is the sin of Israel; thorns and thistles will overgrow their altars. Then they will say to the mountains, “Cover us!” and to the hills, “Fall…
- Isaiah 7:23
  And on that day, in every place that had a thousand vines worth a thousand shekels of silver, only briers and thorns will be found.
Through
Isaiah 34:13
Her towers will be overgrown with thorns, her fortresses with thistles and briers. She will become a haunt for jackals, an abode for ostriches.
leads to
- Jeremiah 9:11
  “And I will make Jerusalem a heap of rubble, a haunt for jackals; and I will make the cities of Judah a desolation, without inhabitant.”
- Jeremiah 10:22
  Listen! The sound of a report is coming— a great commotion from the land to the north. The cities of Judah will be made a desolation, a haunt for jackals.
- Malachi 1:3
  but Esau I have hated, and I have made his mountains a wasteland and left his inheritance to the desert jackals.”
- Psalms 44:19
  But You have crushed us in the lair of jackals; You have covered us with deepest darkness.
- Jeremiah 51:37
  Babylon will become a heap of rubble, a haunt for jackals, an object of horror and scorn, without inhabitant.

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01Commentary

The record, by era

Voices on this verse

02Original language & word study

03The walk

Where the connections lead

04Related verses

06About Isaiah

The record, by era

Where the connections lead

Commentary

Original language & word study

The walk

Related verses

About Isaiah