Isaiah 32:16
Then justice will inhabit the wilderness, and righteousness will dwell in the fertile field.
BSB
ASV
Then justice shall dwell in the wilderness; and righteousness shall abide in the fruitful field.
KJV
Then judgment shall dwell in the wilderness, and righteousness remain in the fruitful field.
Then judgment shall dwell - Or, justice shall make its appropriate dwelling-place there. In the wilderness - In the place that was a wilderness, but that shall now be turned to a fruitful field. In the fruitful field - In the nation that is like a fruitful field; in Judea restored.
The law of Christ introduces a judgment or rule by which we must be governed, and the gospel of Christ a righteousness by which we must be saved; and, wherever the Spirit is poured out, both these dwell and remain as an everlasting righteousness.
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.
The walk8
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Hosea 3:5Afterward, the people of Israel will return and seek the LORD their God and David their king. They will come trembling to the LORD and to His goodness in the last days.
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“In those days and at that time, declares the LORD, the children of Israel and the children of Judah will come together, weeping as they come, and will seek the LORD their God.
Instead, they will serve the LORD their God and David their king, whom I will raise up for them.
I will appoint over them one shepherd, My servant David, and he will feed them. He will feed them and be their shepherd.
In the last days the mountain of the house of the LORD will be established as the chief of the mountains; it will be raised above the hills, and all nations will stream to…
I will make them one nation in the land, on the mountains of Israel, and one king will rule over all of them. Then they will no longer be two nations and will never…
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Isaiah 60:21Then all your people will be righteous; they will possess the land forever; they are the branch of My planting, the work of My hands, so that I may be glorified.
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But Jesus replied, “Every plant that My heavenly Father has not planted will be pulled up by its roots.
Surely those He blesses will inherit the land, but the cursed will be destroyed.
But the meek will inherit the land and delight in abundant prosperity.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.