Isaiah 32:13-19 On the land of my people shall come up thorns and briers; yes, on all the houses of joy in the joyous city:… As the communication of the Spirit is necessary to produce a reformation, so a large communication or outpouring of the Spirit is necessary to produce a public general reformation; such as may save a country on the brink of ruin, or recover one already laid desolate. Without this remedy, all other applications will be ineffectual; and the distempered body politic will languish more and more, tin it is at length dissolved. Until this outpouring of the Spirit, says the prophet, "briers and thorns shall come up upon the land; and the houses of joy, the palaces, and towers, shall be heaps of ruins, dens for wild beasts, and pastures for flocks." Until that blessed time come, no means can effectually repair a broken state, or repeople a desolate country. But when that blessed time comes, then what a glorious revelation — what a happy alteration follows! (vers. 15-19). (S. Davies, M. A.) Parallel Verses 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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