Isaiah 32:1-8 Behold, a king shall reign in righteousness, and princes shall rule in judgment.… Such (Isaiah 31:8, 9) will be the ignominious end of the proud battalions of Assyria. For Judah a happier future immediately begins. There should be no break between the two chapters. The representation which follows (vers. 1-8) is the positive complement to Isaiah 31:6 f., and is parallel to Isaiah 30:23-26, completing under its ethical and spiritual aspects the picture of which the external material features were there delineated. Society, when the crisis is past, will be regenerated. Kings and nobles will be the devoted guardians of justice, and great men will be what their position demands that they should be — the willing and powerful protectors of the poor. All classes, in other words, will be pervaded by an increased sense of public duty. The spiritual and intellectual blindness (Isaiah 29:10) will have passed away (ver. 3); superficial and precipitate judgments will be replaced by discrimination (ver. 4a); hesitancy and vacillation will give way before the prompt and clear assertion of principle (ver. 4b). The present confusion of moral distinctions will cease; men and actions will be called by their right names. (Prof. S. R. Driver, D. D.) Parallel Verses KJV: Behold, a king shall reign in righteousness, and princes shall rule in judgment.WEB: Behold, a king shall reign in righteousness, and princes shall rule in justice. |
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