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Isaiah 32 Bible study: Until the Spirit is poured
The women "at ease" (32:9) are called "careless" three times, and in Hebrew that is the verb for trust. After the Spirit is poured "from on high" (32:15), the word for at ease and two words Strong's gives as coming from that verb come back: "confidence" (32:17), and "safe dwellings" and "quiet resting places" for "My people" (32:18).
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“The work of righteousness will be peace, and the effect of righteousness, quietness and confidence forever.”
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“Isaiah 32:15 begins with the word "until".”
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What's really going on
"A king shall reign in righteousness"
The chapter opens with a promise: "Behold, a king shall reign in righteousness, and princes shall rule in justice" (32:1) (tap justice). Then comes a picture of shelter: "A man shall be as a hiding place from the wind, and a covert from the storm, as streams of water in a dry place, as the shade of a large rock in a weary land" (32:2) (tap covert). Then the chapter says what changes. Eyes see and ears listen: "The eyes of those who see will not be dim, and the ears of those who hear will listen" (32:3). Speech comes clear: "the tongue of the stammerers will be ready to speak plainly" (32:4). And people are called what they are: "The fool will no longer be called noble, nor the scoundrel be highly respected" (32:5) (tap fool, noble, scoundrel). The chapter doesn't name the king, the princes or the man of 32:2, and these notes don't name them either.
Where it leads to Jesus
From on high
Isaiah 32:15leads toLuke 24:49
Isaiah 32 says the land will lie waste "until the Spirit is poured on us from on high, and the wilderness becomes a fruitful field" (Isaiah 32:15). In Luke's last chapter, Jesus says to the eleven and those with them (Luke 24:33), "Behold, I send out the promise of my Father on you. But wait in the city of Jerusalem until you are clothed with power from on high" (Luke 24:49). In Acts, Jesus tells them to "wait for the promise of the Father" and says, "you will be baptized in the Holy Spirit not many days from now" (Acts 1:4-5). Jesus doesn't name Isaiah, and Luke doesn't cite this chapter, so setting the two side by side is a reading. Some hear in Jesus's promise the Spirit given from on high of which Isaiah 32:15 speaks. Others read Isaiah 32:15 in its own chapter, of the wilderness made a fruitful field and justice dwelling there (Isaiah 32:15-16), and read Jesus's words on their own, spoken to his disciples. These notes pick neither.
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The rest of Isaiah 32 is waiting in Favor
- The fool, the scoundrel and the noble
- "You women who are at ease"
- "Until the Spirit is poured on us"
- At ease and secure
- 10 questions as you read
- 14 more Hebrew words
- A short check at the end
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The Hebrew word behind it
בָּטַחbatachsay ba-TAKH
Brown-Driver-Briggs: "trust", and "be confident". Strong's: "figuratively, to trust, be confident or sure", and among the English words it lists for the verb, "careless (one, woman)". The women of 32:9-11 are called careless three times: "You careless daughters" (32:9), "you careless women" (32:10), and "Be troubled, you careless ones!" (32:11). Each time it is this verb, the one the WEB gives as trust in "because he trusts in you" (Isaiah 26:3) and "I will trust, and will not be afraid" (Isaiah 12:2). Words Strong's gives as coming from it return at the chapter's end: confidence (32:17) and safe (32:18) (tap each).
For your group
Isaiah 32 Bible study questions
- 1The chapter calls those who are "at ease" to tremble (32:11), and then promises "quiet resting places" (32:18), with one Hebrew word for *at ease* and *quiet*. What do you think is the difference between the two?
- 2"The work of righteousness will be peace" (32:17). Where have you seen doing what is right bring peace with it?
- 3"The fool will no longer be called noble" (32:5). Why do you think it matters that people are called what they really are?
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