King James Version
What Does Isaiah 32:10 Mean?
“Many days and years shall ye be troubled, ye careless women: for the vintage shall fail, the gathering shall not come. Many: Heb. Days above a year”
Context
8
But the liberal deviseth liberal things; and by liberal things shall he stand. stand: or, be established
9
Rise up, ye women that are at ease; hear my voice, ye careless daughters; give ear unto my speech.
10
Many days and years shall ye be troubled, ye careless women: for the vintage shall fail, the gathering shall not come. Many: Heb. Days above a year
11
Tremble, ye women that are at ease; be troubled, ye careless ones: strip you, and make you bare, and gird sackcloth upon your loins.
12
They shall lament for the teats, for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine. pleasant: Heb. fields of desire
Commentary
Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers(10) **Many days and years . . .**—Literally, *days to the year, *a phrase after the pattern of “add ye year to year” in Isaiah 29:1, but implying, not the long continuance of the trouble, but its quick arrival, as in “a year and a day.”
**The vintage shall fail . . .**—The words are commonly taken as predicting a literal failure of the vine-crop, and therefore of the supply of wine for the banquets of the rich. A truer insight into the language of a poet-prophet would lead to our seeing in it a symbol of the failure of all forms of earthly joy.
Charles John Ellicott (1819–1905). Public Domain.
Historical Context
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Theological Significance
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