Isaiah Chapter 32 verse 19 Holy Bible
But it shall hail in the downfall of the forest; and the city shall be utterly laid low.
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But the tall trees will come down with a great fall, and the town will be low in a low place.
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And it shall hail, coming down on the forest; and the city shall be low in a low place.
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When it shall hail, coming down on the forest; and the city shall be low in a low place.
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But it shall hail in the downfall of the forest; and the city shall be utterly laid low.
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And it hath hailed in the going down of the forest, And in the valley is the city low.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 19. - When it shall hail, coming down on the forest; rather, but it shall hail in the coming down (i.e. the destruction) of the forest. "The forest" has commonly been regarded as Assyria, on the strength of Isaiah 10:18, 19, 33, 34. Mr. Cheyne, however, suggests Judah, or the high and haughty ones of Judah, whose destruction was a necessary preliminary to the establishment of Christ's kingdom. May not God's enemies generally be meant? The city. Nineveh (Lowth, Gesenius, Rosenmüller); Jerusalem (Delitzsch, Knobel, Cheyne, Kay); "the city in which the hostility of the world to Jehovah will, in the latter days, be centralized" (Drechsler, Nagel) - the "world-power," in fact. The last view seems to give the best sense.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(19) When it shall hail, coming down on the forest.--Better, But it shall hail. A time of sharp judgment, "hailstones and coals of fire," is to precede that of blessedness and peace. Of such a judgment "hail" was the natural symbol. (Comp. Isaiah 30:30; Ezekiel 13:13.) The "forest" stands in the symbolism of prophecy for the rulers and princes of any kingdom, as in Isaiah 10:34 for those of Assyria, and here probably of Judah. Not a few commentators refer the words here also to Assyria, but the city that follows is clearly Jerusalem, and the interpretation given above harmonises accordingly better with the context. Of that city Isaiah says that it shall be "brought down to a low estate," its pride humbled even to the ground, in order that it may afterwards be exalted.
