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Your joyful homes and happy towns will be gone.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/esv/isaiah/32.htm">English Standard Version</a></span><br />for the soil of my people growing up in thorns and briers, yes, for all the joyous houses in the exultant city.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/bsb/isaiah/32.htm">Berean Standard Bible</a></span><br />and for the land of my people, overgrown with thorns and briers—even for every house of merriment in this city of revelry.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/kjv/isaiah/32.htm">King James Bible</a></span><br />Upon the land of my people shall come up thorns <i>and</i> briers; yea, upon all the houses of joy <i>in</i> the joyous city:<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nkjv/isaiah/32.htm">New King James Version</a></span><br />On the land of my people will come up thorns <i>and</i> briers, Yes, on all the happy homes <i>in</i> the joyous city;<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb_/isaiah/32.htm">New American Standard Bible</a></span><br />For the land of my people <i>in which</i> thorns <i>and</i> briars will come up; Indeed, for all the joyful houses <i>and for</i> the jubilant city.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb/isaiah/32.htm">NASB 1995</a></span><br />For the land of my people in which thorns and briars shall come up; Yea, for all the joyful houses and for the jubilant city.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb77/isaiah/32.htm">NASB 1977 </a></span><br />For the land of my people <i>in which</i> thorns <i>and</i> briars shall come up; Yea, for all the joyful houses, <i>and for</i> the jubilant city.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lsb/isaiah/32.htm">Legacy Standard Bible </a></span><br />For the land of my people <i>in which</i> thorns <i>and</i> briars shall come up, Indeed, against all the joyful houses <i>and</i> the exultant city.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/amp/isaiah/32.htm">Amplified Bible</a></span><br />For the land of my people growing over with thorns and briars— Yes, [mourn] for all the houses of joy in the joyous city.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/csb/isaiah/32.htm">Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />for the ground of my people growing thorns and briers, indeed, for every joyous house in the jubilant city.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/hcsb/isaiah/32.htm">Holman Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />for the ground of my people growing thorns and briers, indeed, for every joyous house in the joyful city. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/asv/isaiah/32.htm">American Standard Version</a></span><br />Upon the land of my people shall come up thorns and briers; yea, upon all the houses of joy in the joyous city.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cev/isaiah/32.htm">Contemporary English Version</a></span><br />and to the happy homes in Jerusalem. The land of my people is covered with thorns. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/erv/isaiah/32.htm">English Revised Version</a></span><br />Upon the land of my people shall come up thorns and briers; yea, upon all the houses of joy in the joyous city:<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gwt/isaiah/32.htm">GOD'S WORD® Translation</a></span><br />Mourn for my people's land where thorns and briars will grow. Mourn for all the happy homes in a joyful city.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gnt/isaiah/32.htm">Good News Translation</a></span><br />and thorn bushes and briers are growing on my people's land. Weep for all the houses where people were happy and for the city that was full of life. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/isv/isaiah/32.htm">International Standard Version</a></span><br />and over the land of my people overgrown with thorns and briers— yes, over all the houses of merriment and over this city of revelry.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/msb/isaiah/32.htm">Majority Standard Bible</a></span><br />and for the land of my people, overgrown with thorns and briers?even for every house of merriment in this city of revelry.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/net/isaiah/32.htm">NET Bible</a></span><br />Mourn over the land of my people, which is overgrown with thorns and briers, and over all the once-happy houses in the city filled with revelry. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nheb/isaiah/32.htm">New Heart English Bible</a></span><br />Thorns and briars will come up on my people's land; yes, on all the houses of joy in the joyous city.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/wbt/isaiah/32.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a></span><br />Upon the land of my people shall come up thorns and briers; also, upon all the houses of joy in the joyous city:<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/web/isaiah/32.htm">World English Bible</a></span><br />Thorns and briers will come up on my people’s land; yes, on all the houses of joy in the joyous city. <div class="vheading2"><b>Literal Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lsv/isaiah/32.htm">Literal Standard Version</a></span><br />Over the ground of my people thorn [and] brier go up, "" Surely over all houses of joy of the exulting city,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/ylt/isaiah/32.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a></span><br /> Over the ground of my people thorn -- brier goeth up, Surely over all houses of joy of the exulting city,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/slt/isaiah/32.htm">Smith's Literal Translation</a></span><br />Upon the land of my people shall come up the thorn of the sharp point; so upon the houses of rejoicing of the exulting city.<div class="vheading2"><b>Catholic Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drb/isaiah/32.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />Upon the land of my people shall thorns and briers come up: how much more upon all the houses of joy, of the city that rejoiced? <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cpdv/isaiah/32.htm">Catholic Public Domain Version</a></span><br />Thorn and brier will rise up, over the soil of my people. How much more over all the houses of gladness, over the city of exultation?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nabre/isaiah/32.htm">New American Bible</a></span><br />For the soil of my people, overgrown with thorns and briers; For all the joyful houses, the exultant city. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nrsvce/isaiah/32.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a></span><br />for the soil of my people growing up in thorns and briers; yes, for all the joyous houses in the jubilant city.<div class="vheading2"><b>Translations from Aramaic</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lamsa/isaiah/32.htm">Lamsa Bible</a></span><br />Upon the land of my people shall grow up thorns and briers; yea, upon all the houses of mirth in the mighty city;<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/hpbt/isaiah/32.htm">Peshitta Holy Bible Translated</a></span><br />And upon the land of my people, thorns and briars shall sprout, and in all the households of joy and in the mighty city<div class="vheading2"><b>OT Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/jps/isaiah/32.htm">JPS Tanakh 1917</a></span><br />For the land of my people Whereon thorns and briers come up; Yea, for all the houses of joy And the joyous city.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/sep/isaiah/32.htm">Brenton Septuagint Translation</a></span><br /><i>As for</i> the land of my people, the thorn and grass shall come upon <i>it</i>, and joy shall be removed from every house.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/parallel/isaiah/32-13.htm">Additional Translations ...</a></span></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><a name="audio" id="audio"></a><div class="vheadingv"><b>Audio Bible</b></div><iframe width="100%" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Xv9bHT-nr9s?start=6770" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><div class="vheadingv"><b>Context</b></div><span class="hdg"><a href="/bsb/isaiah/32.htm">The Women of Jerusalem</a></span><br>…<span class="reftext">12</span>Beat your breasts for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vines, <span class="reftext">13</span><span class="highl"><a href="/hebrew/5921.htm" title="5921: ‘al (Prep) -- Properly, the same as al used as a preposition; above, over, upon, or against in a great variety of applications.">and for</a> <a href="/hebrew/127.htm" title="127: ’aḏ·maṯ (N-fsc) -- Ground, land. From 'adam; soil.">the land</a> <a href="/hebrew/5971.htm" title="5971: ‘am·mî (N-msc:: 1cs) -- From amam; a people; specifically, a tribe; hence troops or attendants; figuratively, a flock.">of my people,</a> <a href="/hebrew/5927.htm" title="5927: ta·‘ă·leh (V-Qal-Imperf-3fs) -- A primitive root; to ascend, intransitively or actively; used in a great variety of senses, primary and secondary, literal and figurative.">overgrown</a> <a href="/hebrew/6975.htm" title="6975: qō·wṣ (N-ms) -- A thorn, thornbush. Or qots; from quwts; a thorn.">with thorns</a> <a href="/hebrew/8068.htm" title="8068: šā·mîr (N-ms) -- A thorn, adamant, flint. From shamar in the original sense of pricking; a thorn; also a gem, probably the diamond.">and briers—</a> <a href="/hebrew/3588.htm" title="3588: kî (Conj) -- That, for, when. ">even</a> <a href="/hebrew/5921.htm" title="5921: ‘al- (Prep) -- Properly, the same as al used as a preposition; above, over, upon, or against in a great variety of applications.">for</a> <a href="/hebrew/3605.htm" title="3605: kāl- (N-msc) -- The whole, all. Or kowl; from kalal; properly, the whole; hence, all, any or every.">every</a> <a href="/hebrew/1004.htm" title="1004: bāt·tê (N-mpc) -- A house. Probably from banah abbreviated; a house.">house</a> <a href="/hebrew/4885.htm" title="4885: mā·śō·wś (N-ms) -- Exultation, rejoicing. From suws; delight, concretely or abstractly.">of merriment</a> <a href="/hebrew/7151.htm" title="7151: qir·yāh (N-fs) -- A town, city. From qarah in the sense of flooring, i.e. Building; a city.">in this city</a> <a href="/hebrew/5947.htm" title="5947: ‘al·lî·zāh (Adj-fs) -- Exultant, jubilant. From alaz; exultant.">of revelry.</a> </span><span class="reftext">14</span>For the palace will be forsaken, the busy city abandoned. The hill and the watchtower will become caves forever—the delight of wild donkeys and a pasture for flocks—…<div class="cred"><a href="//berean.bible">Berean Standard Bible</a> · <a href="//berean.bible/downloads.htm">Download</a></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="crossref" id="crossref"></a><div class="vheading">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><span class="crossverse"><a href="/isaiah/5-6.htm">Isaiah 5:6</a></span><br />I will make it a wasteland, neither pruned nor cultivated, and thorns and briers will grow up. I will command the clouds that rain shall not fall on it.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/isaiah/7-23.htm">Isaiah 7:23-25</a></span><br />And on that day, in every place that had a thousand vines worth a thousand shekels of silver, only briers and thorns will be found. / Men will go there with bow and arrow, for the land will be covered with briers and thorns. / For fear of the briers and thorns, you will no longer traverse the hills once tilled by the hoe; they will become places for oxen to graze and sheep to trample.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/isaiah/24-1.htm">Isaiah 24:1-3</a></span><br />Behold, the LORD lays waste the earth and leaves it in ruins. He will twist its surface and scatter its inhabitants— / people and priest alike, servant and master, maid and mistress, buyer and seller, lender and borrower, creditor and debtor. / The earth will be utterly laid waste and thoroughly plundered. For the LORD has spoken this word.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/isaiah/29-17.htm">Isaiah 29:17</a></span><br />In a very short time, will not Lebanon become an orchard, and the orchard seem like a forest?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/isaiah/35-1.htm">Isaiah 35:1-2</a></span><br />The wilderness and the dry land will be glad; the desert will rejoice and blossom like a rose. / It will bloom profusely and rejoice with joy and singing. The glory of Lebanon will be given to it, the splendor of Carmel and Sharon. They will see the glory of the LORD, the splendor of our God.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/jeremiah/4-26.htm">Jeremiah 4:26</a></span><br />I looked, and the fruitful land was a desert. All its cities were torn down before the LORD, before His fierce anger.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/jeremiah/12-10.htm">Jeremiah 12:10-11</a></span><br />Many shepherds have destroyed My vineyard; they have trampled My plot of ground. They have turned My pleasant field into a desolate wasteland. / They have made it a desolation; desolate before Me, it mourns. All the land is laid waste, but no man takes it to heart.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/ezekiel/6-14.htm">Ezekiel 6:14</a></span><br />I will stretch out My hand against them, and wherever they live I will make the land a desolate waste, from the wilderness to Diblah. Then they will know that I am the LORD.’”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/ezekiel/15-8.htm">Ezekiel 15:8</a></span><br />Thus I will make the land desolate, because they have acted unfaithfully,’ declares the Lord GOD.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/hosea/2-12.htm">Hosea 2:12</a></span><br />I will destroy her vines and fig trees, which she thinks are the wages paid by her lovers. So I will make them into a thicket, and the beasts of the field will devour them.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/joel/1-7.htm">Joel 1:7</a></span><br />It has laid waste My grapevine and splintered My fig tree. It has stripped off the bark and thrown it away; the branches have turned white.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/micah/3-12.htm">Micah 3:12</a></span><br />Therefore, because of you, Zion will be plowed like a field, Jerusalem will become a heap of rubble, and the temple mount a wooded ridge.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/matthew/21-19.htm">Matthew 21:19</a></span><br />Seeing a fig tree by the road, He went up to it but found nothing on it except leaves. “May you never bear fruit again!” He said. And immediately the tree withered.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/luke/13-6.htm">Luke 13:6-9</a></span><br />Then Jesus told this parable: “A man had a fig tree that was planted in his vineyard. He went to look for fruit on it but did not find any. / So he said to the keeper of the vineyard, ‘Look, for the past three years I have come to search for fruit on this fig tree and haven’t found any. Therefore cut it down! Why should it use up the soil?’ / ‘Sir,’ the man replied, ‘leave it alone again this year, until I dig around it and fertilize it. ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/john/15-6.htm">John 15:6</a></span><br />If anyone does not remain in Me, he is like a branch that is thrown away and withers. Such branches are gathered up, thrown into the fire, and burned.</div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="tsk" id="tsk"><div class="vheading">Treasury of Scripture</div><p class="tsk2">On the land of my people shall come up thorns and briers; yes, on all the houses of joy in the joyous city:</p><p class="hdg">come</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/isaiah/6-11.htm">Isaiah 6:11</a></b></br> Then said I, Lord, how long? And he answered, Until the cities be wasted without inhabitant, and the houses without man, and the land be utterly desolate,</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/isaiah/7-23.htm">Isaiah 7:23</a></b></br> And it shall come to pass in that day, <i>that</i> every place shall be, where there were a thousand vines at a thousand silverlings, it shall <i>even</i> be for briers and thorns.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/isaiah/34-13.htm">Isaiah 34:13</a></b></br> And thorns shall come up in her palaces, nettles and brambles in the fortresses thereof: and it shall be an habitation of dragons, <i>and</i> a court for owls.</p><p class="hdg">yea, upon.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/jeremiah/39-8.htm">Jeremiah 39:8</a></b></br> And the Chaldeans burned the king's house, and the houses of the people, with fire, and brake down the walls of Jerusalem.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/revelation/18-7.htm">Revelation 18:7,8</a></b></br> How much she hath glorified herself, and lived deliciously, so much torment and sorrow give her: for she saith in her heart, I sit a queen, and am no widow, and shall see no sorrow… </p><p class="hdg">in the</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/isaiah/22-2.htm">Isaiah 22:2,12,13</a></b></br> Thou that art full of stirs, a tumultuous city, a joyous city: thy slain <i>men are</i> not slain with the sword, nor dead in battle… </p><div class="vheading">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/isaiah/10-17.htm">Briars</a> <a href="/isaiah/10-17.htm">Brier</a> <a href="/isaiah/27-4.htm">Briers</a> <a href="/isaiah/29-2.htm">City</a> <a href="/isaiah/24-8.htm">Exulting</a> <a href="/isaiah/30-29.htm">Glad</a> <a href="/isaiah/30-24.htm">Ground</a> <a href="/ecclesiastes/2-6.htm">Growing</a> <a href="/isaiah/22-10.htm">Houses</a> <a href="/isaiah/30-29.htm">Joy</a> <a href="/isaiah/24-8.htm">Joyful</a> <a href="/isaiah/23-7.htm">Joyous</a> <a href="/isaiah/24-8.htm">Jubilant</a> <a href="/isaiah/29-2.htm">Mourn</a> <a href="/proverbs/24-31.htm">Overgrown</a> <a href="/songs/6-12.htm">People's</a> <a href="/isaiah/23-7.htm">Revelry</a> <a href="/isaiah/30-24.htm">Soil</a> <a href="/isaiah/30-19.htm">Surely</a> <a href="/proverbs/24-31.htm">Thistles</a> <a href="/isaiah/27-4.htm">Thorn</a> <a href="/isaiah/27-4.htm">Thorns</a> <a href="/songs/4-4.htm">Whereon</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/job/31-40.htm">Briars</a> <a href="/isaiah/55-13.htm">Brier</a> <a href="/isaiah/55-13.htm">Briers</a> <a href="/isaiah/32-14.htm">City</a> <a href="/habakkuk/3-14.htm">Exulting</a> <a href="/isaiah/35-1.htm">Glad</a> <a href="/isaiah/35-7.htm">Ground</a> <a href="/mark/4-8.htm">Growing</a> <a href="/isaiah/32-14.htm">Houses</a> <a href="/isaiah/32-14.htm">Joy</a> <a href="/isaiah/35-10.htm">Joyful</a> <a href="/ezekiel/7-7.htm">Joyous</a> <a href="/jeremiah/50-11.htm">Jubilant</a> <a href="/isaiah/38-14.htm">Mourn</a> <a href="/micah/3-12.htm">Overgrown</a> <a href="/isaiah/57-14.htm">People's</a> <a href="/amos/6-7.htm">Revelry</a> <a href="/isaiah/34-7.htm">Soil</a> <a href="/isaiah/36-15.htm">Surely</a> <a href="/isaiah/34-13.htm">Thistles</a> <a href="/isaiah/55-13.htm">Thorn</a> <a href="/isaiah/33-12.htm">Thorns</a> <a href="/isaiah/36-6.htm">Whereon</a><div class="vheading2">Isaiah 32</div><span class="reftext">1. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/isaiah/32-1.htm">The blessings of Christ's kingdom</a></span><br><span class="reftext">9. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/isaiah/32-9.htm">Desolation is foreshown</a></span><br><span class="reftext">14. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/isaiah/32-14.htm">Restoration is promised to succeed</a></span><br></div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><div align="center"> <script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; 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The land is often seen as a symbol of God's covenant with His people. The use of "my people" indicates a personal relationship between God and the Israelites, emphasizing their chosen status. Historically, the land was a gift from God, promised to Abraham and his descendants (<a href="/genesis/12-7.htm">Genesis 12:7</a>). The land's condition often reflected the spiritual state of the people.<p><b>overgrown with thorns and briers</b><br>Thorns and briers are frequently used in the Bible to symbolize desolation and judgment (<a href="/genesis/3-18.htm">Genesis 3:18</a>, <a href="/hebrews/6-8.htm">Hebrews 6:8</a>). They represent the consequences of sin and disobedience. In the context of Isaiah, this imagery suggests a land that has been neglected and is suffering due to the people's unfaithfulness. It also serves as a warning of the impending judgment and desolation that would come upon the land if the people did not repent.<p><b>even for every house of merriment</b><br>Houses of merriment refer to places of feasting and celebration, which were common in prosperous times. However, in this context, they are depicted as being subject to the same desolation as the rest of the land. This suggests that the joy and revelry of the people are superficial and will be disrupted by the coming judgment. It highlights the futility of seeking pleasure and security in worldly things when the spiritual state is in decline.<p><b>in this city of revelry</b><br>The city of revelry likely refers to Jerusalem, known for its religious and cultural significance. Jerusalem was often a center of celebration and worship, but it also became a place of excess and idolatry. The term "revelry" implies indulgence and moral decay, which were prevalent issues addressed by the prophets. This phrase serves as a critique of the people's misplaced priorities and a call to return to genuine worship and obedience to God. The impending judgment would serve as a means to purify and restore the city to its intended purpose.<div class="vheading2">Persons / Places / Events</div>1. <b><a href="/topical/i/isaiah.htm">Isaiah</a></b><br>The prophet who conveyed God's messages to the people of Judah and Jerusalem, warning them of impending judgment and offering hope for future restoration.<br><br>2. <b><a href="/topical/t/the_land_of_my_people.htm">The Land of My People</a></b><br>Refers to the land of Judah, which is facing desolation due to the people's disobedience and God's subsequent judgment.<br><br>3. <b><a href="/topical/t/thorns_and_briers.htm">Thorns and Briers</a></b><br>Symbolic of desolation and neglect, representing the consequences of turning away from God.<br><br>4. <b><a href="/topical/h/house_of_merriment.htm">House of Merriment</a></b><br>Represents places of indulgence and revelry, which are contrasted with the desolation that will come as a result of God's judgment.<br><br>5. <b><a href="/topical/c/city_of_revelry.htm">City of Revelry</a></b><br>Likely refers to Jerusalem or other cities in Judah where people engaged in excessive celebration and ignored God's commands.<div class="vheading2">Teaching Points</div><b><a href="/topical/c/consequences_of_disobedience.htm">Consequences of Disobedience</a></b><br>The imagery of thorns and briers serves as a stark reminder of the consequences of turning away from God. Just as physical neglect leads to overgrown fields, spiritual neglect results in desolation.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/t/the_illusion_of_security_in_worldly_pleasures.htm">The Illusion of Security in Worldly Pleasures</a></b><br>The "house of merriment" and "city of revelry" highlight the false security found in worldly pleasures. True security and joy come from a relationship with God, not from indulgence.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/c/call_to_repentance_and_restoration.htm">Call to Repentance and Restoration</a></b><br>While the verse speaks of judgment, it also implicitly calls for repentance. God's desire is for His people to turn back to Him and experience restoration.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/s/spiritual_vigilance.htm">Spiritual Vigilance</a></b><br>Just as a field requires constant care to prevent it from being overrun by thorns, our spiritual lives require vigilance and care to prevent neglect and spiritual decay.<div class="vheading2">Lists and Questions</div><a href="/top10/lessons_from_isaiah_32.htm">Top 10 Lessons from Isaiah 32</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/what_is_the_nature_of_divine_guidance.htm">What is the nature of divine guidance?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/why_link_isaiah_13_to_later_events.htm">If Isaiah 13 was written in the 8th century BCE, why do some scholars suggest it reflects later events, raising questions about its authorship and date?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/how_can_stars_fall_and_sun_darken.htm">In Mark 13:24-25, how can the sun be darkened and the stars literally fall from the sky given our modern scientific understanding of astronomy?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/what's_the_crown_of_thorns'_meaning.htm">What is the significance of the Crown of Thorns?</a><a name="commentary" id="commentary"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/pulpit/isaiah/32.htm">Pulpit Commentary</a></div><span class="cmt_sub_title">Verses 13-20.</span> - A FURTHER MINGLING OF THREATS WITH COMFORTING PROMISES. The women require, like the men, to be both warned and comforted, wherefore the prophet addresses to them, as to the men in <a href="/isaiah/30.htm">Isaiah 30</a>. and 31, an intermixture of threatening (vers. 13, 14) with promise (vers. 15-20). <span class="cmt_sub_title">Verse 13.</span> - <span class="cmt_word">Upon the land of my people shall come up thorns and briars.</span> This was the punishment with which the unfruitful vineyard was threatened in <a href="/isaiah/5-6.htm">Isaiah 5:6</a>. It may be understood either literally or of the wickedness that would abound when the time of judgment came. <span class="cmt_word">Yea, upon all the houses of joy</span> (comp. <a href="/isaiah/5-9.htm">Isaiah 5:9</a>). If Sennacherib carried off, as he declares (G. Smith, 'Epenym Canon,' p. 134), more than two hundred thousand captives from Judaea, he must have left many houses without inhabitants. The solitude begun by him was completed by the Babylonians. <span class="cmt_word">The joyous city</span> (see <a href="/isaiah/22-2.htm">Isaiah 22:2</a>). The word used has generally the sense of unholy mirth (comp. <a href="/isaiah/23-7.htm">Isaiah 23:7</a>; <a href="/isaiah/24-8.htm">Isaiah 24:8</a>; <a href="/zephaniah/2-15.htm">Zephaniah 2:15</a>; <a href="/zephaniah/3-11.htm">Zephaniah 3:11</a>). <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/commentaries/isaiah/32-13.htm">Parallel Commentaries ...</a></span><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><a name="lexicon" id="lexicon"></a><div class="vheading">Hebrew</div><span class="word">and for</span><br /><span class="heb">עַ֚ל</span> <span class="translit">(‘al)</span><br /><span class="parse">Preposition<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_5921.htm">Strong's 5921: </a> </span><span class="str2">Above, over, upon, against</span><br /><br /><span class="word">the land</span><br /><span class="heb">אַדְמַ֣ת</span> <span class="translit">(’aḏ·maṯ)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - feminine singular construct<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_127.htm">Strong's 127: </a> </span><span class="str2">Ground, land</span><br /><br /><span class="word">of my people,</span><br /><span class="heb">עַמִּ֔י</span> <span class="translit">(‘am·mî)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - masculine singular construct | first person common singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_5971.htm">Strong's 5971: </a> </span><span class="str2">A people, a tribe, troops, attendants, a flock</span><br /><br /><span class="word">overgrown</span><br /><span class="heb">תַּֽעֲלֶ֑ה</span> <span class="translit">(ta·‘ă·leh)</span><br /><span class="parse">Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person feminine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_5927.htm">Strong's 5927: </a> </span><span class="str2">To ascend, in, actively</span><br /><br /><span class="word">with thorns</span><br /><span class="heb">ק֥וֹץ</span> <span class="translit">(qō·wṣ)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_6975.htm">Strong's 6975: </a> </span><span class="str2">A thorn, thornbush</span><br /><br /><span class="word">and briers—</span><br /><span class="heb">שָׁמִ֖יר</span> <span class="translit">(šā·mîr)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_8068.htm">Strong's 8068: </a> </span><span class="str2">A thorn, a gem, the diamond</span><br /><br /><span class="word">even</span><br /><span class="heb">כִּ֚י</span> <span class="translit">(kî)</span><br /><span class="parse">Conjunction<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_3588.htm">Strong's 3588: </a> </span><span class="str2">A relative conjunction</span><br /><br /><span class="word">for</span><br /><span class="heb">עַל־</span> <span class="translit">(‘al-)</span><br /><span class="parse">Preposition<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_5921.htm">Strong's 5921: </a> </span><span class="str2">Above, over, upon, against</span><br /><br /><span class="word">every</span><br /><span class="heb">כָּל־</span> <span class="translit">(kāl-)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - masculine singular construct<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_3605.htm">Strong's 3605: </a> </span><span class="str2">The whole, all, any, every</span><br /><br /><span class="word">house</span><br /><span class="heb">בָּתֵּ֣י</span> <span class="translit">(bāt·tê)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - masculine plural construct<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_1004.htm">Strong's 1004: </a> </span><span class="str2">A house</span><br /><br /><span class="word">of merriment</span><br /><span class="heb">מָשׂ֔וֹשׂ</span> <span class="translit">(mā·śō·wś)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_4885.htm">Strong's 4885: </a> </span><span class="str2">Exultation, rejoicing</span><br /><br /><span class="word">in this city</span><br /><span class="heb">קִרְיָ֖ה</span> <span class="translit">(qir·yāh)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - feminine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_7151.htm">Strong's 7151: </a> </span><span class="str2">A town, city</span><br /><br /><span class="word">of revelry.</span><br /><span class="heb">עַלִּיזָֽה׃</span> <span class="translit">(‘al·lî·zāh)</span><br /><span class="parse">Adjective - feminine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_5947.htm">Strong's 5947: </a> </span><span class="str2">Exultant, jubilant</span><br /><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div class="vheading">Links</div><a href="/niv/isaiah/32-13.htm">Isaiah 32:13 NIV</a><br /><a href="/nlt/isaiah/32-13.htm">Isaiah 32:13 NLT</a><br /><a href="/esv/isaiah/32-13.htm">Isaiah 32:13 ESV</a><br /><a href="/nasb/isaiah/32-13.htm">Isaiah 32:13 NASB</a><br /><a href="/kjv/isaiah/32-13.htm">Isaiah 32:13 KJV</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="//bibleapps.com/isaiah/32-13.htm">Isaiah 32:13 BibleApps.com</a><br /><a href="//bibliaparalela.com/isaiah/32-13.htm">Isaiah 32:13 Biblia Paralela</a><br /><a href="//holybible.com.cn/isaiah/32-13.htm">Isaiah 32:13 Chinese Bible</a><br /><a href="//saintebible.com/isaiah/32-13.htm">Isaiah 32:13 French Bible</a><br /><a href="/catholic/isaiah/32-13.htm">Isaiah 32:13 Catholic Bible</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/isaiah/32-13.htm">OT Prophets: Isaiah 32:13 Thorns and briars will come up (Isa Isi Is)</a></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="/isaiah/32-12.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Isaiah 32:12"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Isaiah 32:12" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="/isaiah/32-14.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Isaiah 32:14"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Isaiah 32:14" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhnew2.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>