Charles Ellicott Commentary Isaiah 32:10

Charles Ellicott Commentary

Isaiah 32:10

1819–1905
Anglican
Charles Ellicott
Charles Ellicott

Charles Ellicott Commentary

Isaiah 32:10

1819–1905
Anglican
SCRIPTURE

"For days beyond a year shall ye be troubled, ye careless women; for the vintage shall fail, the ingathering shall not come." — Isaiah 32:10 (ASV)

Many days and years ... —Literally, days to the year, a phrase after the pattern of add ye year to year (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.