Isaiah 32:10

10 You women feel safe now, but after one year you will be afraid. There will be no grape harvest and no summer fruit to gather.

Isaiah 32:10 Meaning and Commentary

Isaiah 32:10

Many days and years shall ye be troubled
Or, "days above a year" F11; a year, and somewhat more, yet not two years; which some understand of the time from this prophecy, until their troubles began, by the invasion of Sennacherib; and others of the continuance of it, it lasting more than a year; or, "days with a year"; so Kimchi, days upon a year, year upon year, one year after another; and so denotes a long duration of their troubles; and so the troubles of the Jews, before their utter destruction by the Romans, lasted a great while, and since to this day; for the prophecy respects those times. Kimchi says it may be interpreted of the destruction of the whole land of Israel, and of the destruction of the temple in the days of Zedekiah; or of the destruction of the second temple, that is, by the Romans:

for the vintage shall fail;
being spoiled by the enemy, or taken for their own use; and so there would be no wine to cheer their hearts, and make them merry:

the gathering shall not come;
of the other fruits of the earth; when the time of ingathering should come, at which there was a feast that bore that name, there should be none to be gathered in; the consequence of which must be a famine, and such there was before and at the destruction of Jerusalem by the Romans.


FOOTNOTES:

F11 (hnv le Mymy) "dies super annum", Vatablus; "dies ultra annum", Cocceius.

Isaiah 32:10 In-Context

8 But a good leader plans to do good, and those good things make him a good leader.
9 You women who are calm now, stand up and listen to me. You women who feel safe now, hear what I say.
10 You women feel safe now, but after one year you will be afraid. There will be no grape harvest and no summer fruit to gather.
11 Women, you are calm now, but you should shake with fear. Women, you feel safe now, but you should tremble. Take off your nice clothes and put rough cloth around your waist to show your sadness.
12 Beat your breasts in grief, because the fields that were pleasant are now empty. Cry, because the vines that once had fruit now have no more grapes.
Scripture taken from the New Century Version. Copyright © 1987, 1988, 1991 by Thomas Nelson, Inc. Used by permission. All rights reserved.