Isaiah 32 · Verse 19

Isaiah 32:19

When it shall hail, coming down on the forest; and the city shall be low in a low place.
Isaiah 32:19, King James Version

Isaiah 32:19 in other translations

BSBBut hail will level the forest, and the city will sink to the depths.
WEBthough hail flattens the forest, and the city is leveled completely.
ASVBut it shall hail in the downfall of the forest; and the city shall be utterly laid low.
YLTAnd it hath hailed in the going down of the forest, And in the valley is the city low.
DARBYAnd it shall hail, coming down on the forest; and the city shall be low in a low place.
BBEBut the tall trees will come down with a great fall, and the town will be low in a low place.
WebsterWhen it shall hail, coming down on the forest; and the city shall be low in a low place.

What does Isaiah 32:19 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Isaiah 32:9-20

9-20. Address to the women of Jerusalem who troubled themselves little about the political signs of the times, but lived a life of self-indulgence (Is 3:16-23); the failure of food through the devastations of the enemy is here foretold, being what was most likely to affect them as mothers of families, heretofore accustomed to every luxury. Vitringa understands "women--daughters" as the cities and villages of Judea…

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Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 19 The city shalt be low all a low place. "The city shall be laid level with the plain" - For ובשפלה ubashephelah, the Syriac reads וכשפלה ukeshephelah. The city - probably Nineveh or Babylon: but this verse is very obscure. Saltus; Assyriorum regnum: civitas; magnifica Assyriorum castra. Ephrem Syr. ire loc. For וברד ubarad, a MS. has וירד vaiyered; and so conjectured Abp. Secker, referring to Zac 11:2.

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Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Isaiah 32:9-20

When there was so much provocation given to the holy God, bad times might be expected. Alas! how many careless ones there are, who support self-indulgence by shameful niggardliness! We deserve to be deprived of the supports of life, when we make them the food of lusts. Let such tremble and be troubled. Blessed times shall be brought in by the pouring out of the Spirit from on high; then, and not till then, there…

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Isaiah 32:19 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

וּבָרַ֖דu.va.Radand it will hailH1258
בְּרֶ֣דֶתbe.Re.detwhen comes downH3381
הַיָּ֑עַרhai.Ya.'arthe forestH3293
וּבַשִּׁפְלָ֖הu.va.shif.Lahand with <the> lownessH8218
תִּשְׁפַּ֥לtish.Palit will become lowH8213
הָעִֽיר\׃ha.'Irthe cityH5892

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Isaiah 32:19

  • Isaiah 28:17

    Judgment also will I lay to the line, and righteousness to the plummet: and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding place.

  • Isaiah 28:2

    Behold, the Lord hath a mighty and strong one, which as a tempest of hail and a destroying storm, as a flood of mighty waters overflowing, shall cast down to the earth with the hand.

  • Isaiah 30:30

    And the Lord shall cause his glorious voice to be heard, and shall shew the lighting down of his arm, with the indignation of his anger, and with the flame of a devouring fire, with scattering, and tempest, and hailstones.

  • Isaiah 26:5

    For he bringeth down them that dwell on high; the lofty city, he layeth it low; he layeth it low, even to the ground; he bringeth it even to the dust.

  • Zechariah 11:2

    Howl, fir tree; for the cedar is fallen; because the mighty are spoiled: howl, O ye oaks of Bashan; for the forest of the vintage is come down.

  • Revelation 8:7

    The first angel sounded, and there followed hail and fire mingled with blood, and they were cast upon the earth: and the third part of trees was burnt up, and all green grass was burnt up.

  • Nahum 2:10-13

    She is empty, and void, and waste: and the heart melteth, and the knees smite together, and much pain is in all loins, and the faces of them all gather blackness. Where is the dwelling of the lions, and the feedingplace of the young lions, where the lion, even the old lion, walked, and the lion’s whelp, and none made them afraid? The lion did tear in pieces enough for his whelps, and strangled for his lionesses, and filled his holes with prey, and his dens with ravin. Behold, I am against thee, saith the Lord of hosts, and I will burn her chariots in the smoke, and the sword shall devour thy young lions: and I will cut off thy prey from the earth, and the voice of thy messengers shall no more be heard.

  • Isaiah 14:22-23

    For I will rise up against them, saith the Lord of hosts, and cut off from Babylon the name, and remnant, and son, and nephew, saith the Lord. I will also make it a possession for the bittern, and pools of water: and I will sweep it with the besom of destruction, saith the Lord of hosts.

  • Nahum 1:8

    But with an overrunning flood he will make an utter end of the place thereof, and darkness shall pursue his enemies.

  • Nahum 1:1

    The burden of Nineveh. The book of the vision of Nahum the Elkoshite.

  • Exodus 9:18-26

    Behold, to morrow about this time I will cause it to rain a very grievous hail, such as hath not been in Egypt since the foundation thereof even until now. Send therefore now, and gather thy cattle, and all that thou hast in the field; for upon every man and beast which shall be found in the field, and shall not be brought home, the hail shall come down upon them, and they shall die. He that feared the word of the Lord among the servants of Pharaoh made his servants and his cattle flee into the houses: And he that regarded not the word of the Lord left his servants and his cattle in the field. …

  • Revelation 18:21

    And a mighty angel took up a stone like a great millstone, and cast it into the sea, saying, Thus with violence shall that great city Babylon be thrown down, and shall be found no more at all.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
it shall.
25:4; 28:2,17; 30:30; 37:24; Ex 9:18-26; Eze 13:11-13; Mt 7:25
Re 8:7
on the.
Zec 11:2
the city shall be low. or, the city shall be utterly abased.
14:22,23; 26:5; Na 1:1,8; 2:10-13; Re 18:21

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Context

  • Isaiah 32:18

    And my people shall dwell in a peaceable habitation, and in sure dwellings, and in quiet resting places;

  • Isaiah 32:19

    When it shall hail, coming down on the forest; and the city shall be low in a low place.

  • Isaiah 32:20

    Blessed are ye that sow beside all waters, that send forth thither the feet of the ox and the ass.

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Isaiah 32:19 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
Y el granizo, cuando descendiere, será en los montes; y la ciudad será del todo abatida.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
Et la grêle tombera sur la forêt, et la ville sera abaissée dans un lieu bas.
German
Elberfelder 1871
Und es wird hageln beim Niedersturz des Waldes, und die Stadt wird in Niedrigkeit versinken. -
Latin
Clementine Vulgate
Grando autem in descensione saltus, et humilitate humiliabitur civitas.