Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
While the enemy shall be brought "low," the Jews shall cultivate their land in undisturbed prosperity.
all waters—well-watered places (Isaiah 30:25). The Hebrew translation, "beside," ought rather to be translated, "upon" (Ecclesiastes 11:1), where the meaning is, "Cast thy seed upon the waters when the river overflows its banks; the seed will sink into the mud and will spring up when the waters subside, and you will find it after many days in a rich harvest." Before sowing, they send oxen, etc., into the water to tread the ground for sowing. CASTALIO thinks there is an allusion to the Mosaic precept, not to plough with an ox and ass together, mystically implying that the Jew was to have no intercourse with Gentiles; the Gospel abolishes this distinction (Colossians 3:11); thus the sense here is, Blessed are ye that sow the gospel seed without distinction of race in the teachers or the taught. But there is no need of supposing that the ox and ass here are yoked together; they are probably "sent forth" separately, as in Isaiah 30:24.
Address to the women of Jerusalem who troubled themselves little about the political signs of the times, but lived a life of self-indulgence ( 0:0-1:1—daughters" as the cities and villages of Judea (Eze. 16:1-63). See Amos 6:1.
Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing Isaiah 32:20:
Ecclesiastes 11:1
Isaiah 31:9
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