Teks -- Isaiah 32:20 (NET)

32:20 you will be blessed, you who plant seed by all the banks of the streams, you who let your ox and donkey graze.

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Wesley: Isa 32:20 - Blessed

As the barren forest shall be destroyed, so the fruitful field shall be improved, and bring forth much fruit; which is signified by a declaration of the blessedness of them that sow in it.

Wesley: Isa 32:20 - Waters

In all moist grounds, which are like to yield good fruit. But this also is to be understood of the times of the gospel, and of the great and happy success of the ministers of it.

Wesley: Isa 32:20 - The ox

Which they employed in plowing and sowing the ground.

JFB: Isa 32:20

While the enemy shall be brought "low," the Jews shall cultivate their land in undisturbed prosperity.

JFB: Isa 32:20 - all waters

Well-watered places (Isa 30:25). The Hebrew translation, "beside," ought rather to be translated, "upon" (Ecc 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, &c., 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 (Col 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 Isa 30:24.

Clarke: Isa 32:20

That sow beside all waters "Who sow your seed in every well-watered place"- Sir John Chardin’ s note on this place is: "This exactly answers the manner of planting rice; for they sow it upon the water, and before sowing, while the earth is covered with water, they cause the ground to be trodden by oxen, horses, and asses, who go mid-leg deep; and this is the way of preparing the ground for sowing. As they sow the rice on the water, they transplant it in the water. "Harmer’ s Observ. vol. 1 p. 280. "Rice is the food of two-thirds of mankind."Dr. Arbuthnot. "It is cultivated in most of the eastern countries."Miller. "It is good for all, and at all times."Sir J. Chardin, ib. " Le ris, qui est leur principal aliment et leur froment (i.e., des Siamois ), n’ est jamais assez arrose; il croit au milieu de l’ eau, et les campagnes ou on le cultive ressemblent plutot a de marets que non pas a des terres qu’ on laboure aver la charue. Le ris a bien cette force, que quoy qu’ il y ait six ou sept pieds d’ eau sur lui, il pousse toujours sa tige au dessus; et le tuyau qui le porte s’ eleve et croit a proportion de la hauteur de l’ eau qui noye son champ . Voyage de l’ Eveque de Beryte, p. 144. Paris, 1666. - L. "Rice, which is the principal grain and aliment of the Siamese, can never be too much watered. It grows in the water, and the fields where it is sown resemble marshes rather than fields cultivated by ploughing. Rice has that property that although it be covered with water six or seven feet deep, yet it raises its stalk above it; and this grows long in proportion to the depth of the water by which the field is inundated."

Calvin: Isa 32:20 - Blessed are ye

20.Blessed are ye He shews how great will be the change, when Christ shall begin to reign; for he had formerly said that so great would be the desolation, that “thorns and briers” would overspread the holy land, costly houses would be thrown down, and cities and palaces would be levelled with the earth. This would happen, when the incessant attacks of enemies should lay that country desolate. But now he says that they shall be blessed, because God will give them abundant produce of all fruits. That fertility which might have been described in simple language, he illustrates by figures, that they shall “sow in marshes,” and shall “send forth their cattle” into the fields without dread of losing them.

By waters some understand a rich and fertile soil; but the universal particle כל , ( chōl,) all, leads me to take a different view; as if he had said, “Places which were overrun with waters shall be fit for sowing, and there will be no reason to fear that the water shall spoil our fields.” We are accustomed also to drive away oxen, and asses, and other animals, from fields, and especially from sown fields, that they may not eat the corn. But here he says that the corn will grow so thick and plentifully, that it shall be necessary to send oxen and asses to crop the early blade, as is commonly done when the corn is luxuriant. ³⁴⁶

He calls them blessed, in accordance with the usage of the Hebrew language, because their labor will never be unprofitable. If it be objected that, under the reign of Christ, such fertility has never been seen, I acknowledge that, even when God has shewn the highest kindness to his people, still there have always been visible marks of the curse, which was entailed on mankind by the fall and revolt of Adam. (Gen 3:17.) But since Christ has restored to believers the inheritance of the world, with good reason do the prophets assert that he would renew the earth, so as to remove its filthiness and restore that beauty which it had lost. They who complain that it is not yet fulfilled, ought to consider whether or not they themselves are purified from every stain of sin. And if they are still at a great distance from spiritual righteousness, let them be satisfied with enjoying the blessing of God according to the measure of regeneration, the full enjoyment of which we must not expect to obtain, till, freed from the pollution of the flesh, we shall bear the perfect image of God.

TSK: Isa 32:20 - Blessed // the ox

Blessed : Isa 19:5-7, Isa 30:23, Isa 55:10,Isa 55:11; Ecc 11:1; Act 2:41, Act 4:4, Act 5:14; 1Co 3:6; Jam 3:18

the ox : Isa 30:24; 1Co 9:9-11

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Poole: Isa 32:20 - Blessed are ye that sow // Beside all waters // The ox and the ass

Blessed are ye that sow: as the barren forest shall be destroyed with hail, Isa 32:19 , so the fruitful field shall be improved, and bring forth much fruit; which is signified by a declaration of the blessedness of them that sow in it.

Beside all waters in all moist and fat grounds, which are like to yield good fruit. But this passage, as well as others in the foregoing verses, is to be understood mystically, and seems to respect the times of the gospel. The prophet reflecting upon his own unsuccessful labours, of which he complains, Isa 49:4 , and elsewhere, and foreseeing by, the Spirit the great and happy success of his successors, the ministers of the gospel, tacitly bewails his own unhappiness, who sowed his seed upon dry and barren ground, by congratulating the happiness of the apostles, who sowed their seed more generally, upon all fit grounds, without any distinction between Jews and Gentiles; and who found the ground, to wit, the hearts of the people, more moistened and softened, and better prepared to receive the good seed of God’ s word.

The ox and the ass which creatures they employed in ploughing and sowing the ground, Deu 22:10 Psa 144:14 Isa 30:24 .

Haydock: Isa 32:20 - Waters

Waters. Fruitful soils, abounding with cattle. (Calmet) ---

Both Jews and Gentiles shall submit to Christ. (Clement of Alexandria, Strom. vi.) (St. Jerome)

Gill: Isa 32:20 - Blessed are ye that sow beside all waters // that send forth thither the feet of the ox and the ass

Blessed are ye that sow beside all waters,.... In places well watered and moistened, and so fit to receive the seed sown, which grows up, and brings forth much fruit, and amply rewards the pains of the sower, who on that account is happy. These words are directed to the ministers of the Gospel in the latter day; the word is compared to seed, and the preachers of it to sowers of seed, who have a commission to preach the Gospel to every creature; and in the latter day, in the spiritual reign of Christ, to which the whole paragraph refers, they will sow the seed of the word "by many waters"; or among great multitudes of people, signified hereby, and with great success, great numbers both of Jews and Gentiles will be converted:

that send forth thither the feet of the ox and the ass; which were used in ploughing and tilling the earth, and in making it fit to sow the seed in it, and to eat off the heads of grain when it is grown thick and full, which some think is here meant; and the one might also be used to gather it in when ripe, and the other to tread and thresh it, as the Targum and Jarchi interpret it; there being a law given the Jews, that these two should not work together, Deu 22:10 and from hence it may be concluded, that these words refer to a time when this law should be abolished; and the Jews themselves apply it to the times of the Messiah ^r; and it undoubtedly points to Gospel times, and even to those times when the Jews shall be converted, and great numbers among the Gentiles also, who shall join together in spreading the Gospel, and in promoting the interest of Christ.