Today, I am reading and commenting on Isaiah 32-35.

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Today’s passage begins with Isaiah telling us that a king will come and reign in righteousness.  He tells us that when that day comes the eyes of those who see will no longer be closed and the ears of those who hear will give attention.  This refers back to Isaiah 6 where God told the him to tell the people that they hear without understanding and see without perceiving, which is why they do not turn to God for healing.  Jesus told His disciples that He taught in parables as a reference to both that passage from Isaiah 6 and today’s passage.  Because they accepted the King to whom Isaiah refers in today’s passage their eyes were not closed and they gave attention to what they heard.  In chapter 6 Isaiah said that the people’s hearts were dull and did not understand.  Here he says that hasty hearts will understand and know.  My suspicion is that the Hebrew word translated as “dull” in chapter 6 and the Hebrew word translated here as “hasty” would have been understood by the original readers of this as antonyms, as opposites.  I think there is more to the connection between today’s passage and Jesus’ reference to chapter 6 (which then indirectly references this passage).  Here Isaiah says that “the tongue of the stammerers will hasten to speak distinctly.”  Jesus’ disciples were not men trained in oratory.  Yet they became public speakers who brought many to the Lord.  So, also, if we open our eyes to see what God is doing, and listen with our ears so that we understand what He is saying, we will find God putting words into our mouths and making us speak so that people will listen and hear what God has to say.

At the end of today’s passage it refers back to this same set of ideas from a different perspective.  Isaiah says that they shall see the glory of the Lord and then the eyes of the blind shall be opened and the ears of the deaf shall hear.  At the beginning of today’s passage it talked about how the fool will no longer be called noble and the scoundrel no longer honored.  I want to note that the Hebrew word translated as “fool” carries strong connotations of someone with no morals.  When Isaiah speaks of those who will see the glory of God he says that they will walk on a way which the unclean will not be able to trod, but that those who walk on it shall not go astray, not even if they are fools.  So, even those who lack morals shall be able to walk a just and clean life if they choose to follow the Way which Jesus has shown us.

I use the daily Bible reading schedule from “The Bible.net” for my daily Bible reading.