The Great Isaiah Scroll, the best preserved of the biblical scrolls found at Qumran from the second century BC, contains all the verses in this chapter.
The parashah sections listed here are based on the Aleppo Codex.[6] Isaiah 32 is a part of the Prophecies about Judah and Israel (Isaiah 24–35). {P}: open parashah; {S}: closed parashah.
{P} 32:1-8 {S} 32:9-20 {S}
Structure
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges describes verses 1 to 8 as "the ideal commonwealth of the Messianic Age" and dates this section "to the close of Isaiah’s ministry, when his mind was occupied with the hope of the ideal future".[3]
This "threatening oration" [3] is linked in the Jerusalem Bible to other "oracles of the return from exile".[8] Verse 9 shows that "what roused the ire of the prophet was the careless unconcern and indifference of the women in face of the reiterated warnings he had uttered".[3]
The peace of God’s reign (32:16–20)
Verse 17
And the work of righteousness shall be peace; and the effect of righteousness quietness and assurance for ever.[9]
"Quietness and assurance": "calmness and security"[10]
