Isaiah 32:19

“When it shall hail, coming down on the forest, &c.] The people of God will be peaceable and quiet, safe and secure, when the judgments of God, signified by a “hail” storm, shall come upon antichrist, and the antichristian states, intended by the “forest”, both for their numbers, and for their barrenness and unfruitfulness; (see <661621>Revelation 16:21) and as so it sometimes is, by the disposition of divine Providence, that a storm of hail falls not upon fields and gardens, and the fruits of the earth, but upon forests and desert lands; and as the plague of hail fell upon the Egyptians, and not upon the Israelites in Goshen, to which some think the allusion is here; so will it be when God…”

“Literally, "But it shall hail with coming down of the forest, and in lowness shall the city (Nineveh) be brought low; that is, humbled." The "hail" is Jehovah's wrathful visitation (Isa 30:30; Isa 28:2, Isa 28:17). The "forest" is the Assyrian host, dense as the trees of a forest (Isa 10:18-19, Isa 10:33-34; Zac 11:2).”

“When it shall hail - Hebrew, ברדת ברד bârad beredeth - ‘And it shall hail in coming down. There is a paranomasia in the original here, which cannot be expressed in a translation - a figure of speech, which, as we have seen, is common in Isaiah. ‘Hail’ is an image of divine vengeance or punishment; and the reference here is, doubtless, to the storms of indignation that would come on the enemies of the Jews, particularly on the Assyrians (see the notes at Isaiah 30:30). Coming down on the forest - Coming down on the army of the Assyrian, which is here called ‘a forest.’ The same term ‘forest’ is given to the army of the Assyrians in Isaiah 10:18-19, Isaiah 10:33-34. The sense is, that the…”

“It shall hail - As my blessings shall be poured down upon my people, who, from a wilderness, are turned into a fruitful field, so my judgments (which are signified by hail, Isa 28:2, Isa 28:17, and elsewhere) shall fall upon them, who were a fruitful field, but are turned into a forest, upon the unbelieving and rebellious Jews. The city - Jerusalem, which, though now it was the seat of God's worship and people, yet he foresaw, would be the great enemy of the Messiah. Low - Heb. shall be humbled with humiliation: shall be greatly humbled, or brought very low. Isaiah 32:20”

“32:19 the forest . . . the city: The godly would remain secure even with evidence of God’s judgment all around them.”

“it shall: Isa 25:4, Isa 28:2, Isa 28:17, Isa 30:30, Isa 37:24; Exo 9:18-26; Eze 13:11-13; Mat 7:25; Rev 8:7 on the: Zac 11:2 the city shall be low: or, the city shall be utterly abased, Isa 14:22, Isa 14:23, Isa 26:5; Nah 1:1, Nah 1:8, Nah 2:10-13; Rev 18:21 Isaiah 32:20”