The Meaning of Isaiah 32:10 Explained

Isaiah 32:10

KJV: Many days and years shall ye be troubled, ye careless women: for the vintage shall fail, the gathering shall not come.

YLT: Days and a year ye are troubled, O confident ones, For consumed hath been harvest, The gathering cometh not.

Darby: In a year and some days shall ye be troubled, ye careless women; for the vintage shall fail, the ingathering shall not come.

ASV: For days beyond a year shall ye be troubled, ye careless women; for the vintage shall fail, the ingathering shall not come.

KJV Reverse Interlinear

Many days  and years  shall ye be troubled,  ye careless women:  for the vintage  shall fail,  the gathering  shall not come. 

What does Isaiah 32:10 Mean?

Verse Meaning

In just over a year something devastating would happen that would preclude the harvest of grapes that they must have anticipated eagerly.

Context Summary

Isaiah 32:9-20 - The Fruits Of Righteousness
When Christ's kingdom is set up it will bring dismay to the poor children of fashion. For more days than there are in the year will they be troubled, Isaiah 32:10, and will smite on their breasts in lamentation, Isaiah 32:12. The prediction of Isaiah 32:15-20 includes Pentecost, and looks forward to the era which lies immediately beyond this travail of the world. What is now reckoned as a fruitful field will be regarded as a barren forest in comparison with what shall then exist. Let us remember that righteousness must precede peace. See Matthew 5:24 and Hebrews 7:2. When God's judgments are hurtling through the air, and proud cities are being leveled to the earth, let us take refuge in His loving care. In Him are our safe dwellings and our quiet resting-places. But when the world is most unquiet, let us pursue our work of salvation; for when waters overflow the banks of the river, oxen and asses may still be sent forth to make furrows for the harvest seed. [source]

Chapter Summary: Isaiah 32

1  The blessings of Christ's kingdom
9  Desolation is foreshown
14  Restoration is promised to succeed

What do the individual words in Isaiah 32:10 mean?

And [some] days in a year You will be troubled you complacent women for will fail the vintage the gathering not will come
יָמִים֙ עַל־ שָׁנָ֔ה תִּרְגַּ֖זְנָה בֹּֽטְח֑וֹת כִּ֚י כָּלָ֣ה בָצִ֔יר אֹ֖סֶף בְּלִ֥י יָבֽוֹא

יָמִים֙  And  [some]  days 
Parse: Noun, masculine plural
Root: יׄום 
Sense: day, time, year.
שָׁנָ֔ה  a  year 
Parse: Noun, feminine singular
Root: שָׁנָה  
Sense: year.
תִּרְגַּ֖זְנָה  You  will  be  troubled 
Parse: Verb, Qal, Imperfect, third person feminine plural
Root: רָגַז  
Sense: tremble, quake, rage, quiver, be agitated, be excited, be perturbed.
בֹּֽטְח֑וֹת  you  complacent  women 
Parse: Verb, Qal, Participle, feminine plural
Root: בָּטוּחַ 
Sense: to trust.
כָּלָ֣ה  will  fail 
Parse: Verb, Qal, Perfect, third person masculine singular
Root: כָּלָה  
Sense: to accomplish, cease, consume, determine, end, fail, finish, be complete, be accomplished, be ended, be at an end, be finished, be spent.
בָצִ֔יר  the  vintage 
Parse: Noun, masculine singular
Root: בָּצִיר 
Sense: vintage.
אֹ֖סֶף  the  gathering 
Parse: Noun, masculine singular
Root: אֹסֶף  
Sense: gathering, collection, harvest.
יָבֽוֹא  will  come 
Parse: Verb, Qal, Imperfect, third person masculine singular
Root: בֹּוא 
Sense: to go in, enter, come, go, come in.