Until the spirit be poured upon us from on high, and the wilderness be a fruitful field, and the fruitful field be counted for a forest.
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Gill's Exposition
Until the Spirit be poured upon us from on high,.... That is, Jerusalem shall lie in ruins until this time comes; which therefore cannot be understood of the effusion of the Spirit on the day of…
Barnes' Notes
Until the Spirit - The Spirit of God, as the source of all blessings, and especially as able to meet and remove the ills of the long calamity and desolation. This evidently refers to some future…
In these verses we have God rising up to judgment against the vile persons, to punish them for their villainy; but at length returning in mercy to the liberal, to reward them for their liberality.
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Cambridge Bible
At last the great transformation of all things will be ushered in, by an outpouring of spirit(the Heb. has no art.) from on high; i.e. from heaven, as in ch. Isa 33:5. The spirit, conceived as a…
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