Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
Many days and years--rather, "In little more than a year" [MAURER]; literally, "days upon a year" (so Isaiah 29:1).
vintage shall fail--through the arrival of the Assyrian invader. As the wheat harvest is omitted, Isaiah must look for the invasion in the summer or autumn of 714 B.C., when the wheat would have been secured already, and the later fruit "gathering," and vintage would be still in danger.
Address to the women of Jerusalem who troubled themselves little about the political signs of the times, but lived a life of self-indulgence ( 0:0-1:1--daughters" as the cities and villages of Judea (Eze. 16:1-63). See Amos 6:1.
Other commentary entries containing this verse:
Isaiah 29:1
Isaiah 31:9
Isaiah 33:4
Isaiah 37:30
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