Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
This can only partially apply to the spiritual revival in Hezekiah's time; its full accomplishment belongs to the Christian dispensation, first at Pentecost (Joel 2:28; Acts 2:17), perfectly in coming times (Psalms 104:30; Ezekiel 36:26; Ezekiel 39:29; Zechariah 12:10), when the Spirit shall be poured on Israel, and through it on the Gentiles (Micah 5:7).
wilderness . . . fruitful field . . . forest--when Judea, so long waste, shall be populous and fruitful, and the land of the enemies of God shall be desolate. Or, "the field, now fruitful, shall be but as a barren forest in comparison with what it shall be then" (Isaiah 29:17). The barren shall become fruitful by regeneration; those already regenerate shall bring forth fruits in such abundance that their former life shall seem but as a wilderness where no fruits were.
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 29:17
Isaiah 31:9
Isaiah 32:14
Isaiah 32:16
Isaiah 41:19
Isaiah 44:3
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