Matthew Poole and continuators on Isaiah 32:2

2. And a man shall be as an hiding place from the wind , and a covert from the tempest: as rivers of water in a dry place , as the shadow of a great rock in a weary land .

Either 1. the Man or King spoken of. Or 2. each or every one, to wit, of his Princes. That King shall not patch up an old Garment with new Cloth, nor mingle good and bad together; but shall take care to purge out all the corrupt Magistrates, and, as far as he can, to settle good Ones in all places. A man is oft put for every or any man, as Isa. 2. 20. and 3. 5, 6. and elsewhere.

Unto the People under their Government, especially to such as are oppressed or injured, by those who are more Potent than they.

From the rage and violence of evil Men.

No less refreshing and acceptable shall this King and his Princes be to their Subjects.

In a dry and scorched Country, which is called weary here, as also Psal. 63. 1. Metonymically, because it makes Travellers weary, as death is called pale in other Authors, because it makes men's Faces pale.

Marginal references: Heb. heavy.