19 O people in Zion , inhabitant in Jerusalem , you will weep no longer . He will surely be gracious to you at the sound of your cry ; when He hears it, He will answer you. 20 Although the Lord has given you bread of privation and water of oppression , He, your Teacher will no longer hide Himself, but your eyes will behold your Teacher . 21 Your ears will hear a word behind e you, "This is the way , walk in it," whenever you turn to the right or to the left . 22 And you will defile your graven images overlaid with silver , and your molten images plated with gold . You will scatter them as an impure thing , and say to them, " Be gone !" 23 Then He will give you rain for the seed which you will sow in the ground , and bread from the yield of the ground , and it will be rich and plenteous ; on that day your livestock will graze in a roomy pasture . 24 Also the oxen and the donkeys which work the ground will eat salted fodder , which has been winnowed with shovel and fork . 25 On every lofty mountain and on every high hill there will be streams running with water on the day of the great slaughter , when the towers fall . 26 The light of the moon will be as the light of the sun , and the light of the sun will be seven times brighter, like the light of seven days , on the day the Lord binds up the fracture of His people and heals the bruise He has inflicted .

Matthew Henry's Commentary on Isaiah 30:19-26

Commentary on Isaiah 30:19-26

(Read Isaiah 30:19-26)

God's people will soon arrive at the Zion above, and then they will weep no more for ever. Even now they would have more comfort, as well as holiness, if they were more constant in prayer. A famine of bread is not so great a judgment as a famine of the word of God. There are right-hand and left-hand errors; the tempter is busy courting us into by-paths. It is happy if, by the counsels of a faithful minister or friend, or the checks of conscience, and the strivings of God the Spirit, we are set right when doubting, and prevented from going wrong. They shall be cured of their idolatry. To all true penitents sin becomes very hateful. This is shown daily in the conversion of souls, by the power of Divine grace, to the fear and love of God. Abundant means of grace, with the influences of the Holy Spirit, would be extended to places destitute of them. The effect of this should be comfort and joy to the people of God. Light, that is, knowledge, shall increase. This is the light which the gospel brought into the world, and which proclaims healing to the broken-hearted.