George Haydock's Catholic Commentary
Isaiah 5:17
Strangers. Ammonites, &c., (Calmet) shall occupy part of the land. (Haydock)
Strangers. Ammonites, &c., (Calmet) shall occupy part of the land. (Haydock)
Verse Isaiah 5:17. _THE LAMBS_ - "And the kids"] גרים _gerim_, "strangers." The _Septuagint_ read, more agreeably to the design of the prophet, כרים _carim_, αρνες, "the lambs." גדים _gedayim_, "the...
THEN SHALL THE LAMBS FEED - This verse is very variously interpreted. Most of the Hebrew commentators have followed the Chaldee interpretation, and have regarded it as desired to console the pious par...
CHAPTER 5 The Song of the Vineyard and the Six Woes 1. _The song of the vineyard and Jehovah's lament (Isaiah 5:1)_ 2. _The judgment upon the vineyard (Isaiah 5:5)_ 3. _The wild grapes (Isaiah 5:8)_...
A SERIES OF DENUNCIATIONS ON VARIOUS OFFENDERS. This section contains a collection of Woes, originally independent and even now not woven into a single symmetrical address. Whether they come from diff...
STRANGERS. foreigners....
THEN SHALL THE LAMBS FEED, &C.— Vitringa is of opinion, that this verse refers to the first disciples of Jesus Christ, who, seeing and deploring the destruction of the Jews, should rest safely under t...
THE WOES OF APPLICATION TEXT: Isaiah 5:8-23 8 Woe unto them that join house to house, that lay field to field, till there be no room, and ye be made to dwell alone in the midst of the land ! 9 In...
Then shall the lambs feed after their manner, and the waste places of the fat ones shall strangers eat. THEN SHALL THE LAMBS FEED AFTER THEIR MANNER - kªdaabªraam (H1699); literally, according to t...
5:17 ones (i-17) i.e. rich men....
1-24. Judah, God's unfruitful vineyard, and the judgment upon it....
AFTER THEIR MANNER] RV 'as in their pasture.' So desolate will the cities be. STRANGERS] RM 'wanderers.' The meaning is that nomad tribes wander over the land at pleasure....
Nobody remains to look after the farmer’s animals. PEOPLE WHO REFUSE A MORAL LIFE V18 People are unable to free themselves from their wicked practices. V19 They even insult the Holy God of Israel a...
ISAIAH: GOD CONTROLS THE NATIONS ISAIAH DECLARES HOW GOD’S PEOPLE SHOULD BE LIVING ISAIAH CHAPTER S 1 TO 9 _NORMAN HILLYER_ CHAPTER 5 Chapter 5 begins with a parable (a story with a double mean...
THEN SHALL THE LAMBS FEED AFTER THEIR MANNER. — Better, _feed even as on their pasture._ The meaning is clear enough. The lands that have been gained by oppression shall, in the day of retribution, be...
וְ רָע֥וּ כְבָשִׂ֖ים כְּ דָבְרָ֑ם וְ חָרְבֹ֥ו
CHAPTER III THE VINEYARD OF THE LORD, OR TRUE PATRIOTISM THE CONSCIENCE OF OUR COUNTRY'S SINS 735 B.C. Isaiah 5:1; Isaiah 9:8 - Isaiah 10:4 THE prophecy contained in these Chapter s belongs, as we...
A DISAPPOINTING HARVEST Isaiah 5:1-17 In a picture of great beauty, Isaiah describes a vineyard situated on one of the sunny heights visible from Jerusalem. Every care which an experienced vine-dress...
With the thought of judgment, and the necessity for it still in mind, the prophet utters his great denunciation. This falls into three parts. The first is a song of accusation. By the simple and famil...
Then shall (x) the lambs feed after their manner, and the waste places of the fat ones shall strangers eat. (x) God comforts the poor lambs of his Church, who had been strangers in other countries, p...
Here is a sweet break to the sad account, which, like some herbage to the traveler over a desert, comes in to our relief in these verses. Jesus will be exalted in the hearts of his redeemed, in the wo...
17._And the lambs shall feed after their manner. _Some render it _according to their measure_, or, _in proportion to their capacity_, but it means _in the usual manner_. There are various ways of expl...
After this the Spirit of God begins to plead with the people, taking two distinct grounds-namely, that which God had done for His people, and the coming of Jehovah in the Person of Christ in glory. Ha...
THEN SHALL THE LAMBS FEED AFTER THEIR MANNER,.... That is, the people of God, the disciples of Christ, either apostles and ministers of the Gospel, whom he sent forth as lambs among wolves, Luke 10:3...
Then shall the lambs feed after their manner, and the waste places of the fat ones shall strangers eat. Ver. 17. _Then shall the lambs feed after their manner,_] _i.e., _ Freely and quietly. By lambs...
_And the mean man_, &c. All of them, both high and low, shall be brought to destruction. _But the Lord shall be exalted in judgment_ By the execution of his just judgment upon his incorrigible enemies...
A SIXFOLD WOE UPON THE JEWISH TRANSGRESSORS...
Then shall the lambs feed after their manner, as on their usual pasturage, AND THE WASTE PLACES OF THE FAT ONES SHALL STRANGERS EAT, the nomad tribes of the desert again occupying the land which had b...
8-23 Here is a woe to those who set their hearts on the wealth of the world. Not that it is sinful for those who have a house and a field to purchase another; but the fault is, that they never know w...
THEN; when God shall have finished that work of judgment upon the ungodly, he will extend mercy to a remainder. This is very usual in this prophet, in the midst of his threatenings, to insert somethin...
Isaiah 5:17 lambs H3532 feed H7462 (H8804) pasture H1699 places H2723 ones H4220 strangers H1481 (H8802) eat...
THE SECOND WOE (ISAIAH 5:11). Isaiah 5:11 ‘Woe to those who rise up early in the morning, That they may follow strong drink, Who tarry late into the night, Until wine inflames them. And the harp...
THE SIX WOES OF GOD (ISAIAH 5:8). A series of woes are now declared on the people of Israel because of their various sins. The vineyard had produced smelly grapes, now woe must come on it. They are a...
Isaiah 5:1. _Now will I sing to my well-beloved a song of my beloved touching his vineyard. My Well-beloved hath a vineyard in a very fruitful hill:_ The Song of the Vineyard is by no means a joyful...
CONTENTS: Parable of Jehovah's vineyard and the six woes upon Israel. CHARACTERS: God. CONCLUSION: God expects vineyard fruit from those who enjoy vineyard privileges, not the mere leaves of profess...
Isaiah 5:1. _My well-beloved;_ the Messiah, who certainly was Lord of the Vineyard, and the men of Judah were his pleasant plants. Psalms 80:14; Ezekiel 17:6; Ho
ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 5:1 Isaiah’s introductory diagnosis of Judah’s spiritual decline (chs. Isaiah 1:1) concludes with a description of his generation’s apostasy and its consequences. The chapter is...
NATIONAL UNGODLINESS Isaiah 5:11. _Woe unto them that rise up early in the morning, that they may follow strong drink, &c._ National ungodliness. I. ITS PHASES, dissipation, drunkenness, forgetfuln...
WILD GRAPES Isaiah 5:8. _Woe unto them that join house to house, &c._ It is important to remember that this whole chapter constitutes one prophecy. Much of the power of its teaching will be lost, if...
EXPOSITION ISAIAH 5:1 ISRAEL REBUKED BY THE PARABLE OF A VINEYARD. This chapter stands in a certain sense alone, neither closely connected with what precedes nor with what follows, excepting that it...
Now in the fifth chapter the Lord takes up the parable of a vineyard in which He likens Judah or Israel, His people, unto a vineyard. Now will I sing to my well-beloved a song of my beloved touching...
Amos 4:1; Deuteronomy 28:33; Deuteronomy 32:15; Hosea 8:7; Isaiah 1:7;
Then — When God shall have finished that work of judgment. The lambs — The poor and harmless people, who shall be left in the land when the rich are carried into captivity. Manner — Or, by their fold,...