George Haydock's Catholic Commentary
Isaiah 5:25
Still. After the ruin of Jerusalem, the people were led away. (Calmet) --- Grievous sins must be severely punished, as was that of the murderers of Christ. (Worthington)
Still. After the ruin of Jerusalem, the people were led away. (Calmet) --- Grievous sins must be severely punished, as was that of the murderers of Christ. (Worthington)
Verse Isaiah 5:25. _THE HILLS DID TREMBLE _- "And the mountains trembled"] Probably referring to the great earthquakes in the days of Uzziah king of Judah, in or not long before the time of the proph...
THEREFORE IS THE ANGER OF THE LORD KINDLED - The Lord is “enraged,” or is angry. Similar expressions often occur; Num 11:33; 2 Kings 23:26; Deuteronomy 11:17; Psa 56:1-13 :40;...
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)_...
THE LAST STROKE. It is generally agreed that this belongs to Isaiah 9:8 to Isaiah 10:4, each strophe of which closes with the same refrain as Isaiah 5:25. Unhappily, except for this closing verse, the...
STRETCHED FORTH: in judgment. TORN IN THE MIDST OF THE STREETS. as the sweepings of the streets. FOR ALL THIS, &C. Compare the Reference to Pent, in the fivefold consequence of Isaiah 5:25; Isaiah 9:...
THEREFORE IS THE ANGER OF THE LORD KINDLED, &C.— The meaning is, that God, before the time of that final vengeance concerning which the prophesy treats principally, had afflicted this rebellious peopl...
THE WRATH OF JUDGMENT TEXT: Isaiah 5:24-30 24 Therefore as the tongue of fire devoureth the stubble, and as the dry grass sinketh down in the flame, so their root shall be as rottenness, and their b...
Therefore is the anger of the LORD kindled against his people, and he hath stretched forth his hand against them, and hath smitten them: and the hills did tremble, and their carcases were torn in the...
5:25 dung (c-34) Or possibly 'were cast away.'...
1-24. Judah, God's unfruitful vineyard, and the judgment upon it....
He uses nature. This includes a great *earthquake (see Amos 1:1; Zechariah 14:5). Bodies that nobody has buried are a common sight after a major *earthquake....
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...
THE HILLS DID TREMBLE. — We again trace the influence of the earthquake which was still fresh in the memories of men. (See Note on Isaiah 2:10.) THEIR CARCASES WERE TORN. — Better, _were as sweepings,...
עַל ־כֵּ֡ן חָרָה֩ אַף ־יְהוָ֨ה בְּ עַמֹּ֜ו
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...
WARNING AGAINST PRIDE, INTEMPERANCE, AND CORRUPTION Isaiah 5:18-30 The wild grapes of Judah are here continued: blind atheism, Isaiah 5:18-20; proud self-conceit, Isaiah 5:21; drunkenness, Isaiah 5:...
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...
Therefore is the anger of the LORD kindled against his people, and he hath stretched forth his (e) hand against them, and hath smitten them: and the hills trembled, and their carcases [were] torn in t...
Here are accounts of still increasing wickedness, and woes of still increasing misery. Reader, in the present Christ despising generation, doth not the prophet's representation suit, as though written...
25._Therefore is the anger of the LORD kindled. _In this verse the Prophet relates the former punishments which the Jews had already endured, and shows that they are not near an end; but that, on the...
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...
THEREFORE IS THE ANGER OF THE LORD KINDLED AGAINST HIS PEOPLE,.... His professing people; which character, as it aggravated their sin in rejecting and despising the word of the Lord, so it increased h...
Therefore is the anger of the LORD kindled against his people, and he hath stretched forth his hand against them, and hath smitten them: and the hills did tremble, and their carcases [were] torn in th...
_Therefore is the anger of the Lord kindled_ This implies that, before the time of that final vengeance, concerning which the prophecy principally treats, God had afflicted, or, rather, would afflict...
Therefore is the anger of the Lord kindled against His people, and He hath stretched forth His hand against them and hath smitten them, the scene again being painted before the eyes of the people, in...
A SIXFOLD WOE UPON THE JEWISH TRANSGRESSORS...
TORN: or as dung...
24-30 Let not any expect to live easily who live wickedly. Sin weakens the strength, the root of a people; it defaces the beauty, the blossoms of a people. When God's word is despised, and his law ca...
THE HILLS DID TREMBLE; a metaphorical and hyperbolical description of a grievous calamity, familiar in the prophets, as ISAIAH 64:1,2 JER 4:24, and in other authors. HIS HAND IS STRETCHED OUT STILL, r...
Isaiah 5:25 anger H639 LORD H3068 aroused H2734 (H8804) people H5971 out H5186 (H8799) hand H3027 stricken...
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...
THE PRIME SOURCE OF THEIR PUNISHMENT (ISAIAH 5:25). Isaiah 5:25 ‘Therefore is the anger of Yahweh kindled against his people, And he has stretched out his hand against them, and has smitten them,...
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
_Therefore is the anger of the Lord kindled against His people_ THE PROPHECY EXPLAINED Jehovah is about to bring foreign armies as the instruments of His judgment; the vision of the worst of human c...
_Therefore as the fire devoureth the stubble_ SIN BRINGS JUDGMENT IN ITS TRAIN Let not those expect to live easily that live thus wickedly, for the righteous God wilt take vengeance. Observe-- I. H...
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...
THE DOOM OF IMPENITENT ISRAEL Isaiah 5:24. _Therefore as the fire devoureth, &c._ In this threatening, fulfilled in the utter destruction of Israel by Assyria, we find illustrations of the following...
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...
1 Kings 14:11; 1 Kings 16:4; 1 Kings 21:24; 1 Thessalonians 2:16;...