Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Isaiah 1:5
Head — The very head and heart of the body politick, from whence the plague is derived to all the other members.
Head — The very head and heart of the body politick, from whence the plague is derived to all the other members.
Verse Isaiah 1:5. _WHY SHOULD YE BE STRICKEN ANY MORE_ - "On what part," c.?] The _Vulgate_ renders על מה _al meh, super quo_, (see Job 38:6; 2 Chronicles 32:10,) upon what part. And so _Abendana_ on...
WHY ... - The prophet now, by an abrupt change in the discourse, calls their attention to the effects of their sins. Instead of saving that they had been smitten, or of saying that they had been punis...
ANALYSIS AND ANNOTATIONS The reader will find that every chapter has been analyzed as to its contents. We have not made copious annotations, because the three lectures on the book of Isaiah as found a...
Let heaven and earth hear with amazement Yahweh's complaint. He has reared His people with the kindliest care, and _they_ (pathetic emphasis) have repaid Him with unfilial ingratitude. Ox and ass find...
WHY. ? Figure of speech _Erotesis_ App-6...
DISCOURSE: 857 THE SINPULNESS AND INCORRIGIBLENESS OF THE NATION Isaiah 1:4. _Ah, sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evil-doers, children that are corrupters! they have forsaken t...
_ISAIAH 1:5_. _Why should ye be stricken,_ &c. From the 4th to the 6th verse the prophet describes the mortal state of the people who had apostatized from God, and continued obstinate in that apostacy...
I. PERVERSITY AND PROPHET - Chapter S 1 - 6 CHAPTER ONE A. THE IMPEACHING ACCUSATION 1. CONTROVERSY DECLARED Isaiah 1:1-20 a. JEHOVAH'S COMPLAINT TEXT: Isaiah 1:1-9 1 The vision of Isaiah the so...
Why should ye be stricken any more? ye will revolt more and more: the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint. WHY, [ `al (H5921) meh (H4100)] or, as Vulgate, On What part. Image from a body...
1:5 more. (e-13) Lit. 'add (or 'increase') revolt.' see ch. 31.6....
JEHOVAH'S ARRAIGNMENT OF HIS PEOPLE This chapter is general in character, and much of it (e.g. Isaiah 1:10) might refer to almost any period. This general character of the prophecy renders it especial...
RV 'Why will ye be still stricken, that ye revolt?' etc. Why expose yourselves to further punishment? Read, 'Every head.. every heart.' The noblest parts of the body stand for the rulers and counsello...
The people in Israel suffer punishment because they refuse to change their evil behaviour. Isaiah frequently uses the title ‘Holy God of Israel’. Because God himself is holy, he expects his people to...
ISAIAH: GOD CONTROLS THE NATIONS ISAIAH DECLARES HOW GOD’S PEOPLE SHOULD BE LIVING ISAIAH CHAPTER S 1 TO 9 _NORMAN HILLYER_ CHAPTER 1 WHAT THIS BOOK IS ABOUT V1 Messages about Judah and *Jerus...
WHY SHOULD YE BE STRICKEN ANY MORE? YE WILL REVOLT MORE AND MORE. — Better, _by revolting more and more._ The prophet does not predict persistency in rebellion, but pleads against it. (Comp. “Why will...
עַ֣ל מֶ֥ה תֻכּ֛וּ עֹ֖וד תֹּוסִ֣יפוּ סָרָ֑ה כּ
CHAPTER I THE ARGUMENT OF THE LORD AND ITS CONCLUSION Isaiah 1:1 -His General Preface THE first chapter of the Book of Isaiah owes its position not to its date, but to its character. It was publishe...
THE INGRATITUDE OF A FAVORED NATION Isaiah 1:1-9 This chapter forms the preface to the prophecies of Isaiah. It is a clear and concise statement of the points at issue between Jehovah and His people....
Isaiah was a prophet to Judah. He exercised his ministry wholly within her borders, and with a view to her correction and comfort. His burdens of the nations were uttered concerning those nations whic...
Why should ye be (i) stricken any more? ye will revolt more and more: the whole (k) head is sick, and the whole heart faint. (i) What good is it to seek to mend you by punishment, seeing that the mor...
_Sad. This was spoken after Ozias had given way to pride, when the Ammonites, &c., began to disturb Juda, (4 Kings xv. 37., and 2 Paralipomenon xxvii. 7.) under Joathan, who was a good prince, but you...
How affecting are these verses! It is as if God paused over the state of his church. Their sin, like an epidemic disease, was universal. It did not break out in one or two instances of transgression;...
5._Why should ye be stricken any more _? Some render it, _Upon what _? or, _On what part _? and interpret the passage as if the Lord had said that he had not another scourge left; because so various a...
Isaiah 1 begins with a testimony to the sad condition of the people. They were all wounds and corruption. It was useless to chastise them any more. Their ceremonies were an abomination to Jehovah. He...
WHY SHOULD YE BE STRICKEN ANY MORE?.... Or "for what are ye stricken again" a? with afflictions and chastisements, with which God smites his people by way of correction for their sins, Isaiah 57:17 a...
Why should ye be stricken any more? ye will revolt more and more: the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint. Ver. 5. _Why should ye be stricken any more?_] This was the heaviest stroke that e...
_Why should ye be stricken any more_ It is to no purpose to seek to reclaim you by one chastisement after another; _ye will revolt more and more_ I see you are incorrigible, and turn even your afflict...
Why, that is, to what end and purpose, SHOULD YE BE STRICKEN ANY MORE? YE WILL REVOLT MORE AND MORE, or, "while ye are revolting more and more. " The case was such that Israel heaped rebellion upon bl...
THE DESOLATION OF ZION...
REVOLT MORE AND MORE: _ Heb._ increase revolt...
1-9 Isaiah signifies, "The salvation of the Lord;" a very suitable name for this prophet, who prophesies so much of Jesus the Saviour, and his salvation. God's professing people did not know or consi...
WHY SHOULD YE BE STRICKEN ANY MORE? it is to no purpose to seek to reclaim you by one chastisement after another; and therefore I will utterly forsake and destroy you at once. YE WILL REVOLT MORE AND...
Isaiah 1:5 stricken H5221 (H8714) revolt H5627 more H3254 (H8686) head H7218 sick H2483 heart H3824 faints...
THE MAJORITY ARE LIKE SODOM AND GOMORRAH (ISAIAH 1:4). Isaiah now describes the condition of Judah, which would include refugees from Israel. This can be analysed as follows: a Ah, sinful nation, a p...
HE CALLS ON CREATION TO BE AWARE OF GOD'S JUDGMENT ON HIS PEOPLE (ISAIAH 1:2). The book begins with a chiasmus, a pattern which had been commonly used in the Pentateuch, and which has also been depic...
ISAIAH OUTLINES THE MESSAGE HE IS BRINGING (ISAIAH 1:1). This introductory message is also presented in balanced chiastic form. a He calls on Creation to be aware of God's judgment on His people (Is...
Isaiah 1:1. _The vision of Isaiah the son of Amos, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah. Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth...
This is a chapter which, I think, teaches an important lesson to those of us who desire the salvation of men, for it shows us how God sets about that work. He begins by exhibiting the sinner's sin to...
Isaiah 1:1. _The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah._ During the time in which Isaiah prop...
May we be instructed of the Holy Ghost while we read this inspired Scripture! Isaiah 1:1. _The vision of Isaiah the son of Amos, which he saw_ Prophets were called seers, they saw what they were cal...
Isaiah 1:2. _Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth: for the Lord hath spoken, I have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against me. The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his ma...
CONTENTS: Charge against Israel for their ingratitude and degeneration. Call to repentance and reformation. CHARACTERS: God, Isaiah. CONCLUSION: The backslidings of those who have professed relations...
Isaiah 1:1. _The vision._ What the prophet saw with the eyes of his mind, concerning the state of Judah and Jerusalem, his ministry being chiefly confined to the kingdom of Judea. _Isaiah, the son of...
_Why should ye be stricken any more?_ THE POWER OF EVIL HABITS There are no passages in Holy Writ more affecting than those in which God seems to represent Himself as actually at a loss, not knowing...
_Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth: for the Lord hath spoken_ GOD FINDS VINDICATION IN NATURE I well remember two funerals going out of my house within a few brief months during my residence in...
ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 1:1 Introduction: “Ah, Sinful Nation!” The prophet rebukes God’s people and calls them to obey God’s word. He promises miraculous grace beyond judgment....
TOTAL DEPRAVITY Isaiah 1:5. The whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint. From the sole of the foot even unto the head there is no soundness in it; but wounds, and bruises, and putrefying sores;...
MORAL OBDURACY Isaiah 1:5. _Why should ye be stricken any more? ye will revolt more and more_. I. THE DANGER OF DESPISING THE DIVINE CHASTISEMENTS. Heedlessness destroys the very power of taking hee...
PART I.—EARLIER PROPHECIES OF ISAIAH (CH. 1-35.) SECTION I.—THE GREAT ARRAIGNMENT (Isaiah 1:1.). EXPOSITION Isaiah 1:1
The book of Isaiah is a marvelous book of prophecy. Of course, it is the longest book of prophecy in the Bible, and it would seem that God gave to Isaiah a clearer vision of the redemptive work of Jes...
2 Chronicles 28:22; Daniel 9:8; Ezekiel 24:13; Hebrews 12:5; I