Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Isaiah 5:13
No knowledge — No serious consideration of God's works, and of their own duty and danger. Honourable men — Who thought themselves quite out of the reach of famine.
No knowledge — No serious consideration of God's works, and of their own duty and danger. Honourable men — Who thought themselves quite out of the reach of famine.
Verse Isaiah 5:13. _AND THEIR HONOURABLE MEN_ - "And the nobles"] These verses have likewise a reference to the two preceding. They that indulged in feasting and drinking shall perish with hunger and...
THEREFORE MY PEOPLE ARE GONE - This is evidently used with reference to the “future.” The prophet described events as “passing before his eyes” as a vision (note, Isaiah 1:1); and he here seems to “se...
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...
MEN. Hebrew. _methim_ App-14....
WOE UNTO THEM THAT RISE UP, &C.— Another vice which the prophet reproves in these verses, is luxury or intemperance; whose companion and daughter is Inconsideration of the works of God, whose child al...
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...
Therefore my people are gone into captivity, because they have no knowledge: and their honourable men are famished, and their multitude dried up with thirst. THEREFORE MY PEOPLE ARE GONE INTO CAPT...
ARE GONE INTO CAPTIVITY] an example of the 'prophetic perfect.' The future is regarded as so certain that it is described as past....
1-24. Judah, God's unfruitful vineyard, and the judgment upon it....
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...
MY PEOPLE ARE GONE INTO CAPTIVITY. — The great captivity of Judah lay as yet far off, but the prophet may be speaking of it as already present in his vision of the future. Probably, however, the disas...
לָכֵ֛ן גָּלָ֥ה עַמִּ֖י מִ בְּלִי ־דָ֑עַת וּ
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...
Therefore my people (s) have gone into captivity, because [they have] (t) no knowledge: and their honourable men [are] famished, and their multitude dried up with thirst. (s) That is, will certainly...
How striking are these expressions! wine and dancing, revelling and music, rioting and sensuality, bring on their own punishments. Hell and the grave yawn to receive those who kill themselves by intem...
13._Therefore my people are gone into captivity. _I do not approve of the interpretation given by some commentators, that in consequence of the teachers having failed to perform their duty, the people...
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 MY PEOPLE ARE GONE INTO CAPTIVITY,.... Or rather, as Kimchi explains it, "shall go into captivity"; the past for the future; for this cannot be understood even of the captivity of the ten tr...
_Therefore my people are gone into captivity, because [they have] no knowledge: and their honourable men [are] famished, and their multitude dried up with thirst._ Ver. 13. _Therefore my people are g...
_Therefore the people are gone into captivity_ The prophet may refer to those carried captive in the time of Ahaz: see on Isaiah 2:20. Or his words may be rendered, _the people go into_, &c.; that is,...
A SIXFOLD WOE UPON THE JEWISH TRANSGRESSORS...
Therefore My people, as the Lord still affectionately calls them, ARE GONE INTO CAPTIVITY, the visitation of the Babylonian captivity being pictured as already taking place, BECAUSE THEY HAVE NO KNOWL...
THEIR HONOURABLE MEN ARE FAMISHED: _ Heb._ their glory are men of famine...
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...
ARE GONE INTO CAPTIVITY; either, 1. Are actually gone, which was true of the ten tribes in Hezekiah's reign, 2 KINGS 18:9, under whom this prophecy might be uttered; or, 2. Shall certainly and shortl...
Isaiah 5:13 people H5971 captivity H1540 (H8804) knowledge H1847 honorable H3519 men H4962 famished H7458 multitude H1995
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
_My people are gone into captivity, because they have no knowledge_ A SERMON FOR TRINITY SUNDAY 1_._ “My people.” The Almighty has a people of His own; a people with special privileges and a special...
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...
THE EVILS OF IGNORANCE (_Sunday School or Bible Society Sermon_.) Isaiah 5:13. _Therefore my people are gone away into captivity, because they have no knowledge, &c._ Isaiah speaks of the future as i...
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...
2 Chronicles 28:5; 2 Kings 17:6; 2 Peter 3:5; Amos 8:13; Hosea 4:6;...