Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Isaiah 5:20
To them — That take away the difference between good and evil; that justify wicked men and things, and condemn piety, or righteous persons.
To them — That take away the difference between good and evil; that justify wicked men and things, and condemn piety, or righteous persons.
WO UNTO THEM THAT CALL EVIL GOOD ... - This is the fourth class of sins denounced. The sin which is reprobated here is that of “perverting and confounding” things, especially the distinctions of moral...
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...
CALL. are calling. EVIL GOOD. Note the _Introversion_ in each of the three clauses of this verse. PUT. give out....
DISCOURSE: 865 THE SINFULNESS OF CONFOUNDING GOOD AND EVIL Isaiah 5:20. _Wo unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for swee...
WOE UNTO THEM THAT CALL EVIL GOOD, &C.— The fourth crime alleged is, the subversion of all the principles of truth, and of equity in judgment. A most corrupt condition of a church and state is here de...
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...
Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter! WOE UNTO THEM THAT CALL EVIL GOOD, AND GOOD E...
1-24. Judah, God's unfruitful vineyard, and the judgment upon it....
The perverting of all moral distinctions....
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...
WOE UNTO THEM THAT CALL EVIL GOOD. — The moral state described was the natural outcome of the sins condemned in the preceding verses. So Thucydides (iii. 82-84) describes the effects of the spirit of...
הֹ֣וי הָ אֹמְרִ֥ים לָ † רַ֛ע טֹ֖וב...
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...
Woe to them that call evil good, (a) and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter! (a) Who are not ashamed of sin, nor care for...
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...
20._Wo to them that call evil good. _Though some limit this statement to judges, yet if it be carefully examined, we shall easily learn from the whole context that it is general; for, having a little...
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...
WOE UNTO THEM THAT CALL EVIL GOOD, AND GOOD EVIL,.... That call evil actions good, and good actions evil; that excuse the one, and reproach the other; or that call evil men good, and good men evil; to...
Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter! Ver. 20. _Woe unto them that call evil good, &c...
_Wo unto them that call evil good, and good evil_ That endeavour to confound both the names and the natures of virtue and vice, of piety and impiety; commend and applaud what is evil, and disparage an...
Woe unto them that call evil good and good evil, thus reversing all principles of true morality; THAT PUT DARKNESS FOR LIGHT AND LIGHT FOR DARKNESS, particularly in palliating the wickedness of sin, i...
A SIXFOLD WOE UPON THE JEWISH TRANSGRESSORS...
THAT CALL EVIL GOOD: _ Heb._ that say concerning evil, It is good, etc....
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...
THAT CALL EVIL GOOD, AND GOOD EVIL; that take away the difference between good and evil; that justify and approve wicked men and things, and condemn piety, or virtue; or righteous persons. Compare PRO...
Isaiah 5:20 Woe H1945 call H559 (H8802) evil H7451 good H2896 good H2896 evil H7451 put H7760 ...
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 5:20 I. The sin against which I would warn you is the sin of disregarding, and even of in the least degree underrating, the eternal distinctions of right and wrong; it is, in one word, the sin...
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
_Woe unto them that call evil good and good evil_ WOE UNTO THEM THAT CALL EVIL GOOD AND GOOD EVIL There is a customary mode of talking, in which familiar formulas of praise and censure, as to moral...
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...
ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 5:18 Isaiah issues four laments (WOE) over God’s people. ⇐ ⇔
THE INFLUENCE OF LANGUAGE ON CHARACTER Isaiah 5:20. _Woe to them, that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bit...
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 Peter 2:1; 2 Peter 2:18; 2 Peter 2:19; 2 Timothy 3:1; Luke 11:35;...