Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Isaiah 5:30
Sorrow — Darkness; that is, sorrow; the latter word explains the former. The heavens — When they look up to the heavens, as men in distress usually do, they see no light there.
Sorrow — Darkness; that is, sorrow; the latter word explains the former. The heavens — When they look up to the heavens, as men in distress usually do, they see no light there.
Verse Isaiah 5:30. _IF ONE LOOK UNTO THE LAND, C._ - "And these shall look to the heaven upward, and down to the earth"] ונבט לארץ _venibbat_ _laarets_. Και εμβλεψονται εις την γην. So the _Septuagin...
THEY SHALL ROAR AGAINST THEM - The army that shall come up shall roar against the Jews. The image of “the roaring of the sea” indicates the great number that would come; that of the roaring of the “li...
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...
HEAVENS. skies....
Apparently an image of the land in the throes of the invasion. The verse, which presents many difficulties, may read somewhat as follows: AND HE SHALL GROWL OVER HIM IN THAT DAY LIKE THE GROWLING OF T...
AND IF ONE LOOK UNTO THE LAND— Isaiah here closes this prophesy with a strong and eloquent description of the consequences of this calamity; setting forth, in the most emphatical terms, the utter conf...
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...
And in that day they shall roar against them like the roaring of the sea: and if one look unto the land, behold darkness and sorrow, and the light is darkened in the heavens thereof. SORROW, AND T...
5:30 thereof. (d-35) Others, 'with its clouds.'...
THEY SHALL ROAR AGAINST THEM] i.e. the enemies against God's people. ISAIAH'S PREACHING EARLY IN THE REIGN OF AHAZ Isaiah 2-4 are closely connected, and Isaiah 5 is generally thought to belong to the...
1-24. Judah, God's unfruitful vineyard, and the judgment upon it....
In all directions, people see nothing but trouble. Their future is without hope. VINEYARD ~ field where vines grow. VINE ~ plant that produces grapes. GRAPES ~ small sweet fruit of vines; the juice m...
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...
THEY SHALL ROAR AGAINST THEM. — Literally, _there is a roaring over him._ The verb is the same as in the previous verse, and points therefore to the shout and tramp of the armies. It suggests the thou...
וְ יִנְהֹ֥ם עָלָ֛יו בַּ † יֹּ֥ום הַ...
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...
And in that day they shall roar against them like the roaring of the sea: and if (k) [one] looketh to the land, behold darkness [and] sorrow, and the light is darkened in its (l) heavens. (k) The Jew...
_Mist. Denoting calamity. Hebrew, "ruin." Septuagint, "indigence." (Calmet)_...
REFLECTIONS READER, let us mark from the perusal of this chapter, the two great leading points contained in it; the grace, and mercy, and loving-kindness of the Lord; and the fallen, corrupt, and wre...
Methinks I would read these verses with a twofold aspect. God had said by the prophet, in a preceding chapter; Say ye to the righteous, that it shall be well with him; while to the wicked, it shall be...
30._He shall roar against him. _(91) The Prophet adds this, that the Jews may understand that the fierce attack of the Chaldeans is not accidental, but that they have been appointed by God and are gui...
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...
AND IN THAT DAY THEY SHALL ROAR AGAINST THEM LIKE THE ROARING OF THE SEA,.... That is, the Romans against the Jews; whose attacks upon them should be with so much fierceness and power, that it should...
And in that day they shall roar against them like the roaring of the sea: and if [one] look unto the land, behold darkness [and] sorrow, and the light is darkened in the heavens thereof. Ver. 30. _Li...
_And in that day_, &c. “Here Isaiah closes this prophecy, with a strong and eloquent description of the consequences of this calamity; setting forth, in the most emphatical terms, the utter confusion,...
And in that day they shall roar against them like the roaring of the sea, the surf breaking on the precipitous shore with a fearful thunder; AND IF ONE LOOK UNTO THE LAND, seeking a firm foothold, BEH...
A SIXFOLD WOE UPON THE JEWISH TRANSGRESSORS...
SORROW: Or, distress AND THE LIGHT IS DARKENED IN THE HEAVENS THEREOF: Or, when it is light it shall be dark in the destructions thereof...
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...
LIKE THE ROARING OF THE SEA; which is violent and frightful. DARKNESS AND SORROW; darkness, to wit, sorrow: the latter word explains the former, and the particle AND is put expositively, as it is freq...
Isaiah 5:30 day H3117 roar H5098 (H8799) roaring H5100 sea H3220 looks H5027 (H8765) land H776 darkness...
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...
GOD SUMMONS THE INSTRUMENTS OF HIS WRATH (ISAIAH 5:26). Isaiah 5:26 ‘And he will lift up an ensign to the nations from far, And will whistle for them from the end of the earth, And behold they wil...
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...
ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 5:27 Isaiah describes the approach of invading military forces. This is a far cry from the nations approaching Zion to learn the ways of God and cease from war (Isaiah 2:2)....
ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 5:30 DARKNESS AND DISTRESS... LIGHT IS DARKENED. Having rejected the light of the Lord that was offered to them (Isaiah 2:5), Judah and Jerusalem find that the
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...
Amos 8:9; Exodus 10:21; Ezekiel 32:7; Ezekiel 32:8; Isaiah 13:10;...