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Isaiah 5:19
Such people decide that God has no place in their lives.
Verse 20
Their behaviour becomes the exact opposite of God’s standards for his people.
Such people decide that God has no place in their lives.
Verse 20
Their behaviour becomes the exact opposite of God’s standards for his people.
Verse Isaiah 5:19. _LET THE COUNSEL OF THE HOLY ONE_] _Tryphiodorus_ has an expression something like this: - ______ επει Διος ηλυθε βουλη TRYPH. _Il Excid_. 239. Because the counsel of Jupiter wa...
THAT SAY ... - They add one sin to another for “the purpose of defying” God, and provoking him to anger. They pretend that he will not punish sin; and hence, they plunge deeply into it, and defy him t...
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...
THAT SAY, &C. Compare Jeremiah 17:15. THE HOLY ONE OF ISRAEL. See notes on Isaiah 1:4 and Psalms 71:22....
WOE UNTO THEM THAT DRAW INIQUITY, &C.— The third crime is, the pretence of false and wicked reasonings, by which the profane bring their minds to perpetrate the most abominable crimes against the call...
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...
That say, Let him make speed, and hasten his work, that we may see it: and let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel draw nigh and come, that we may know it! THAT SAY, LET HIM MAKE SPEED, (AND) HAS...
1-24. Judah, God's unfruitful vineyard, and the judgment upon it....
They scoff at the declared judgments of God....
THAT SAY, LET HIM MAKE SPEED. — We have here, as in Isaiah 28:10, and Jeremiah 17:15, the very words of the wealthy scoffers of Judah. Such taunts are not peculiar to any age or country. We find them...
הָ אֹמְרִ֗ים יְמַהֵ֧ר ׀ יָחִ֛ישָׁה מַעֲשֵׂ֖הוּ לְמַ֣עַן...
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...
That say, (z) Let him make speed, [and] hasten his work, that we may see [it]: and let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel draw near and come, that we may know [it]! (z) He shows what are the words...
_It. The Jews were often guilty of the like insolence, Jeremias xvii. 15._...
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...
19._Who say, Let him make speed. _He specifies one class of sins, by means of which he shows that they _draw sins as by ropes_. When men not only lay aside all thought of the Divine judgment, but desp...
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...
THAT SAY, LET HIM MAKE SPEED, [AND] HASTEN HIS WORK,.... Either the punishment of their sins, threatened by the prophets; which, because not speedily and immediately executed, therefore they did not b...
_That say, Let him make speed, [and] hasten his work, that we may see [it]: and let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel draw nigh and come, that we may know [it]!_ Ver. 19. _That say, Let him make...
_Wo unto them that draw iniquity_ That are not only drawn to sin by the allurements of the world, or by the persuasions of wicked men, but are active and industrious in drawing sin to themselves, or t...
that say, Let Him make speed and hasten His work that we may see it, that is, the threatened retribution, AND LET THE COUNSEL OF THE HOLY ONE OF ISRAEL DRAW NIGH AND COME THAT WE MAY KNOW IT! Their bl...
A SIXFOLD WOE UPON THE JEWISH TRANSGRESSORS...
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...
LET HIM, to wit, God, in whose name thou and other prophets are always reproving and threatening us. HASTEN HIS WORK, THAT WE MAY SEE IT; he only thinks to affright us with bugbears; but he either can...
Isaiah 5:19 say H559 (H8802) speed H4116 (H8762) hasten H2363 (H8686) work H4639 see H7200 ...
THE THIRD WOE (ISAIAH 5:18). Isaiah 5:18 ‘Woe to those who draw iniquity with cords of vanity, And sin as it were with a cart rope, Who say, “Let him hurry up, Let him hasten his work, that we ma...
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
_Woe unto them that draw iniquity with cords of vanity._ FRIVOLITY AND PROFANITY Frivolity, he says, is the herald and handmaid of guilt. The cords are cords of vanity bound about us in mere thoughtl...
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. ⇐ ⇔
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...
SCEPTICISM Isaiah 5:19. _That say, Let Him make speed and hasten His work, that we may see it: and let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel draw nigh and come, that we may know it_. Scepticism, I....
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 3:3; 2 Peter 3:4; Amos 5:18; Amos 5:19; Ezekiel 12:22;...
Let him — God, in whose name thou and other prophets are always threatening us. This was the plain language of their actions; they lived as if they were of this opinion. The Holy One — They scornfully...