Geneva Study Bible Commentary
Isaiah 5:18
Woe to them that draw iniquity with (y) cords of vanity, and sin as it were with a cart rope:
(y) Who use all allurements, opportunities and excuses to harden their conscience in sin.
Woe to them that draw iniquity with (y) cords of vanity, and sin as it were with a cart rope:
(y) Who use all allurements, opportunities and excuses to harden their conscience in sin.
Verse Isaiah 5:18. _WITH A CART-ROPE_ - "As a long cable"] The _Septuagint,_ _Aquila, Sym_., and _Theod_., for בחבלי _bechabley_, read כחבלי _kechahley_, ως σχοινιω, or σχοινιοις; and the _Septuagint...
WO UNTO THEM ... - This is a new denunciation. It introduces another form of sin, and threatens its appropriate punishment. THAT DRAW INIQUITY WITH CORDS OF VANITY - The general idea in this verse and...
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...
INIQUITY. Hebrew. _'avah._ App-44. CORDS, &C. Which draw on sin by the _load._ CART ROPE. Implies sin by the cart-load....
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...
Woe unto them that draw iniquity with cords of vanity, and sin as it were with a cart rope: WOE UNTO THEM THAT DRAW INIQUITY - guilt, incurring punishment. The third woe-against obstinate persever...
1-24. Judah, God's unfruitful vineyard, and the judgment upon it....
The people have chained themselves to sin like beasts of burden....
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...
People continue to behave wickedly until their own evil habits control them. Then they become like prisoners. They cannot even change their attitudes in order to do the right things....
THAT DRAW INIQUITY WITH CORDS OF VANITY. — The phrase is boldly figurative. Evil-doers are thought of as harnessing themselves as to the chariot of sin. The “cords of vanity” — i.e., of _emptiness_ or...
הֹ֛וי מֹשְׁכֵ֥י הֶֽ עָוֹ֖ן בְּ חַבְלֵ֣י 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...
_Cart. Fatiguing themselves with iniquity, (Wisdom v. 7.; Calmet) and delaying your conversion. (St. Isidore) (Menochius)_...
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...
18._Wo unto them that draw iniquity with cords of vanity! _After having inserted a short consolation for the purpose of allaying the bitterness of punishments as regards the godly, he returns to threa...
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 DRAW INIQUITY WITH CORDS OF VANITY,.... The prophet returns to the wicked again, and goes on with the account of their sin and punishment; and here describes such, not that are draw...
Woe unto them that draw iniquity with cords of vanity, and sin as it were with a cart rope: Ver. 18. _Woe unto them that draw iniquity._] That draw sin to them, as a beast draweth a cart after it. He...
_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...
A SIXFOLD WOE UPON THE JEWISH TRANSGRESSORS...
Woe unto them that draw iniquity with cords of vanity, their first excuses to themselves being like hair-strings, but their increasing callousness finally causing them boldly to draw their guilt to th...
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 DRAW INIQUITY; that are not only drawn to sin by the allurements of the world, or by the persuasions of wicked men, being surprised and overtaken by sin, as sometimes good men are, GALATIANS 6:1,...
Isaiah 5:18 Woe H1945 draw H4900 (H8802) iniquity H5771 cords H2256 vanity H7723 sin H2403 cart H5699 rope...
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. ⇐ ⇔
CORDS OF VANITY Isaiah 5:18. _Woe unto them that draw iniquity with cords of vanity, and sin as it were with a cart rope_. “ ‘Sin’ in the last clause is parallel with iniquity in the first—a noun an...
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 Samuel 16:20; Acts 26:9; Ezekiel 13:10; Ezekiel 13:11; Ezekiel
That draw — That are not only drawn to sin by the allurements of the world; but are active and illustrious in drawing sin to themselves. Cords — Or, with cords of lying, as the last word frequently si...