Geneva Study Bible Commentary
Isaiah 5:21
Woe to [them that are] (b) wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight!
(b) Who contemn all doctrine and admonition.
Woe to [them that are] (b) wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight!
(b) Who contemn all doctrine and admonition.
WO UNTO THEM THAT ARE WISE ... - This is the fifth crime specified. It refers to those who are inflated with a false opinion of their own knowledge, and who are, therefore, self-confident and vain. Th...
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...
SIGHT. Hebrew "face", put by Figure of speech _Metonymy_ (of Subject), App-6, for themselves, or their own view of matters....
WOE UNTO THEM THAT ARE WISE IN THEIR OWN EYES, &C.— The fifth crime imputed to the Jews is, an arrogant presumption of the stability of their state, founded in carnal reason, with a contempt of the di...
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 are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight! WOE UNTO (THEM THAT ARE) WISE IN THEIR OWN EYES, AND PRUDENT IN THEIR OWN SIGHT. Fifth woe against those who were so...
5:21 esteem! (a-16) Lit 'before their faces.'...
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...
WOE UNTO THEM THAT ARE WISE IN THEIR OWN EYES. — Here again the prophet would seem to have definite individual counsellors in his mind. For such men the ideal of statesmanship was a series of shifts a...
הֹ֖וי חֲכָמִ֣ים בְּ עֵֽינֵיהֶ֑ם וְ נֶ֥גֶד פְּ
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...
_Conceits. Blind guides, Matthew xv. 14._...
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...
21._Wo to them that are wise in their own eyes! _Here he proceeds to rebuke those on whom no instruction can produce a good effect, and who do not allow any wise counsels or godly warnings to gain adm...
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 [THERM THAT ARE] WISE IN THEIR OWN EYES,.... And yet betray such stupidity and sottishness, as to call things by their wrong names; and make such a perverse judgment of them, as before descri...
Woe unto [them that are] wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight! Ver. 21. _Woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes._] Wiser than David - as the proud prince of Tyre thought hims...
_Wo unto them that are wise in their own eyes_ Who, being puffed up with a high opinion of their own wisdom, despise the counsels and instructions of Jehovah by his prophets, and prefer their own vain...
A SIXFOLD WOE UPON THE JEWISH TRANSGRESSORS...
Woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes, arrogant in their self-conceit, an offense which is rebuked also by St. Paul, Romans 12:16, AND PRUDENT IN THEIR OWN SIGHT, such people being beyond the...
IN THEIR OWN SIGHT: before their face...
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 being puffed up with an opinion of their own wisdom, despise the counsels and instructions of God by his prophets, and prefer their own vain fancies before the judgment of the all-wise God, as ap...
Isaiah 5:21 Woe H1945 wise H2450 eyes H5869 prudent H995 (H8737) sight H6440 wise - Job 11:12;...
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...
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 are wise in their own eyes_ A FALSE ESTIMATE OF HUMAN WISDOM The sin reproved (as Calvin well observes) is not mere frivolous self-conceit, but that delusive estimate of human wi...
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. ⇐ ⇔
SELF-CONCEIT Isaiah 5:21. _Woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight_. Self-conceit. I. Its signs: dogmatism; contempt of others; scepticism. II. ITS CAUSES: ig...
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...
1 Corinthians 3:18; Job 11:12; John 9:41; Proverbs 26:12; Prov