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James Gray's Concise Bible Commentary - Isaiah 5:1-30

GENERAL DISCOURSES The first five chapters of Isaiah form a natural division, to which, for want of a better title, we give that of General Discourses, or messages. The first is limited to chapter 1, the second covers chapters 2-4, and the third chapter 5. But first notice the introduction, Isaiah 1:1 . By what word is the whole book described? What genealogy of the prophet is given? To which kingdom was he commissioned, Israel or Judah? In whose reigns did he prophesy? Examine 2 Kings,... read more

Joseph Parker

The People's Bible by Joseph Parker - Isaiah 5:8-22

Sin and Judgment Isa 5:8-22 We find similar maledictions pronounced by Jesus Christ in the sixth chapter of Luke. In the earlier prophecies there is no precedent or parallel to these pronouncements of woe. Where heaven is so angry there must be some reason for the anger; it is our business to endeavour to discover that reason, and inquire into our own relation towards it. "Woe unto them that join house to house, that lay field to field, till there be no place, that they may be placed alone... read more

Robert Hawker

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary - Isaiah 5:18-25

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 for the very purpose? Is there not one and the same family feature? Alas how fallen is our nature: how general, yea, universal, the taint of evil? Is it to be wondered at, that sorrows abound, where sin so much abounds? Let the Reader, if by grace happily preserved from such daring impiety, not... read more

George Haydock

George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary - Isaiah 5:22

Drink. Hebrew, "mix shecar." People generally mixed wine and water. They also strove who could drink most, and the Greeks had a feast for this purpose, (Calmet) which they styled Choas, for the measure which was to be swallowed down. (Aristophanes, Acharn. act. iv. 4. and 5. ultra) --- Cyrus the younger boasted to the Greek ambassadors, that "he could drink and bear more wine than his brother." (Plut.[Plutarch?] in Artax.) read more

George Haydock

George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary - Isaiah 5:23

Justice. Declaring the righteous guilty, ver. 20. (Haydock) read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 5:8-23

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 when they have enough. Covetousness is idolatry; and while many envy the prosperous, wretched man, the Lord denounces awful woes upon him. How applicable to many among us! God has many ways to empty the most populous cities. Those who set their hearts upon the world, will justly be disappointed. Here... read more

Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann - Isaiah 5:8-30

A Sixfold Woe upon the Jewish Transgressors v. 8. Woe unto them that join house to house, in a greed for wealth which is never satisfied, that lay field to field, their covetousness causing them to add one piece of property to another, till there be no place, no room for any one else, that they, literally, "ye," for the prophet here turns directly to the Jews, may be placed alone in the midst of the earth, thus violating the statutes both concerning the inheritance of real estate and the... read more

Johann Peter Lange

Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures: Critical, Doctrinal and Homiletical - Isaiah 5:1-30

2. The bad fruits of the present in the light of the glorious divine fruit of the last time. Isaiah 5:1-30a. THE BAD FRUITS OF THE PRESENT SHOWN IN THE PARABLE OF THE VINEYARDIsaiah 5:1-71 Now will I sing 1to my well-belovedA song of my beloved touching his vineyard.My well beloved hath a vineyardIn 2 3a very fruitful hill:2 And he 4 5fenced it, and gathered out the stones thereof,And planted it with the choicest vine,And built a tower in the midst of it,And also 6made a winepress... read more

Alexander MacLaren

Alexander MacLaren's Expositions of Holy Scripture - Isaiah 5:8-30

Isaiah A PROPHET’S WOES Isa_5:8 - Isa_5:30 . Drunkenness is, in this text, one of a ring of plague-spots on the body politic of Judah. The prophet six times proclaims ‘woe’ as the inevitable end of these; such ‘sickness’ is ‘unto death’ unless repentance and another course of conduct bring healing. But drunkenness appears twice in this grim catalogue, and the longest paragraph of denunciation Isa_5:11 - Isa_5:17 is devoted to it. Its connection with the other vices attacked is loose, but it... read more

Frederick Brotherton Meyer

F.B. Meyer's 'Through the Bible' Commentary - Isaiah 5:18-30

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 5:22 ; injustice in the courts, Isaiah 5:23-24 . What a terrible description is that given in Isaiah 5:18 of the inevitable progress of sin! The bacchanalian procession which is seen, in Isaiah 5:14 , descending with music and flowers into the open gates of Hades is described in Isaiah 5:18 as... read more