Isaiah 5:16 BSB

F.B. Meyer's 'Through the Bible' Commentary - Isaiah 5:1-17

a Disappointing Harvest Isaiah 5:1-17 In a picture of great beauty, Isaiah describes a vineyard situated on one of the sunny heights visible from Jerusalem. Every care which an experienced vine-dresser could devise had been expended on it, but in vain. The vine-dresser himself is introduced, demanding if more could have been done. When God selects a nation, a church, or an individual for high and holy work in the world and expends care and pains on the preparation of the instrument, and His... read more

G. Campbell Morgan

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 5:1-30

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 familiar illustration of the rights of the proprietor in his vineyard, the prophet appeals to the listening people. The nature of the parable is such as to compel their assent to the rightness of the judgment indicated. The prophet immediately makes a blunt application of his song as he declares that... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 5:8-30

The Six Woes of God (Isaiah 5:8-30 ). 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 warning that God sees the ways of all men, whether in business, in pleasure-seeking, in their thinking or in their attitudes, and will surely call them all to account. Woes in Scripture can be divided into two kinds, those which express God’s determination to act in judgment, and those which... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 5:11-17

The Second Woe (Isaiah 5:11-17 ). Isaiah 5:11-12 ‘Woe to those who rise up early in the morning, That they may follow strong drink, Who tarry late into the night, Until wine inflames them. And the harp, and the lute, the tabret and the pipe, And wine are in their feasts. But they do not regard the work of Yahweh, Nor have they considered the operation of His hands.’ The first woe was against greed and avarice, the second is against over excess in pleasure seeking. It was one of the dangers,... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 5:8-24

Isaiah 5:8-Jeremiah : . 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 different periods of Isaiah’ s ministry is not so clear; no confidence can be felt in the attempts to date them. The text has not been very well preserved. Isaiah 5:8-2 Samuel : . Woe to the grasping land-holders who drive the old possessors from their ancestral homesteads... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Isaiah 5:16

Shall be exalted in judgment, by the execution of this just judgment upon his incorrigible enemies. Shall be sanctified, shall appear to be a holy God, in righteousness; by his righteous judgments. read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Isaiah 5:8-23

WILD GRAPESIsaiah 5:8-23. 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 this fact be overlooked. In Isaiah 5:1-7, we have the astonishing declaration that in “the vineyard of the Lord of hosts” He has discovered, not the excellent fruit He had a right to expect, but “wild grapes.” In Isaiah 5:8-23; some of these “wild grapes” are specified and denounced. Surveying... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Isaiah 5:11-17

NATIONAL UNGODLINESSIsaiah 5:11-17. Woe unto them that rise up early in the morning, that they may follow strong drink, &c.National ungodliness. I. Its phases, dissipation, drunkenness, forgetfulness of God. II. Its punishment, captivity, famine, pestilence, humiliation. III. The certainty of its visitation, God must be vindicated, His people must be delivered [622] Lyth, D.D.[622] The individual culprit may sometimesUnpunished to his after-reckoning go:Not thus collective man; for public... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Isaiah 5:1-30

Chapter 5Now 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 his vineyard. My well-beloved hath a vineyard in a very fruitful hill: And he fenced it, and gathered out the stones thereof ( Isaiah 5:1-2 ),And you that have been over know what a job it is to gather the stones out of the vineyard and you see how that they gathered the stones and make... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Isaiah 5:1-30

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 80:14-15. Ezekiel 17:6. Hosea 10:1. Matthew 20:1-16. They were a people whom he cultivated, and with whom he delighted as a garden. To understand this vineyard of a fruitful horn is diverting enough; for a horn, like a mountain, is elevated. So Dr. Lowth, for two pages; and so Erasmus makes us merry in his battle of grammarians. Isaiah 5:2 . The... read more