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Kretzmann's Popular Commentary

Isaiah 28:29

This also cometh forth from the Lord of hosts, which is wonderful In counsel and excellent in working, that is, this parable teaches the wisdom of God in the higher plane, the manner in which He deals with His harvest on earth. The Lord punishes, but only in order to bless; He threshes, but not with crushing blows, not with the purpose of destroying. His object in sending tribulation is to separate the moral chaff from the wheat and to obtain the fullness of the harvest.

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See also Isaiah 28:29 in other biblical comments:

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    THIS ALSO COMETH ... - That is, these various devices for threshing his grain comes from the Lord no less than the skill with which he tills his land. (see Isaiah 28:26). AND EXCELLENT IN WORKING - Or...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    3. THE SIX WOES OF THE PROPHET, JUDGMENT RUINS AND RESTORATION GLORIES TO COME (28-35) CHAPTER 28 The First Woe and the Message of Assurance 1. _Ephraim addressed (Isaiah 28:1)_ 2. _Jerusalem equall...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    THE HUSBANDMAN ADAPTS HIS METHODS TO THE CIRCUMSTANCES OF EACH CASE. This parable may perhaps not have been spoken to the same audience as Isaiah 28:7, but there is no valid reason for denying it to I...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    THIS: i.e. this same design in His treatment of His people. His purpose is the same as that of the husbandman. Compare Amos 9:9. EXCELLENT. lofty. WORKING. wisdom. The sort of wisdom which carries t...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    A parable derived from husbandry. The motive of its insertion in this place was probably the different treatment meted out to Samaria and to Jerusalem. The precise point of the analogy is somewhat unc...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    To Isaiah there is something very impressive in the peasant's subtle yet unpretentious knowledge of his craft; he is like a part of nature, and his wisdom seems a direct emanation from the infinite Wi...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Threshing is not bruising. Three methods of threshing are alluded to. (_a_) Beating with a rod or flail (cf. Judges 6:11; Ruth 2:17). (_b_) Treading with the feet of cattle (Deuteronomy 25:4;...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    GIVE YE EAR, &C.— We have here the fourth member of this section, in which this severe judgment of God denounced in the preceding verses, is defended by a parable taken from agriculture, wherein the p...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    2. STABILITY TEXT: Isaiah 28:14-29 14 Wherefore hear the word of Jehovah, ye scoffers, that rule this people that is in Jerusalem: 15 Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    This also cometh forth from the LORD of hosts, which is wonderful in counsel, and excellent in working. THIS ALSO ... The skill wherewith the farmer duly adjusts his modes of threshing is given by...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    This chapter must be assigned (Isaiah 28:1) to a date prior to the capture of Samaria by the Assyrians (722 b.c.) and fall of the northern kingdom. 1-6. Samaria's luxury and self-indulgence pave the...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    WORKING] RV 'wisdom.' In Isaiah 28:24 the skill of the agriculturalist in varying his operations is treated as a reflexion and parable of the divine wisdom. Delicate grains are threshed but not crushe...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    ISAIAH: GOD CONTROLS THE NATIONS GOD CONTROLS THE FUTURE ISAIAH CHAPTER S 21 TO 30 _NORMAN HILLYER_ CHAPTER 28 The next section of the Book of Isaiah is from Chapter 28 to Chapter 33. These Cha...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    It is God who teaches the farmer how to obtain each crop. So, how much more capable is God to achieve his own purposes in the lives of his people! ASSYRIAN ~ A person from the country called Assyria...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    THIS ALSO COMETH FORTH FROM THE LORD OF HOSTS. — The force of the climax lies in the use of the highest of the Divine names instead of “God” (Elohim), as in Isaiah 28:26. The wisdom of the husband man...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    גַּם ־זֹ֕את מֵ עִ֛ם יְהוָ֥ה צְבָאֹ֖ות יָצָ֑אָ

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    BOOK 3 PROPHECIES FROM THE ACCESSION OF HEZEKIAH TO THE DEATH OF SARGON 727-705 B.C. THE prophecies with which we have been engaged (Chapter s 2-10:4) fall either before or during the great Assyrian...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    TRUTH THE ONLY REFUGE Isaiah 28:14-29 In the beginning of Hezekiah's reign the Jewish leaders had made an alliance with Assyria, on whom they relied to protect them against any and all foes. But the...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    Here begins the third and last circle of the first division of the book. It consists of a series of prophecies concerning the chosen people and the world. In this chapter we have a graphic revelation...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _This also, &c. Such also is the proceeding of the Lord with his land, and the diverse seeds he sows therein. (Challoner)_...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    The chapter ends very graciously, in showing the Church, under the similitude of the husbandman, how the Lord takes care of his household. And as Jesus hath sweetly set forth the same blessed truths,...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    REFLECTIONS READER! what a wonderful history doth the Church of God hold forth in all ages! Never was there a people so favoured as Israel! Never surely a nation so degenerate. In whatever period we l...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    29._This also hath proceeded from Jehovah of hosts. _This passage is explained by some, as if The Prophet had said that the science of agriculture proceeded from the Lord; but I consider it to be the...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    Chapter 28 sets before us the first elements of these final scenes in the history of this wonderful people. The scourge comes from the north. Ephraim is invaded as by an overflowing torrent, by a temp...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    THIS ALSO COMETH FROM THE LORD OF HOSTS,.... All this wisdom the husbandman has, in manuring his ground, in sowing it with proper seed, and in threshing it out in a manner suitable to it. Agriculture...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    This also cometh forth from the LORD of hosts, [which] is wonderful in counsel, [and] excellent in working. Ver. 29. _This also cometh forth from the Lord._] As doth likewise πανα δοσις αγαθη, και πα...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    “Four methods of thrashing are here mentioned, by different instruments: the _flail_, the _drag_, the _wain_, and the _treading of cattle._ The _staff_, or _flail_, was used for the grain that was too...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    23-29 The husbandman applies to his calling with pains and prudence, in all the works of it according to their nature. Thus the Lord, who has given men this wisdom, is wonderful in counsel, and excel...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    THIS ALSO; this part of the husbandman's discretion, expressed ISAIAH 28:27,28, as well as that expressed ISAIAH 28:24,25. WHICH IS WONDERFUL IN COUNSEL, AND EXCELLENT IN WORKING: these words contain...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Isaiah 28:29 comes H3318 (H8804) LORD H3068 hosts H6635 wonderful H6381 (H8689) counsel H6098 excellent H1431 ...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    THE PARABLE OF THE FARMER AND HIS CROPS (ISAIAH 28:23). The point behind this parable is that the wise farmer thinks carefully about what he is doing and does not get bogged down in one activity. He l...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Woe of Ephriam due to drunkenness. Prediction of Assyrian captivity of Ephriam. Ephriam's fate a warning to Judah. CHARACTERS: God. CONCLUSION: The glorious beauty and the plenty of the lan...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Isaiah 28:1. _The crown of pride._ Sebaste, the ancient Samaria, is situated on a long mount of an oval figure, having first a fruitful valley, and then a circle of hills running round about it. _Maun...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _The Lord of hosts, which is wonderful in counsel_ GOD’S PRESIDENCY OVER ALL THINGS Let us consider this point as related to-- I. THE BIBLE AND ITS CONTENTS. This Book, to the secular world, is a pe...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _For his God doth instruct him_ CHASTISING WITH JUDGMENT More literally and with better significance, “And he chastiseth it with judgment; his God doth instruct him. ” This judgment is shown in two...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _The ploughman_ THE PARABLE OF THE PLOUGHMAN AND THE THRESHER 1. The general drift of the parable is obvious. The husbandman does not forever vex and wound the tender bosom of the earth with the kee...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 28:23 God’s dealings with his people, though “strange” (v. Isaiah 28:21), are wise. He can be trusted in everything....

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    A FEAST FOR FAITH Isaiah 28:29. _This also cometh forth from the Lord of Hosts, which is wonderful in counsel, and excellent in working_. The sentiment of the text is that _the art, and science, and...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    SECTION VII. RENEWED DENUNCIATIONS OF ISRAEL AND JUDAH (CH. 28-31.) EXPOSITION ISAIAH 28:1 A WARNING TO SAMARIA. The prophet has now east his eagle glance

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Chapter 28. Now the prophet turns to the local present issues. He is now... he's gone off down the road to the end of things. Now he comes back and he begins to speak of the Northern Kingdom, the majo...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Daniel 4:2; Daniel 4:3; Isaiah 28:21; Isaiah 28:22; Isaiah 9:6;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    This also — This part of the husbandman's discretion. These words contain the application of the similitude. The husbandman manages his affairs with common discretion; but God governs the world, and h...

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