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Verse Isaiah 5:26. _HE WILL - HISS_ - "He will hist"] "The metaphor
is taken from the practice of those that keep bees, who draw them out
of their hives into the fields, and lead them back again,
συρ...
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AND HE WILL LIFT UP AN ENSIGN ... - The idea here is, that the nations
of the earth are under his control, and that he can call whom he
pleases to execute his purposes. This power over the nations he...
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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)_...
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THE LAST STROKE. It is generally agreed that this belongs to Isaiah
9:8 to Isaiah 10:4, each strophe of which closes with the same refrain
as Isaiah 5:25. Unhappily, except for this closing verse, the...
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HISS UNTO. hiss for (as men call bees).
THEY SHALL COME. Note the Figure of speech _Hypotyposis_ in Isaiah
5:26....
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_And he will lift up an ensign_ i.e. a signal, set up on a hill
(Isaiah 13:2; Isaiah 18:3; Isaiah 30:17; cf. Isaiah 11:10;...
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A powerful description of the advance of the invaders, who however
remain unnamed....
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AND HE WILL LIFT UP AN ENSIGN— That decree of the divine severity,
which had been spoken of in general in Isaiah 5:24 is here explained:
particularly God is shewn to be the supreme general or leader o...
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THE WRATH OF JUDGMENT
TEXT: Isaiah 5:24-30
24 Therefore as the tongue of fire devoureth the stubble, and as the
dry grass sinketh down in the flame, so their root shall be as
rottenness, and their b...
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And he will lift up an ensign to the nations from far, and will hiss
unto them from the end of the earth: and, behold, they shall come with
speed swiftly:
HE WILL LIFT UP AN ENSIGN TO THE NATIONS F...
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LIFT UP AN ENSIGN] i.e. as a signal to muster them: cp. Isaiah 11:10;
Isaiah 18:3; Isaiah 49:22; Isaiah 62:10. NATIONS] i.e. those under the
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1-24. Judah, God's unfruitful vineyard, and the judgment upon it....
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AND HE WILL LIFT UP AN ENSIGN. — The banner on the summit of a hill
indicated the meeting-place of a great army. In this case the armies
are thought of as doing the work of Jehovah Sabaoth, and theref...
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וְ נָֽשָׂא ־נֵ֤ס לַ † גֹּויִם֙ מֵ...
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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...
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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:...
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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...
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And he will lift up an ensign (f) to the nations from afar, and will
hiss to them from the end of the earth: and, behold, they shall come
with speed swiftly:
(f) He will make the Babylonians come aga...
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_Off. Like a king, leading all his subjects to battle. (Calmet) ---
Whistle. He alludes to the custom of leading forth bees by music,
chap. vii. 18. (St. Cyprian) --- Earth. The Chaldeans, (chap. xli....
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Methinks I would read these verses with a twofold aspect. God had said
by the prophet, in a preceding chapter; Say ye to the righteous, that
it shall be well with him; while to the wicked, it shall be...
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26._And he will lift up an ensign to the nations. _In this and the
following verses he describes the nature of the punishment which the
Lord would inflict on his people; namely, that they were about t...
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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...
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AND HE WILL LIFT UP AN ENSIGN TO THE NATIONS FROM FAR,.... Not to the
Chaldeans or Babylonians, for they were not nations, but one nation,
and were a people near; but to the Romans, who consisted of m...
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And he will lift up an ensign to the nations from far, and will hiss
unto them from the end of the earth: and, behold, they shall come with
speed swiftly:
Ver. 26. _And he will lift up an ensign._] T...
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_And he will lift up an ensign to the nations_ To call them together
for his service. Here that decree of the divine severity, which had
been spoken of in general terms in Isaiah 5:24, is explained. G...
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A SIXFOLD WOE UPON THE JEWISH TRANSGRESSORS...
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And He, in delivering the last great blow, WILL LIFT UP AN ENSIGN TO
THE NATIONS FROM FAR, as a signal and invitation for them to attack
Israel, AND WILL HISS UNTO THEM FROM THE END OF THE EARTH, the...
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24-30 Let not any expect to live easily who live wickedly. Sin
weakens the strength, the root of a people; it defaces the beauty, the
blossoms of a people. When God's word is despised, and his law ca...
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HE WILL LIFT UP AN ENSIGN, to call them together for his service, as
generals used to do for the raising of armies, to THE NATIONS FROM
FAR; either,
1. To the Assyrians, of whom he speaks more particu...
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Isaiah 5:26 up H5375 (H8804) banner H5251 nations H1471 afar H7350
whistle H8319 (H8804) end H7097 earth...
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GOD SUMMONS THE INSTRUMENTS OF HIS WRATH (ISAIAH 5:26).
Isaiah 5:26
‘And he will lift up an ensign to the nations from far,
And will whistle for them from the end of the earth,
And behold they wil...
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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...
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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...
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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
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_Therefore as the fire devoureth the stubble_
SIN BRINGS JUDGMENT IN ITS TRAIN
Let not those expect to live easily that live thus wickedly, for the
righteous God wilt take vengeance.
Observe--
I. H...
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_Therefore is the anger of the Lord kindled against His people_
THE PROPHECY EXPLAINED
Jehovah is about to bring foreign armies as the instruments of His
judgment; the vision of the worst of human c...
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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...
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ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 5:26 NATIONS, including Assyria, are summoned
by the sovereign God with a mere whistle.
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THE DOOM OF IMPENITENT ISRAEL
Isaiah 5:24. _Therefore as the fire devoureth, &c._
In this threatening, fulfilled in the utter destruction of Israel by
Assyria, we find illustrations of the following...
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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...
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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...
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Deuteronomy 28:49; Habakkuk 1:8; Isaiah 11:12; Isaiah 18:3; Isaiah
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An ensign — To call them together for his service. From far — To
the Chaldeans; for even Babylon is called a far country, Isaiah 39:3.
And he saith nations, because the Chaldean army was made up of se...