EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries
Isaiah 59:5-7
People’s evil behaviour is as dangerous as the bite of a poisonous snake. One bite can cause death.
People’s evil behaviour is as dangerous as the bite of a poisonous snake. One bite can cause death.
THEY HATCH COCKATRICE’ EGGS - Margin, ‘Adders’.’ On the meaning of the word rendered here ‘cockatrice,’ see the notes at Isaiah 11:8. Some poisonous serpent is intended, probably the adder, or the ser...
CHAPTER 59 Apostasy and Confession, Jehovah's Intervention and the Coming of the Redeemer 1. _The deplorable condition of the people (Isaiah 59:1) _ 2. _The confession (Isaiah 59:9) _ 3. Jehovah's in...
SOLELY THE SINS OF THE PEOPLE DELAY YAHWEH'S INTERVENTION. Isaiah 59:5, with their fantastic metaphors and bitter invective, are probably a later addition made in even gloomier times. Note the third p...
COCKATRICE. adders', or vipers'. See note on Isaiah 11:8. EGGS... WEB. Note the _Alternation_ in verses: Isaiah 5:6. WEAVE. See note on Isaiah 19:9. VIPER. Occurs in Isaiah only here, and in the "fo...
_cockatrice" eggs_ or BASILISKS " eggs. See on ch. Isaiah 11:8. The figure is expanded in the latter part of the verse, and the meaning seems to be that the persons spoken of brood over and bring to m...
These verses differ somewhat in character from Isaiah 59:3 f., and are regarded by Duhm and Cheyne as a quotation from some Psalm or collection of proverbs. In point of fact the first part of Isaiah 5...
FOR YOUR HANDS ARE DEFILED— The prophet here goes on to specify those iniquities which he had mentioned in general, and in such an order, that he distributes them, as it were, through the members of t...
F. WRATH OF THE LORD UPON COVENANT DESPISERS, CHAPTER 59 1. THEIR CRIMES TEXT: Isaiah 59:1-8 1 Behold, Jehovah's hand is not shortened, that it cannot save; neither his ear heavy, that it cannot he...
They hatch cockatrice' eggs, and weave the spider's web: he that eateth of their eggs dieth, and that which is crushed breaketh out into a viper. COCKATRICE. Probably the basilisk serpent cerastes...
59:5 serpents' (g-3) Perhaps 'vipers'.' But the viper's egg is not laid before it is hatched....
COCKATRICE] RM 'adder.' HE THAT EATETH, etc.] i.e. the man who falls in with their plans is ruined thereby, and he who opposes them is confronted with a still greater danger....
1, 2. An answer to the implied objection that the promises of restoration have not yet been fulfilled....
THEY HATCH COCKATRICE’ EGGS. — Better, _basilisk’s,_ as in Isaiah 14:29. The schemes of the evil-doers are displayed in their power for evil and their impotence for good. To “eat of the eggs,” which a...
בֵּיצֵ֤י צִפְעֹונִי֙ בִּקֵּ֔עוּ וְ קוּרֵ֥י עַכָּבִ֖ישׁ...
CHAPTER XXIII THE REKINDLING OF THE CIVIC CONSCIENCE Isaiah 56:9; Isaiah 57:1; Isaiah 58:1; Isaiah 59:1 IT was inevitable, as so
INIQUITIES SEPARATE FROM GOD Isaiah 59:1-15 _Israel's sins_, Isaiah 59:1-8. Much of our suffering in life results from our sins, which cut off God's health and help. Let us not blame Providence, but...
Continuing, the prophet makes confession of moral failure. This he does first by declaring the reason for national suffering. It is not to be found in Jehovah's inability, nor in His unwillingness. Th...
They hatch (d) eggs of an adder, and weave the spider's (e) web: he that eateth of their eggs dieth, and that which is crushed breaketh out into a viper. (d) Whatever comes from them is poison, and b...
_Basilisk, or viper. (Calmet) --- The young ones "burst through the viper's sides." (Pliny, [Natural History?] x. 62.) --- So the works of the wicked are useless or destructive._...
Here is a long and sad account of men's revolt and transgression, which fully explains what was said before, as well as accounts for the divine corrections which followed. Men may well wait for the li...
5._They hatch the eggs of the basilisk. _The Prophet proceeds farther, comparing the Jews not only to women, but to venomous beasts; so as to make it more evident that everything that proceeds from th...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 58 AND 59. But these moral considerations rouse the indignation of the Spirit at the condition of Israel in the days of the prophecy-their sin and their hypoc...
THEY HATCH COCKATRICE EGGS, AND WEAVE THE SPIDER'S WEB,.... Invent false doctrines according to their own fancies, which may seem fair and plausible, but are poisonous and pernicious; as the "eggs [of...
They hatch cockatrice' eggs, and weave the spider's web: he that eateth of their eggs dieth, and that which is crushed breaketh out into a viper. Ver. 5. They hatch cockatrice' eggs,] _i.e., _ Poison...
_They hatch cockatrice' eggs_ They contrive and execute wicked purposes and practices, whereby sure and sudden destruction is brought upon themselves and others. Of the _cockatrice_, or _basilisk_, as...
They hatch cockatrice's eggs, those of the basilisk serpent, whose venom was deadly, AND WEAVE THE SPIDER'S WEB, to entrap their victims; HE THAT EATETH OF THEIR EGGS DIETH, AND THAT WHICH IS CRUSHED,...
INIQUITIES SEPARATE FROM GOD...
COCKATRICE: Or, adders THAT WHICH IS CRUSHED BREAKETH OUT INTO A VIPER: Or, that which is sprinkled is as if there brake out a viper...
1-8 If our prayers are not answered, and the salvation we wait for is not wrought for us, it is not because God is weary of hearing prayer, but because we are weary of praying. See here sin in true c...
THEY HATCH COCKATRICE EGGS; or _adder_, or _basilisk_; one kind put for any venomous creature; a proverbial speech, signifying by these eggs mischievous designs, and by _hatching_ them their putting t...
Isaiah 59:5 hatch H1234 (H8765) vipers H6848 eggs H1000 weave H707 (H8799) spiders H5908 web H6980 eats...
JUDAH/JACOB IN ITS SIN (ISAIAH 59:1 A). Isaiah 59:1 ‘Behold Yahweh's hand is not shortened that it cannot save, Nor his ear heavy that it cannot hear, But your iniquities have separated between yo...
CONTENTS: Sins which prevented the bestowal of God's blessing and caused chastisements to fall upon Israel. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Holy Spirit CONCLUSION: If prayers are not answered and the salva...
Isaiah 59:1. _Behold, the Lord's hand is not shortened, that it cannot save._ The failure of your fast is not with the Lord; he sees, and he can hear. Neither is the fault in the promises announced by...
_They hatch cockatrice’ eggs_ WICKED DEVICES I. THE DEVICES OF THY. WICKED. 1. Like eggs--productive. 2. Like cockatrice’ eggs--injurious. 3. Like spiders’ webs--frail, useless. II. THEIR EFFECT...
_Behold, the Lord’s hand is not shortened_ Isaiah 57:1. and 59. In the former address, to the dead works on which the people founded their claim to redemption, there were set in contrast the virtues...
ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 59:3 These sins, which keep God’s presence away, are not religious but social. THEY CONCEIVE MISCHIEF AND GIVE BIRTH TO INIQUITY (v. Isaiah 59:4).
EXPOSITION ISAIAH 59:1 A GENERAL REBUKE OF ISRAEL FOR ITS MANIFOLD SINS, The command given to the prophet in Isaiah 58:1 to "show God's people the
Now in fifty-nine: Behold, the LORD'S hand is not shortened, that it cannot save; neither is his ear heavy, that it cannot hear (Isaiah 59:1): "Lord, why aren't You hearing us when we fast? Why aren'...
Isaiah 14:29; Matthew 12:34; Matthew 3:7; Proverbs 23:32...
Cockatrice eggs — One kind put for any venomous creature, a proverbial speech signifying by these eggs mischievous designs, and by hatching them, their putting them in practice. Web — Another proverbi...