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Verse Isaiah 5:28. _THEIR HORSES' HOOFS SHALL BE COUNTED LIKE FLINT_
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of horses with iron plates nailed to the hoof is quite a mo...
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WHOSE ARROWS ARE SHARP - Bows and arrows were the common instruments
of fighting at a distance. Arrows were, of course, made sharp, and
usually pointed with iron, for the purpose of penetrating the sh...
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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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A powerful description of the advance of the invaders, who however
remain unnamed....
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_bows bent_ which was done only for immediate action. HIS _horses"
hoofs … flint_ Therefore he will not shrink from riding them on the
rocky soil of Palestine, which was extremely unfavourable to the...
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NONE SHALL BE WEARY, &C.— We have in these verses a description of
the quality of the forces which should come against Jerusalem; their
vigour, activity, and diligence: Isaiah 5:27 their military
expe...
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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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Whose arrows are sharp, and all their bows bent, their horses' hoofs
shall be counted like flint, and their wheels like a whirlwind:
ALL THEIR BOWS BENT - ready for battle.
THEIR HORSES' HOOFS ....
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1-24. Judah, God's unfruitful vineyard, and the judgment upon it....
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ISAIAH: GOD CONTROLS THE NATIONS
ISAIAH DECLARES HOW GOD’S PEOPLE SHOULD BE LIVING
ISAIAH CHAPTER S 1 TO 9
_NORMAN HILLYER_
CHAPTER 5
Chapter 5 begins with a parable (a story with a double mean...
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And God uses nations. He will send powerful enemies, first the
*Assyrians, and then the *Babylonians....
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(27-29) NONE SHALL BE WEARY... — The three verses paint the progress
of the invading army. Unresting, unhasting, in perfect order, they
march onward. They do not loosen their girdle for repose. The la...
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אֲשֶׁ֤ר חִצָּיו֙ שְׁנוּנִ֔ים וְ כָל
־קַשְּׁתֹתָ֖יו...
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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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_Hoofs. They were hardened, but not shod. (Xenophon) (Amos vi. 13.)_...
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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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28._Their arrows will be sharp. _He means that they will be provided
with necessary weapons. The custom alluded to is that which existed
among the Assyrians and other eastern nations, who frequently m...
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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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WHOSE ARROWS [ARE] SHARP, AND ALL THEIR BOWS BENT,.... Ready to shoot
their arrows upon any occasion; and which being sharp, penetrated
deep, and were deadly. This includes all kind of warlike instrum...
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Whose arrows [are] sharp, and all their bows bent, their horses' hoofs
shall be counted like flint, and their wheels like a whirlwind:
Ver. 28. _Whose arrows are sharp._] Or, Sharpened, _sc., _ to wo...
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_None_, &c. In these verses the prophet describes the quality of the
forces which should come against Jerusalem; their vigour, activity,
and diligence, Isaiah 5:27; their military expedition, readines...
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A SIXFOLD WOE UPON THE JEWISH TRANSGRESSORS...
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whose arrows are sharp and all their bows bent, ready to send the
arrows to their mark; THEIR HORSES' HOOFS SHALL BE COUNTED LIKE FLINT,
a most important attribute for a campaign of war carried to suc...
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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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WHOSE ARROWS ARE SHARP, AND ALL THEIR BOWS BENT; who are every way
furnished and ready for my work, waiting only for my command. THEIR
HORSES HOOFS SHALL BE COUNTED LIKE FLINT, because they shall not...
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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 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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_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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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 5:27 Isaiah describes the approach of invading
military forces. This is a far cry from the nations approaching Zion
to learn the ways of God and cease from war (Isaiah 2:2)....
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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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Ezekiel 21:9; Jeremiah 47:3; Jeremiah 5:16; Judges 5:22; Micah 4:13;...
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Bent — Who are every way furnished and ready for my work, waiting
only for my command. Flint — Because they shall not be broken or
battered by the length or stonyness and ruggedness of the way.
Whirlw...