Now will (a) I sing to my (b) wellbeloved a song of my beloved concerning his vineyard. My wellbeloved hath a (c) vineyard in a very fruitful hill: (a) The prophet by this song sets before the people's eyes their ingratitude and God's mercy. (b) That is, to God. (c) Meaning that he had planted hi... [ Continue Reading ]
And he dug it, and removed its stones, and planted it with the choicest vine, (d) and built a tower in the midst of it, and also made a winepress in it: and he expected that it should bring forth grapes, and it brought forth (e) wild grapes. (d) He spared no diligence or cost. (e) In (Isaiah 5:7)... [ Continue Reading ]
And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem, and men of Judah, judge, I pray you, (f) between me and my vineyard. (f) He makes them judges in their own cause, for as much as it was evident that they were the cause of their own ruin.... [ Continue Reading ]
And now come; I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard: I (g) will take away its hedge, and it shall be eaten up; [and] break down the wall of it, and it shall be trodden down: (g) I will take no more care for it: meaning, that he would take from them his word and ministers and all other comfo... [ Continue Reading ]
For the vineyard of the LORD of hosts [is] the house of Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasant plant: and he looked for (h) judgment, but behold oppression; for righteousness, but behold (i) a cry. (h) Judgment and righteousness are true fruit of the fear of God and therefore in the cruel oppres... [ Continue Reading ]
Woe to them that join house to house, [that] lay field to field, till [there is] no (k) place, that they may be placed alone in the midst of the earth! (k) That is, for the poor to dwell in.... [ Continue Reading ]
In my (l) ears [said] the LORD of hosts, Of a truth many houses shall be desolate, [even] great and fair, without inhabitant. (l) I have heard the complaint and cry of the poor.... [ Continue Reading ]
Yea, ten acres of vineyard shall yield one (m) bath, and the seed of an (n) homer shall yield an (o) ephah. (m) Which contains about 5 gallons, so that every acre would yield only half a gallon. (n) Which contains 50 gallons. (o) An ephah contains 5 gallons and is in dry things as much as a bath... [ Continue Reading ]
Woe to them that (p) rise early in the morning, [that] they may follow strong drink; that continue until (q) night, [till] wine inflames them! (p) Who spare no pain nor diligence to follow their lusts. (q) Who are never weary of their rioting and excessive pleasures but use all means to provoke to... [ Continue Reading ]
And the harp, and the viol, the tabret, and pipe, and wine, are in their feasts: but they regard not the (r) work of the LORD, neither consider the operation of his hands. (r) They do not regard the provident care of God over them, nor for what end he has created them.... [ Continue Reading ]
Therefore my people (s) have gone into captivity, because [they have] (t) no knowledge: and their honourable men [are] famished, and their multitude dried up with thirst. (s) That is, will certainly go: for so the prophets use to speak as though the thing which will come to pass were done already.... [ Continue Reading ]
Therefore (u) hell hath enlarged herself, and opened her mouth without measure: and their glory, and their multitude, and their pomp, and he that rejoiceth, shall descend into it. (u) Meaning, the grave will swallow up them who will die for hunger and thirst, and yet for all this great destruction... [ Continue Reading ]
Then shall (x) the lambs feed after their manner, and the waste places of the fat ones shall strangers eat. (x) God comforts the poor lambs of his Church, who had been strangers in other countries, promising that they would dwell in these places again, of which they had been deprived by the fat and... [ Continue Reading ]
Woe to them that draw iniquity with (y) cords of vanity, and sin as it were with a cart rope: (y) Who use all allurements, opportunities and excuses to harden their conscience in sin.... [ Continue Reading ]
That say, (z) Let him make speed, [and] hasten his work, that we may see [it]: and let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel draw near and come, that we may know [it]! (z) He shows what are the words of the wicked, when they are menaced by God's judgments, (2 Peter 3:4).... [ Continue Reading ]
Woe to them that call evil good, (a) and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter! (a) Who are not ashamed of sin, nor care for honesty but are grown to a desperate impiety.... [ Continue Reading ]
Woe to [them that are] (b) wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight! (b) Who contemn all doctrine and admonition.... [ Continue Reading ]
Woe to [them that are] (c) mighty to drink wine, and men of strength to mix strong drink: (c) Who are never weary, but show their strength, and brag in gluttony and drunkenness.... [ Continue Reading ]
Therefore as the fire devoureth the stubble, and the flame consumeth the chaff, [so] their (d) root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust: because they have cast away the law of the LORD of hosts, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel. (d) Both they and their poste... [ Continue Reading ]
Therefore is the anger of the LORD kindled against his people, and he hath stretched forth his (e) hand against them, and hath smitten them: and the hills trembled, and their carcases [were] torn in the midst of the streets. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand [is] stretched out... [ Continue Reading ]
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 against them at his beck, and to fight under his standard.... [ Continue Reading ]
None shall (g) be weary nor stumble among them; none shall slumber nor sleep; neither shall the belt of their loins be loosed, nor (h) the latchet of their shoes be broken: (g) They will be prompt and lusty to execute God's vengeance. (h) The enemy will have no impediment.... [ Continue Reading ]
Their roaring [shall be] like a lion, they shall roar like young lions: yea, they shall (i) roar, and lay hold of the prey, and shall carry [it] away safe, and none shall deliver [it]. (i) By which is declared the cruelty of the enemy.... [ Continue Reading ]
And in that day they shall roar against them like the roaring of the sea: and if (k) [one] looketh to the land, behold darkness [and] sorrow, and the light is darkened in its (l) heavens. (k) The Jews will find no comfort. (l) In the land of Judah.... [ Continue Reading ]