Commentaries Dictionaries Concordances

Hawker's Poor man's commentary

Isaiah 5:26-30

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 ill with him, Isaiah 3:10. And may we not make application of what is here said, in both senses? The Lord will lift up an ensign for his people, in the same moment that he will lift up an ensign for destruction to his enemies. And when Jesus, the glorious ensign of his people's redemption comes, it is both for vengeance and for salvation. See Isaiah 11:10 and Isaiah 63:4.

Continues after advertising

See also Isaiah 5:26-30 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    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)_...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    HISS UNTO. hiss for (as men call bees). THEY SHALL COME. Note the Figure of speech _Hypotyposis_ in Isaiah 5:26....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _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;...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    A powerful description of the advance of the invaders, who however remain unnamed....

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    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...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    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...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    1-24. Judah, God's unfruitful vineyard, and the judgment upon it....

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    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 d

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    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...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    And God uses nations. He will send powerful enemies, first the *Assyrians, and then the *Babylonians....

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    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...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וְ נָֽשָׂא ־נֵ֤ס לַ † גֹּויִם֙ מֵ...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    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...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    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:...

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

    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...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    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...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _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....

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    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...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    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...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    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...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    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...

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

    _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...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    A SIXFOLD WOE UPON THE JEWISH TRANSGRESSORS...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    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...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    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...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Isaiah 5:26 up H5375 (H8804) banner H5251 nations H1471 afar H7350 whistle H8319 (H8804) end H7097 earth...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _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...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _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...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    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...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 5:26 NATIONS, including Assyria, are summoned by the sovereign God with a mere whistle. ⇐...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    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...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    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...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    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...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Deuteronomy 28:49; Habakkuk 1:8; Isaiah 11:12; Isaiah 18:3; Isaiah

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    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...

Continues after advertising