Isaiah 5

Isaiah 5:1

Buy - Purchase it upon any terms, spare no pains or cost. Truth - The true and saving knowledge of God’s will. Sell it not - Do not forsake it for any worldly advantage.

Isaiah 5:4

Give me - Solomon here speaks in God’s name.

Isaiah 5:8

Mixt wine - Either mixed with water, or with other ingredients to make it strong and delicious.

Isaiah 5:9

Red - Which was the colour of the best wines in that country. Aright - When it sparkles, and seems to smile upon a man.

Isaiah 5:12

Lieth down - To sleep. Sea - In a ship in the midst of the sea.

Isaiah 5:13

Sick - I was not sensible of it. Again - At present my condition requires sleep to settle myself, and when I am composed, I purpose to return to my former course.

Isaiah 5:15

Sick - I was not sensible of it. Again - At present my condition requires sleep to settle myself, and when I am composed, I purpose to return to my former course.

Isaiah 5:16

Destruction - How they may oppress and destroy others.

Isaiah 5:17

Through wisdom - There is no need that thou shouldest raise thy family by ruining others, which thou mayest more effectually do by wisdom.

Isaiah 5:18

By knowledge - Which in scripture phrase includes the love and practice of what we know.

Isaiah 5:19

Is strong - Is courageous and resolute, and able by wisdom to do greater things than others can accomplish by strength.

Isaiah 5:20

Thy war - War is better managed by wisdom than by strength.

Isaiah 5:21

A fool - For a wicked man, whose sins enfeeble his mind, and make it incapable of wisdom. Openeth not - He knows not how to speak acceptably, and profitably in the publick assembly.

Isaiah 5:22

Shall be called - Though he cover his wicked devices with fair pretences, he shall be branded with that infamy which is due to him.

Isaiah 5:23

The thought - The very inward thought or contrivance of evil, is a sin in God’s sight.

Isaiah 5:25

Deliver - When it is in thy power. Drawn - By the violence of lawless men.

Isaiah 5:26

Consider - That this is only a frivolous excuse.

Isaiah 5:27

Eat - This is not a command, but a concession, and is only here expressed to illustrate the following verse. Honey in those parts was an usual food.

Isaiah 5:28

A reward - It is not only sweet for the present, but brings a sure and everlasting reward.

Isaiah 5:30

Falleth - Into calamities, of which he evidently speaks both in the foregoing verse, and in the following branch of this verse. Fall - Frequently into irrecoverable destruction.