Isaiah 5:14 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Therefore 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. ”

Isaiah 5:14 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Therefore hell - The word transated “hell,” שׁאול sh e 'ôl , has not the same meaning that we now attach to that word; its usual signification, among the Hebrews, was “the lower world, th...
Isaiah 5:14 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

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 g...
Isaiah 5:14 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

A Series of Denunciations on Various Offenders. This section contains a collection of Woes, originally independent and even now not woven into a single symmetrical address. Whether they come from d...
Isaiah 5:14 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

hell . Sheol. App-35. enlarged. Figure of speech Prosopopoeia . App-6. herself. . her soul. Hebrew. nephesh . App-13. her. All these feminine pronouns-mean that the nouns belong to Sheol....
Isaiah 5:14 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

14. Therefore hell hath enlarged his soul (86) In this verse the Prophet intended to heighten the alarm of men who were at their ease, and not yet sufficiently affected by the threatenings...
Isaiah 5:14 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Therefore 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.
Isaiah 5:14 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Woe unto them that rise up, &c.— Another vice which the prophet reproves in these verses, is luxury or intemperance; whose companion and daughter is Inconsideration of the works of God, whose c...
Isaiah 5:14 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Therefore 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. Therefore hell -...
Isaiah 5:14 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

1-24. Judah, God's unfruitful vineyard, and the judgment upon it.
Isaiah 5:14 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Therefore hell hath enlarged herself. — The Hebrew Sheol, or Hades, like “hell” itself in its original meaning, expressed not a place of torment, but the vast shadow – world of death, thought o...
Isaiah 5:14 - 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 5:1-30 ; Isaiah 9:8 - Isaiah 10:4 THE prophecy contained in these Chapter s b...
Isaiah 5:14 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

a Disappointing Harvest Isaiah 5:1-17 In a picture of great beauty, Isaiah describes a vineyard situated on one of the sunny heights visible from Jerusalem. Every care which an experienced vine...
Isaiah 5:14 - 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 fam...
Isaiah 5:14 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

How striking are these expressions! wine and dancing, revelling and music, rioting and sensuality, bring on their own punishments. Hell and the grave yawn to receive those who kill themselves by inte...
Isaiah 5:14 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Therefore hell hath enlarged herself ,.... That is, the grave, to receive the dead which die with famine and thirst; signifying that the number of the dead would be so great, that the common burying...
Isaiah 5:14 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Therefore 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. Ver. 14. Therefore h...
Isaiah 5:14 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Therefore the people are gone into captivity The prophet may refer to those carried captive in the time of Ahaz: see on Isaiah 2:20 . Or his words may be rendered, the people go into , &c.; t...
Isaiah 5:14 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Worldly-Mindedness Reproved; The Punishment of the Sensual. B. C. 758. 8 Woe unto them...
Isaiah 5:14 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Hell; or, the grave , as this word most commonly signifies. Opened her mouth without measure, to receive those vast numbers which shall die by this famine, or otherwise, as is here implied. The...
Isaiah 5:14 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

The Six Woes of God ( Isaiah 5:8-30 ). 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. Th...
Isaiah 5:14 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

WILD GRAPES Isaiah 5:8-23 . Woe unto them that join house to house, &c. It is important to remember that this whole chapter constitutes one prophecy. Much of the power of its teaching will b...
Isaiah 5:14 - Scofield Reference Notes

hell Hebrew, "Sheol," ( See Scofield) - ( Habakkuk 2:5 ).
Isaiah 5:14 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Isaiah 5:1 . Now will I sing to my well-beloved a song of my beloved touching his vineyard. My Well-beloved hath a vineyard in a very fruitful hill: The Song of the Vineyard is by no means a joyf...
Isaiah 5:14 - 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 80:14-15 ; Ezekiel 17:6 ; Hosea 10:1 ; Matthew 20:1-16...
Isaiah 5:14 - The Biblical Illustrator

Hell hath enlarged herself. .. the Lord of hosts shall be exalted in Judgment The grave “Hell,” here, stands not for future punishment. The word “Sheol” in Hebrew, “Hades” in Greek, and “Hell”...
Isaiah 5:14 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION Isaiah 5:1-23 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...
Isaiah 5:14 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

A Sixfold Woe upon the Jewish Transgressors
Isaiah 5:14 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Samuel 25:36-38 ; 2 Samuel 13:28 ; 2 Samuel 13:29 ; Acts 12:21-23 ; Daniel 5:30 ; Daniel 5:3-6 ; Ezekiel 32:18-30 ; Habakkuk 2:5 ; Isaiah 14:9 ; Isaiah 21:4 ; Isaiah 30:33 ; Luke 12:19...
Isaiah 5:14 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

And he — That spends all his days in mirth and jollity.

Isaiah 5:14 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Isaiah 5:14 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Isaiah 5:14 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Isaiah 5:14 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Isaiah 5:14 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Isaiah 5:14 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Isaiah 5:14 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Isaiah 5:14 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Isaiah 5:14 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Isaiah 5:14 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Isaiah 5:14 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Isaiah 5:14 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Isaiah 5:14 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Isaiah 5:14 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Isaiah 5:14 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Isaiah 5:14 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Isaiah 5:14 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Isaiah 5:14 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Isaiah 5:14 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Isaiah 5:14 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Isaiah 5:14 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Isaiah 5:14 - Scofield Reference Notes

Isaiah 5:14 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Isaiah 5:14 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Isaiah 5:14 - The Biblical Illustrator

Isaiah 5:14 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Isaiah 5:14 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Isaiah 5:14 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Isaiah 5:14 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes