Isaiah 5:17 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Then shall the lambs feed after their manner, and the waste places of the fat ones shall strangers eat. ”

Isaiah 5:17 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Then shall the lambs feed - This verse is very variously interpreted. Most of the Hebrew commentators have followed the Chaldee interpretation, and have regarded it as desired to console the piou...
Isaiah 5:17 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

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,...
Isaiah 5:17 - 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 5:17 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

strangers . foreigners.
Isaiah 5:17 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

17. And the lambs shall feed after their manner. Some render it according to their measure, or, in proportion to their capacity, but it means in the usual manner. There are various way...
Isaiah 5:17 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Then shall the lambs feed after their manner, and the waste places of the fat ones shall strangers eat. The lambs "And the kids" - גרים gerim, "strangers." The Septuagint read, more agreeably to the...
Isaiah 5:17 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Then shall the lambs feed, &c.— Vitringa is of opinion, that this verse refers to the first disciples of Jesus Christ, who, seeing and deploring the destruction of the Jews, should rest safely...
Isaiah 5:17 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Then shall the lambs feed after their manner, and the waste places of the fat ones shall strangers eat. Then shall the lambs feed after their manner - kªdaabªraam ( H1699 ); literally, a...
Isaiah 5:17 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

1-24. Judah, God's unfruitful vineyard, and the judgment upon it.
Isaiah 5:17 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Then shall the lambs feed after their manner. — Better, feed even as on their pasture. The meaning is clear enough. The lands that have been gained by oppression shall, in the day of retribution,...
Isaiah 5:17 - 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 5:17 - 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 5:17 - 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 5:17 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Here is a sweet break to the sad account, which, like some herbage to the traveler over a desert, comes in to our relief in these verses. Jesus will be exalted in the hearts of his redeemed, in the w...
Isaiah 5:17 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Then shall the lambs feed after their manner ,.... That is, the people of God, the disciples of Christ, either apostles and ministers of the Gospel, whom he sent forth as lambs among wolves, Luke...
Isaiah 5:17 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Then shall the lambs feed after their manner, and the waste places of the fat ones shall strangers eat. Ver. 17. Then shall the lambs feed after their manner, ] i.e., Freely and quietly. By lam...
Isaiah 5:17 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

And the mean man , &c. All of them, both high and low, shall be brought to destruction. But the Lord shall be exalted in judgment By the execution of his just judgment upon his incorrigible en...
Isaiah 5:17 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Worldly-Mindedness Reproved; The Punishment of the Sensual. B. C. 758. 8 Woe unto them...
Isaiah 5:17 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Then; when God shall have finished that work of judgment upon the ungodly, he will extend mercy to a remainder. This is very usual in this prophet, in the midst of his threatenings, to insert somet...
Isaiah 5:17 - 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 5:17 - 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 5:17 - 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 5:17 - 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 5:17 - 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 5:17 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

A Sixfold Woe upon the Jewish Transgressors
Isaiah 5:17 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Amos 4:1-3 ; Deuteronomy 28:33 ; Deuteronomy 32:15 ; Hosea 8:7 ; Isaiah 1:7 ; Isaiah 10:16 ; Isaiah 17:2 ; Isaiah 32:14 ; Isaiah 40:11 ; Isaiah 65:10 ; Isaiah 7:21 ; Isaiah 7:22 ; Isaiah...
Isaiah 5:17 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Then — When God shall have finished that work of judgment. The lambs — The poor and harmless people, who shall be left in the land when the rich are carried into captivity. Manner — Or, by their fo...

Isaiah 5:17 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Isaiah 5:17 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Isaiah 5:17 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Isaiah 5:17 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Isaiah 5:17 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Isaiah 5:17 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Isaiah 5:17 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Isaiah 5:17 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Isaiah 5:17 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Isaiah 5:17 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Isaiah 5:17 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Isaiah 5:17 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Isaiah 5:17 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Isaiah 5:17 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Isaiah 5:17 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Isaiah 5:17 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Isaiah 5:17 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Isaiah 5:17 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Isaiah 5:17 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Isaiah 5:17 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Isaiah 5:17 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Isaiah 5:17 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Isaiah 5:17 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Isaiah 5:17 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Isaiah 5:17 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Isaiah 5:17 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Isaiah 5:17 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes