Isaiah 5:18 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Woe unto them that draw iniquity with cords of vanity, and sin as it were with a cart rope: ”

Isaiah 5:18 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Wo unto them ... - This is a new denunciation. It introduces another form of sin, and threatens its appropriate punishment. That draw iniquity with cords of vanity - The general idea in this...
Isaiah 5:18 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

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.
Isaiah 5:18 - 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 5:18 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

iniquity. Hebrew. 'avah. App-44. cords, &c. Which draw on sin by the load. cart rope. Implies sin by the cart-load.
Isaiah 5:18 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

18. Wo unto them that draw iniquity with cords of vanity! After having inserted a short consolation for the purpose of allaying the bitterness of punishments as regards the godly, he returns...
Isaiah 5:18 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Woe unto them that draw iniquity with cords of vanity, and sin as it were with a cart rope: With a cart-rope "As a long cable" - The Septuagint, Aquila, Sym., and Theod., for בחבלי bechabley, read כח...
Isaiah 5:18 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Woe unto them that draw iniquity, &c.— The third crime is, the pretence of false and wicked reasonings, by which the profane bring their minds to perpetrate the most abominable crimes against t...
Isaiah 5:18 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Woe unto them that draw iniquity with cords of vanity, and sin as it were with a cart rope: Woe unto them that draw iniquity - guilt, incurring punishment. The third woe-against obstinate per...
Isaiah 5:18 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

1-24. Judah, God's unfruitful vineyard, and the judgment upon it.
Isaiah 5:18 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

That draw iniquity with cords of vanity. — The phrase is boldly figurative. Evil-doers are thought of as harnessing themselves as to the chariot of sin. The “cords of vanity” — i.e., of emptiness...
Isaiah 5:18 - 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 5:18 - 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 5:18 - 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 5:18 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Here are accounts of still increasing wickedness, and woes of still increasing misery. Reader, in the present Christ despising generation, doth not the prophet's representation suit, as though writte...
Isaiah 5:18 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Woe unto them that draw iniquity with cords of vanity ,.... The prophet returns to the wicked again, and goes on with the account of their sin and punishment; and here describes such, not that are d...
Isaiah 5:18 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Woe unto them that draw iniquity with cords of vanity, and sin as it were with a cart rope: Ver. 18. Woe unto them that draw iniquity. ] That draw sin to them, as a beast draweth a cart after it....
Isaiah 5:18 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Wo unto them that draw iniquity That are not only drawn to sin by the allurements of the world, or by the persuasions of wicked men, but are active and industrious in drawing sin to themselves, or...
Isaiah 5:18 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Denunciations against Sin. B. C. 758. 18 Woe unto them that draw iniquity with cords o...
Isaiah 5:18 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

That draw iniquity; that are not only drawn to sin by the allurements of the world, or by the persuasions of wicked men, being surprised and overtaken by sin, as sometimes good men are, Galatians...
Isaiah 5:18 - 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 5:18 - 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 5:18 - 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 5:18 - 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 5:18 - The Biblical Illustrator

Woe unto them that draw iniquity with cords of vanity. Frivolity and profanity Frivolity, he says, is the herald and handmaid of guilt. The cords are cords of vanity bound about us in mere thou...
Isaiah 5:18 - 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 5:18 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

A Sixfold Woe upon the Jewish Transgressors
Isaiah 5:18 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

2 Samuel 16:20-23 ; Acts 26:9 ; Ezekiel 13:10 ; Ezekiel 13:11 ; Ezekiel 13:22 ; Isaiah 28:15 ; Jeremiah 23:10 ; Jeremiah 23:14 ; Jeremiah 23:24 ; Jeremiah 28:15 ; Jeremiah 28:16 ; Jeremia...
Isaiah 5:18 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

That draw — That are not only drawn to sin by the allurements of the world; but are active and illustrious in drawing sin to themselves. Cords — Or, with cords of lying, as the last word frequently...

Isaiah 5:18 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Isaiah 5:18 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Isaiah 5:18 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Isaiah 5:18 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Isaiah 5:18 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Isaiah 5:18 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Isaiah 5:18 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Isaiah 5:18 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Isaiah 5:18 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Isaiah 5:18 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Isaiah 5:18 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Isaiah 5:18 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Isaiah 5:18 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Isaiah 5:18 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Isaiah 5:18 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Isaiah 5:18 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Isaiah 5:18 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Isaiah 5:18 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Isaiah 5:18 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Isaiah 5:18 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Isaiah 5:18 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Isaiah 5:18 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Isaiah 5:18 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Isaiah 5:18 - The Biblical Illustrator

Isaiah 5:18 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Isaiah 5:18 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Isaiah 5:18 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Isaiah 5:18 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes