Isaiah 5:23 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Which justify the wicked for reward, and take away the righteousness of the righteous from him! ”

Isaiah 5:23 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Which justify - This refers, doubtless, to magistrates. They gave unjust decisions. For reward - For bribes. And take away the righteousness - That is, they do not decide the cause in fav...
Isaiah 5:23 - 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 5:23 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

the wicked . a lawless one. Hebrew. rasha'. reward . a bribe, the righteous . righteous ones. him . them.
Isaiah 5:23 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

23. Who justify the wicked for a reward. He censures a corruption which at that time abounded in judgment-seats, and points out the reason why there is no room for justice in these places, n...
Isaiah 5:23 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Which justify the wicked for reward, and take away the righteousness of the righteous from him! The righteous - צדיק tsaddik, singular, Sept. Vulg., and two editions.
Isaiah 5:23 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Woe unto them that are mighty to drink wine— This troop of vices is closed by drunkenness, joined with injustice and iniquity in judgment. This crime is distinct from that luxury and intemperance i...
Isaiah 5:23 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Woe unto them that are mighty to drink wine, and men of strength to mingle strong drink: Woe unto (them that are) mighty to drink wine ... Which justify the wicked for reward. Sixth woe again...
Isaiah 5:23 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

1-24. Judah, God's unfruitful vineyard, and the judgment upon it.
Isaiah 5:23 - 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 5:23 - 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 5:23 - 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 5:23 - 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 5:23 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Which justify the wicked for reward ,.... This is either spoken of judges, and civil magistrates, who gave the cause in favour of the wicked, that bribed them, contrary to law, Deuteronomy 16:19 o...
Isaiah 5:23 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Which justify the wicked for reward, and take away the righteousness of the righteous from him! Ver. 23. Which justify the wicked for reward, ] q.d., Woe to such also, for even they both are...
Isaiah 5:23 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Denunciations against Sin. B. C. 758. 18 Woe unto them that draw iniquity with cords o...
Isaiah 5:23 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Justify the wicked for reward; not by mistake or incogitancy, but wilfully for bribes. Take away the righteousness of the righteous from him, to wit, juridically; they pronounce sentence against...
Isaiah 5:23 - 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 5:23 - 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 5:23 - 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 5:23 - The Biblical Illustrator

Woe unto them that are mighty to drink wine. .. which justify the wicked for reward Wine-loving lawyers and judges Among the men whom Isaiah denounces as the corrupters and destroyers of the so...
Isaiah 5:23 - 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 5:23 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

A Sixfold Woe upon the Jewish Transgressors
Isaiah 5:23 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Kings 21:13 ; 2 Chronicles 19:7 ; Deuteronomy 16:19 ; Exodus 23:6-9 ; Isaiah 1:23 ; Isaiah 10:2 ; James 5:6 ; Micah 3:11 ; Micah 7:3 ; Matthew 23:35 ; Matthew 27:24 ; Matthew 27:25 ; P...
Isaiah 5:23 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Take away — Pronounce sentence against him.

Isaiah 5:23 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Isaiah 5:23 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Isaiah 5:23 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Isaiah 5:23 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Isaiah 5:23 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Isaiah 5:23 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Isaiah 5:23 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Isaiah 5:23 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Isaiah 5:23 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Isaiah 5:23 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Isaiah 5:23 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Isaiah 5:23 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Isaiah 5:23 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Isaiah 5:23 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Isaiah 5:23 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Isaiah 5:23 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Isaiah 5:23 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Isaiah 5:23 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Isaiah 5:23 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Isaiah 5:23 - The Biblical Illustrator

Isaiah 5:23 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

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

Isaiah 5:23 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Isaiah 5:23 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes