Isaiah 5:9 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ In mine ears said the LORD of hosts, Of a truth many houses shall be desolate, even great and fair, without inhabitant. ”

Isaiah 5:9 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

In mine ears - This probably refers to the prophet. As if he had said, ‘God has revealed it to me,’ or ‘God has said in my ears,’ i. e, to me. The Septuagint reads it, ‘These things are heard in...
Isaiah 5:9 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

In my (l) ears [said] the LORD of hosts, Of a truth many houses shall be desolate, [even] great and fair, without inhabitant. (l) I have heard the complaint and cry of the poor.
Isaiah 5:9 - 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 5:9 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

ears. Figure of speech Anthropopatheia . said. Note Ellipsis of the verb "to say". See App-6 and instructive examples in Psalms 109:5 ; Psalms 144:12 . Psalms 28:9 ; Jeremiah 9:19 , &c...
Isaiah 5:9 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

9. This is in the ears of Jehovah of hosts. Here something must be supplied; for he means that the Lord sits as judge, and as taking cognizance of those things. When covetous men seize and h...
Isaiah 5:9 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

In mine ears said the LORD of hosts, Of a truth many houses shall be desolate, even great and fair, without inhabitant. In mine ears. "To mine ear" - The sentence in the Hebrew text seems to be i...
Isaiah 5:9 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

In mine ears said the LORD of hosts, Of a truth many houses shall be desolate, even great and fair, without inhabitant. Irony. They shall get their wish, in the sense that survivors shall be '...
Isaiah 5:9 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

1-24. Judah, God's unfruitful vineyard, and the judgment upon it.
Isaiah 5:9 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

In mine ears said the Lord. — The italics show that there is no verb in the Hebrew, the text, if it be correct, giving the emphasis of abruptness; but it is rightly supplied in the Authorised Versi...
Isaiah 5:9 - 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 5:9 - 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 5:9 - 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 5:9 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

The prophet speaks with confidence, concerning the issue of worldly minded men in their pursuits, because the Lord said it, and so plain, as when a man whispers in the ear of another. It is a general...
Isaiah 5:9 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

In mine ears, [said] the Lord of hosts ,.... This may be understood either of the ears of the Lord of hosts, into which came the cry of the sins of covetousness and ambition before mentioned; these...
Isaiah 5:9 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

In mine ears [said] the LORD of hosts, Of a truth many houses shall be desolate, [even] great and fair, without inhabitant. Ver. 9. In mine ears, said the Lord of hosts. ] Or, In the ears of the L...
Isaiah 5:9 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Wo unto them , &c. The unfolding of the parable, after the general key in the preceding verse, comprehends two things, according to the argument of the parable; the crimes of this ungrateful peo...
Isaiah 5:9 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Worldly-Mindedness Reproved; The Punishment of the Sensual. B. C. 758. 8 Woe unto them...
Isaiah 5:9 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

In mine ears said the Lord; I heard God speak what I now about to utter. Heb. In the ears of the Lord ; may relate either, 1. To the foregoing words; The cry of your sins, and of the oppressed,...
Isaiah 5:9 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

The First Woe ( Isaiah 5:8-10 ). Isaiah 5:8-10 ‘Woe to those who join house to house, Who lay field to field, Until there is no room, And you are made to dwell alone in the land. In my ears...
Isaiah 5:9 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

COVETOUSNESS Isaiah 5:8-10 . Woe unto them that join house to house, &c. Covetousness is—I. Ruinous to the individual [601] II. Mischievous to society. III. Offensive to God. IV. Certain to...
Isaiah 5:9 - 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 5:9 - 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 5:9 - The Biblical Illustrator

Woe unto them that join house to house, that lay field to field The selfish landowner Selfishness, or the making self the centre to which all things are to tend, is the great sin in all ages an...
Isaiah 5:9 - 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 5:9 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

A Sixfold Woe upon the Jewish Transgressors
Isaiah 5:9 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

2 Chronicles 36:21 ; Amos 3:7 ; Amos 5:11 ; Amos 6:11 ; Isaiah 22:14 ; Isaiah 27:10 ; Isaiah 5:6 ; Matthew 22:7 ; Matthew 23:38
Isaiah 5:9 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

In mine ears — I heard God speak what I am about to utter.

Isaiah 5:9 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Isaiah 5:9 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Isaiah 5:9 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Isaiah 5:9 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Isaiah 5:9 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Isaiah 5:9 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Isaiah 5:9 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Isaiah 5:9 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Isaiah 5:9 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Isaiah 5:9 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Isaiah 5:9 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Isaiah 5:9 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Isaiah 5:9 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Isaiah 5:9 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Isaiah 5:9 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Isaiah 5:9 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Isaiah 5:9 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Isaiah 5:9 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Isaiah 5:9 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Isaiah 5:9 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Isaiah 5:9 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Isaiah 5:9 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Isaiah 5:9 - The Biblical Illustrator

Isaiah 5:9 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Isaiah 5:9 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Isaiah 5:9 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Isaiah 5:9 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes