Isaiah 5:11-17 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

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NATIONAL UNGODLINESS

Isaiah 5:11-17. Woe unto them that rise up early in the morning, that they may follow strong drink, &c.

National ungodliness.

I. Its phases, dissipation, drunkenness, forgetfulness of God.

II. Its punishment, captivity, famine, pestilence, humiliation.

III. The certainty of its visitation, God must be vindicated, His people must be delivered [622] Lyth, D.D.

[622] The individual culprit may sometimes

Unpunished to his after-reckoning go:
Not thus collective man; for public crimes
Draw on their proper punishment below.
When nations go astray, from age to age
The effects remain, a fatal heritage.
Bear witness, Egypt, thy huge monuments,
Of priestly fraud and tyranny austere!
Bear witness thou, whose only name presents
All holy feelings to religion dear—
In earth’s dark circlet once the precious gem
Of living light—O fallen Jerusalem!
—Southey.

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Isaiah 5:11-17

11 Woe unto them that rise up early in the morning, that they may follow strong drink; that continue until night, till wine inflameb them!

12 And the harp, and the viol, the tabret, and pipe, and wine, are in their feasts: but they regard not the work of the LORD, neither consider the operation of his hands.

13 Therefore my people are gone into captivity, because they have no knowledge: and their honourablec men are famished, and their multitude dried up with thirst.

14 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.

15 And the mean man shall be brought down, and the mighty man shall be humbled, and the eyes of the lofty shall be humbled:

16 But the LORD of hosts shall be exalted in judgment, and Godd that is holy shall be sanctified in righteousness.

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