Isaiah 5:20

2 Peter 2:1; 2 Peter 2:18; 2 Peter 2:19; 2 Timothy 3:1-5; Luke 11:35; Luke 16:15; Malachi 2:17; Malachi 3:15; Matthew 15:3-6; Matthew 23:16-23; Matthew 6:23; Proverbs 17:15

Related Commentaries of Isaiah 5:20

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Wo unto them that call evil good ... - This is the fourth class of sins denounced. The sin which is reprobated here is that of “perverting and co...
Arno Geneva Study Bible

Woe to them that call evil good, (a) and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bit...
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 si...
Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

call . are calling. evil good. Note the Introversion in each of the three clauses of this verse. put . give out.
Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

20. Wo to them that call evil good. Though some limit this statement to judges, yet if it be carefully examined, we shall easily learn from...
Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

DISCOURSE: 865 THE SINFULNESS OF CONFOUNDING GOOD AND EVIL Isaiah 5:20 . Wo unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for...
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitte...
Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Woe unto them that call evil good, &c.— The fourth crime alleged is, the subversion of all the principles of truth, and of equity in judgment....
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for b...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

1-24. Judah, God's unfruitful vineyard, and the judgment upon it.
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

The perverting of all moral distinctions.
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Woe unto them that call evil good. — The moral state described was the natural outcome of the sins condemned in the preceding verses. So Thucydides...
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...
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...
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 fi...
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 t...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil ,.... That call evil actions good, and good actions evil; that excuse the one, and reproach the oth...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitte...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Wo unto them that call evil good, and good evil That endeavour to confound both the names and the natures of virtue and vice, of piety and impiety;...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Denunciations against Sin. B. C. 758. ...
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

That call evil good, and good evil; that take away the difference between good and evil; that justify and approve wicked men and things, and condem...
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 p...
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...
Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

THE INFLUENCE OF LANGUAGE ON CHARACTER Isaiah 5:20 . Woe to them, that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for d...
Sermon Bible Commentary

Isaiah 5:20 I. The sin against which I would warn you is the sin of disregarding, and even of in the least degree underrating, the eternal distinc...
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...
The Biblical Illustrator

Woe unto them that call evil good and good evil Woe unto them that call evil good and good evil There is a customary mode of talking, in which...
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 c...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

A Sixfold Woe upon the Jewish Transgressors
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Woe unto them that call evil good and good evil, thus reversing all principles of true morality; that put darkness for light and light for darkness,...
Wesley's Explanatory Notes

To them — That take away the difference between good and evil; that justify wicked men and things, and condemn piety, or righteous persons.

²⁰ Woe unto them that calle evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!

Related Commentaries of Isaiah 5:20

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arno Geneva Study Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Sermon Bible Commentary

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Wesley's Explanatory Notes

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