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Commentaries on Isaiah 5:17

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John Gill - Exposition

John Gill

INTRODUCTION TO Isaiah 5 In this chapter, under the parable of a vineyard and its ruins, the Jews and their destruction are represented; the reasons of which are given, their manifold sins and transgressions, particularly enumerated, with the punishment threatened to them, and which is delivered in form of a song. The vineyard is described by the owner of it, a well beloved one; by the situation...

John Gill - Exposition

John Gill

Then shall the lambs feed after their manner,.... That is, the people of God, the disciples of Christ, either apostles and ministers of the Gospel, whom he sent forth as lambs among wolves, Lu 10:3 who fed the flock of Christ after their usual manner, and as directed by him; even with knowledge and understanding, by the ministry of the word, and administration of ordinances; or the people of God...

Matthew Henry - Complete Commentary

Matthew Henry

In this chapter the prophet, in God's name, shows the people of God their transgressions, even the house of Jacob their sins, and the judgments which were likely to be brought upon them for their sins, I. By a parable, under the similitude of an unfruitful vineyard, representing the great favours God had bestowed upon them, their disappointing his expectations from them, and the ruin they had...

Spurgeon - Verse Expositions

Charles H. Spurgeon

Then shall the lambs feed after their manner, and the waste places of the fat ones shall strangers eat. It is ever so. There is always room for the tender, and the gentle, and the weak, when God smites the haughty and the strong.