Chapter 5:
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Introduction 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 Song of Solomon Jeremiah
Isaiah 5
Concise Complete
The state and conduct of the Jewish nation. (1-7) The
judgments which would come. (8-23) The executioners of these judgments. (24-30)
Verses 1-7 Christ
is God's beloved Son, and our beloved Saviour. The care of the Lord over the
church of Israel, is described by the management of a vineyard. The advantages
of our situation will be brought into the account another day. He planted it
with the choicest vines; gave them a most excellent law, instituted proper
ordinances. The temple was a tower, where God gave tokens of his presence. He
set up his altar, to which the sacrifices should be brought; all the means of
grace are denoted thereby. God expects fruit from those that enjoy privileges.
Good purposes and good beginnings are good things, but not enough; there must be
vineyard fruit; thoughts and affections, words and actions, agreeable to the
Spirit. It brought forth bad fruit. Wild grapes are the fruits of the corrupt
nature. Where grace does not work, corruption will. But the wickedness of those
that profess religion, and enjoy the means of grace, must be upon the sinners
themselves. They shall no longer be a peculiar people. When errors and vice go
without check or control, the vineyard is unpruned; then it will soon be grown
over with thorns. This is often shown in the departure of God's Spirit from
those who have long striven against him, and the removal of his gospel from
places which have long been a reproach to it. The explanation is given. It is
sad with a soul, when, instead of the grapes of humility, meekness, love,
patience, and contempt of the world, for which God looks, there are the wild
grapes of pride, passion, discontent, and malice, and contempt of God; instead
of the grapes of praying and praising, the wild grapes of cursing and swearing.
Let us bring forth fruit with patience, that in the end we may obtain
everlasting life.
Verses 8-23 Here
is a woe to those who set their hearts on the wealth of the world. Not that it
is sinful for those who have a house and a field to purchase another; but the
fault is, that they never know when they have enough. Covetousness is idolatry;
and while many envy the prosperous, wretched man, the Lord denounces awful woes
upon him. How applicable to many among us! God has many ways to empty the most
populous cities. Those who set their hearts upon the world, will justly be
disappointed. Here is woe to those who dote upon the pleasures and the delights
of sense. The use of music is lawful; but when it draws away the heart from God,
then it becomes a sin to us. God's judgments have seized them, but they will not
disturb themselves in their pleasures. The judgments are declared. Let a man be
ever so high, death will bring him low; ever so mean, death will bring him
lower. The fruit of these judgments shall be, that God will be glorified as a
God of power. Also, as a God that is holy; he shall be owned and declared to be
so, in the righteous punishment of proud men. Those are in a woful condition who
set up sin, and who exert themselves to gratify their base lusts. They are
daring in sin, and walk after their own lusts; it is in scorn that they call God
the Holy One of Israel. They confound and overthrow distinctions between good
and evil. They prefer their own reasonings to Divine revelations; their own
devices to the counsels and commands of God. They deem it prudent and politic to
continue profitable sins, and to neglect self-denying duties. Also, how light
soever men make of drunkenness, it is a sin which lays open to the wrath and
curse of God. Their judges perverted justice. Every sin needs some other to
conceal it.
Verses 24-30 Let
not any expect to live easily who live wickedly. Sin weakens the strength, the
root of a people; it defaces the beauty, the blossoms of a people. When God's
word is despised, and his law cast away, what can men expect but that God should
utterly abandon them? When God comes forth in wrath, the hills tremble, fear
seizes even great men. When God designs the ruin of a provoking people, he can
find instruments to be employed in it, as he sent for the Chaldeans, and
afterwards the Romans, to destroy the Jews. Those who would not hear the voice
of God speaking by his prophets, shall hear the voice of their enemies roaring
against them. Let the distressed look which way they will, all appears dismal.
If God frowns upon us, how can any creature smile? Let us diligently seek the
well-grounded assurance, that when all earthly helps and comforts shall fail,
God himself will be the strength of our hearts, and our portion for ever.
Chapter 5:
| Darby
| Geneva
| Gill
| Jamieson Faussett Brown
| Matthew Henry
| Matthew Henry Concise
| Wesley
| Index
| Bible Gateway |
Introduction 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 Song of Solomon Jeremiah
Genesis
Exodus
Leviticus
Numbers
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Joshua
Judges
Ruth
1 Samuel
2 Samuel
1 Kings
2 Kings
1 Chronicles
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Ezra
Nehemiah
Esther
Job
Psalm
Proverbs
Ecclesiastes
Song of Solomon
Isaiah
Jeremiah
Lamentations
Ezekiel
Daniel
Hosea
Joel
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Malachi
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1 Timothy
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Titus
Philemon
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1 Peter
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1 John
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