Isaiah 5:29

The Holy Bible, Berean Study Bible

Contextual Overview

¹⁸Woe to those who draw iniquity with cords of deceit and pull sin along with cart ropes, ¹⁹to those who say, "Let Him hurry and hasten His work so that we may see it! Let the plan of the Holy One of Israel come so that we may know it!" ²⁰Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who turn darkness to light and light to darkness, who replace bitter with sweet and sweet with bitter. ²¹Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes and clever in their own sight. ²²Woe to those who are heroes in drinking wine, and champions in mixing beer, ²³who acquit the guilty for a bribe, and deprive the innocent of justice. ²⁴Therefore, as a tongue of fire consumes straw and dry grass shrivels in the flame, so their roots will decay and their blossoms will blow away like dust; for they have rejected the instruction of the LORD of Hosts and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel. ²⁵Therefore the LORD's anger burns against His people; He has raised His hand against them and struck them; the mountains quaked, and their corpses lay like refuse in the streets. Yet through all this, His anger is not spent, and His hand is still upraised. ²⁶He lifts a banner for the distant nations and whistles for those at the ends of the earth. Behold-how speedily and swiftly they come! ²⁷None of them grows weary or stumbles; no one slumbers or sleeps. No belt is loose and no sandal strap is broken.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

roaring: Isaiah 31:4, Genesis 49:9, Numbers 24:9, Jeremiah 4:7, Jeremiah 49:19, Jeremiah 50:17, Hosea 11:10, Amos 3:8, Zechariah 11:3

lay hold: Isaiah 42:22, Isaiah 49:24, Isaiah 49:25, Psalms 50:22, Micah 5:8

Reciprocal: Isaiah 15:7 - the abundance Isaiah 21:8 - General Jeremiah 2:15 - young lions Ezekiel 19:2 - young lions Daniel 7:4 - like Hosea 5:14 - none Hosea 13:8 - wild beast Nahum 2:11 - the dwelling 1 Peter 5:8 - as Revelation 9:17 - as the Revelation 10:3 - loud Revelation 13:2 - and his mouth

Cross-References

Genesis 5:8
So Seth lived a total of 912 years, and then he died.

Genesis 5:9
When Enosh was 90 years old, he became the father of Kenan.

Genesis 5:11
So Enosh lived a total of 905 years, and then he died.

Genesis 5:12
When Kenan was 70 years old, he became the father of Mahalaleel.

Genesis 5:17
So Mahalaleel lived a total of 895 years, and then he died.

Genesis 5:19
And after he had become the father of Enoch, Jared lived 800 years and had other sons and daughters.

Genesis 5:26
And after he had become the father of Lamech, Methuselah lived 782 years and had other sons and daughters.

Genesis 5:27
So Methuselah lived a total of 969 years, and then he died.

Genesis 7:23
And every living thing on the face of the earth was destroyed-man and livestock, crawling creatures and birds of the air; they were blotted out from the earth, and only Noah remained, and those with him in the ark.

Genesis 9:24
When Noah awoke from his drunkenness and learned what his youngest son had done to him,

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Their roaring [shall be] like a lion,.... When engaged in war, just seizing on their prey. The phrase denotes their fierceness and cruelty, and the horror they should inject into the hearts of their enemies:

they shall roar like young lions; that are hungry, and almost famished, and in sight of their prey; see Job 4:10:

yea, they shall roar, and lay hold of the prey; seize it with great noise and greediness:

and shall carry [it] away safe; into their own den, the country from whence they come:

and none shall deliver [it]; this shows that respect is had; not to the Babylonish captivity, from whence there was a deliverance in a few years; but the Roman captivity, from thence there is no deliverance as yet to this day.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Their roaring ... - Their battle cry, or their shout as they enter into an engagement. Such a “shout,” or cry, was common at the commencement of a battle. War was very much a personal conflict; and they expected to accomplish much by making it as frightful and terrible as possible. A shout served not only to excite their own spirits, but to produce an impression of their numbers and courage, and to send dismay into the opposite ranks. Such “shouts” are almost always mentioned by Homer, and by other writers, in their accounts of battles. They are often mentioned, also, in the Old Testament; Exodus 32:18; Joshua 6:10, Joshua 6:16, Joshua 6:20; Jeremiah 50:15; 1 Samuel 17:20, 1Sa 17:52; 2 Chronicles 13:15; Job 39:25.

Like a lion - This comparison is common in the Bible; Jeremiah 51:38; Hosea 11:10; Amos 3:4; compare Numbers 23:24.

Like young lions - This variation of the expression, from the lion to the young lion, is very common. It is the Hebrew form of poetry, where the second member expresses little more than the first. Here the description is that of a lion, or more probably a “lioness” and her whelps, all ravenous, and all uniting in roaring for prey. The idea is, that the army that would come up would be greedy of plunder; they would rush on to rapine in a frightful manner.