Isaiah 5:24 BSB — MannaFest

Isaiah 5:24

Therefore, as a tongue of fire consumes the straw, and as 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.

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ASV

Therefore as the tongue of fire devoureth the stubble, and as the dry grass sinketh down in the flame, so their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust; because they have rejected the law of Jehovah of hosts, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.

KJV

Therefore as the fire devoureth the stubble, and the flame consumeth the chaff, so their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust: because they have cast away the law of the Lord of hosts, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.

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Commentary

1 voice

John Gill

1697–1771

Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)

Therefore as the fire devoureth the stubble,.... Or "tongue of fire" (h); meaning the flame, the same as in the next clause; because it is in the form of a tongue; see Act 2:3, and the flame consumeth the chaff; which is done easily, speedily, and entirely; the metaphors denote that their destruction would be easy, swift, sudden, irresistible, and irrecoverable.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament (1765)

Rottenness - They shall be like a tree which not only withers in its branches, but dies and rots at the roots, therefore is past recovery. Dust - Shall be resolved into dust, and yield no fruit.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

The flame “The tongue of fire” - “The flame, because it is in the shape of a tongue; and so it is called metaphorically.” Sal. ben Melec. The metaphor is so exceedingly obvious, as well as beautiful, that one may wonder that it has not been more frequently used. Virgil very elegantly intimates, rather than expresses, the image; - Ecce levis summo de vertice visus Iuli Fundere lumen apex; tactuque innoxia molli Lambere flamma comas, et circum tempora pasci. Aen.

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Original language & word study

25 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
לָכֵן֩	la.Khen	<to> therefore	H3651 →
כֶּאֱכֹ֨ל	ke.'e.Khol	as consumes	H398 →
קַ֜שׁ	kash	stubble	H7179 →
לְשׁ֣וֹן	le.Shon	a tongue of	H3956 →
אֵ֗שׁ	'Esh	fire	H784 →
וַחֲשַׁ֤שׁ	va.cha.Shash	and dry grass	H2842 →
לֶֽהָבָה֙	le.ha.Vah	a flame	H3852 →
יִרְפֶּ֔ה	yir.Peh	it sinks down	H7503 →
שָׁרְשָׁם֙	sha.re.Sham	root their	H8328 →
כַּמָּ֣ק	ka.Mak	like <the> rottenness	H4716 →
יִֽהְיֶ֔ה	yih.Yeh	it will be	H1961 →
וּפִרְחָ֖ם	u.fir.Cham	and blossom their	H6525 →
כָּאָבָ֣ק	ka.'a.Vak	like <the> dust	H80 →
יַעֲלֶ֑ה	ya.'a.Leh	it will go up	H5927 →
כִּ֣י	ki	for	H3588 →
מָאֲס֗וּ	ma.'a.Su	they have rejected	H3988 →
אֵ֚ת	'et	<obj.>	H853 →
תּוֹרַת֙	to.Rat	[the] law of	H8451 →
יְהוָ֣ה	Yah.weh	Yahweh	H3068 →
צְבָא֔וֹת	tze.va.'ot	of hosts	H6635 →
וְאֵ֛ת	ve.'Et	and <obj.>	H853 →
אִמְרַ֥ת	'im.Rat	[the] word of	H565 →
קְדֽוֹשׁ־	ke.do.osh-	[the] holy [one] of	H6918 →
יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל	Yis.ra.'El	Israel	H3478 →
נִאֵֽצוּ׃	ni.'E.tzu	they have spurned	H5006 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

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Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Luke 3:17
His winnowing fork is in His hand to clear His threshing floor and to gather the wheat into His barn; but He will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.”
leads to
- Matthew 3:12
  His winnowing fork is in His hand to clear His threshing floor and to gather His wheat into the barn; but He will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.”
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Matthew 13:30
  Let both grow together until the harvest. At that time I will tell the harvesters: First collect the weeds and tie them in bundles to be burned; then gather the wheat into my barn.’”
- Jeremiah 15:7
  I will scatter them with a winnowing fork at the gates of the land. I will bereave and destroy My people who have not turned from their ways.
- Micah 4:12
  But they do not know the thoughts of the LORD or understand His plan, for He has gathered them like sheaves to the threshing floor.
- Psalms 1:4
  Not so the wicked! For they are like chaff driven off by the wind.
Through
Isaiah 47:14
Surely they are like stubble; the fire will burn them up. They cannot deliver themselves from the power of the flame. There will be no coals to warm them or fire to sit beside.
leads to
- Malachi 4:1
  “For behold, the day is coming, burning like a furnace, when all the arrogant and every evildoer will be stubble; the day is coming when I will set them ablaze,” says the LORD of…
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
Through
Job 18:16
The roots beneath him dry up, and the branches above him wither away.
leads to
- Hosea 9:16
  Ephraim is struck down; their root is withered; they cannot bear fruit. Even if they bear children, I will slay the darlings of their wombs.
Through
Joel 2:5
With a sound like that of chariots they bound over the mountaintops, like the crackling of fire consuming stubble, like a mighty army deployed for battle.
leads to
- Revelation 9:9
  They also had thoraxes like breastplates of iron, and the sound of their wings was like the roar of many horses and chariots rushing into battle.

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