Isaiah 5:29
in Isaiah 5Their roaring is like that of a lion; they roar like young lions. They growl and seize their prey; they carry it away from deliverance.
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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
their roaring shall be like a lioness, they shall roar like young lions; yea, they shall roar, and lay hold of the prey, and carry it away safe, and there shall be none to deliver.
KJV
Their roaring shall be like a lion, they shall roar like young lions: yea, they shall roar, and lay hold of the prey, and shall carry it away safe, and none shall deliver it.
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This verse in Isaiah 5
Commentary
7 notes on this verse201. Their roaring. Here he shows that they are cruel for punishing. And first, as to their vehemence: roaring: they shall walk after the Lord, he shall roar as a lion: because he shall roar, and the children of the sea shall fear (Hos 11:10). …
This site's exposition
He lifts a banner for
on Isaiah 5:26-30
The chapter names the instrument of judgment without naming a nation, a banner lifted for "the distant nations." The older commentators read the sharpened arrows as the Assyrian army, named only in later chapters. The chapter that opened with a love song for a vineyard ends in "darkness and distress."
This site's exposition
Their roaring is like that of a lion
Barnes hears the battle cry an army raised as it closed with its enemy. A lion that seizes its prey and carries it off leaves nothing to rescue. Verse 30 turns the roar into the roaring of the sea.
The record, by era
The Church Fathers1 voice
His arrows are sharp, and all his bows are drawn tight. The hooves of his horses are like flint, and his chariot wheels are like a whirlwind. His roar is like that of a lion, he will roar like a lion's cubs. He will growl, and seize his prey, and embrace it, and no one will rescue it. The multitude of archers, the troops of horsemen, the fervor of chariots and quadrigas, is compared to the roar of a lion, which came not so much to fight as to plunder and devour.
The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices
7 For the vineyard of the L ORD of hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasant plant: and he looked for judgment, but behold oppression; for righteousness, but behold a cry. See what variety of methods the great God takes to awaken sinners to repentance by convincing them of sin, and showing them their misery and danger by reason of it.
quarantine:scripture (2026-07-29) — verbatim-run:29w-of-66
Their roaring shall be like a lion,.... When engaged in war, just seizing on their prey.
The Nineteenth Century1 voice
A commentator
Albert Barnes1798–1870
Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)
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.
The words behind it
11 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| שְׁאָגָ֥ה | sheagah | roaring | H7581 → | |
| ל֖וֹ | lo | of it | ||
| כַּלָּבִ֑יא | kalavi' | [is] like <the> lion | H3833 → | |
| יִשְׁאַ֨ג | yishaag | it will roar | H7580 → | |
| כַּכְּפִירִ֤ים | kakefirim | like <the> young lions | H3715 → | 32 times |
| וְיִנְהֹם֙ | veyinhom | so it may growl | H5098 → | |
| וְיֹאחֵ֣ז | veyochez | and it may seize | H270 → | 67 times |
| טֶ֔רֶף | teref | prey | H2964 → | |
| וְיַפְלִ֖יט | veyaflit | so it may carry [it] off | H6403 → | |
| וְאֵ֥ין | veein | and there not | H369 → | 789 times |
| מַצִּֽיל׃ | matzil | [is] a deliverer | H5337 → | 212 times |
שְׁאָגָ֥הroaring
sheagahH7581 →
ל֖וֹof it
lo
כַּלָּבִ֑יא[is] like <the> lion
kalavi'H3833 →
יִשְׁאַ֨גit will roar
yishaagH7580 →
כַּכְּפִירִ֤יםlike <the> young lions
kakefirimH3715 →32 times
וְיִנְהֹם֙so it may growl
veyinhomH5098 →
וְיֹאחֵ֣זand it may seize
veyochezH270 →67 times
טֶ֔רֶףprey
terefH2964 →
וְיַפְלִ֖יטso it may carry [it] off
veyaflitH6403 →
וְאֵ֥יןand there not
veeinH369 →789 times
מַצִּֽיל׃[is] a deliverer
matzilH5337 →212 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
Numbers 24:9He crouches, he lies down like a lion; like a lioness, who dares to rouse him? Blessed are those who bless you and cursed are those who curse you.”
it leads to
- Genesis 12:3
I will bless those who bless you and curse those who curse you; and all the families of the earth will be blessed through you.”
- Genesis 27:29
May peoples serve you and nations bow down to you. May you be the master of your brothers, and may the sons of your mother bow down to you. May those who curse you…
- Genesis 49:9
Judah is a young lion—my son, you return from the prey. Like a lion he crouches and lies down; like a lioness, who dares to rouse him?
- Genesis 12:3
Through
Isaiah 42:22But this is a people plundered and looted, all trapped in caves or imprisoned in dungeons. They have become plunder with no one to rescue them, and loot with no one to say, “Send…
it leads to
- Psalms 50:22
Now consider this, you who forget God, lest I tear you to pieces, with no one to rescue you:
Reached by 2 separate paths from here.
- Psalms 102:20
to hear a prisoner’s groaning, to release those condemned to death,
- Jeremiah 50:17
Israel is a scattered flock, chased away by lions. The first to devour him was the king of Assyria; the last to crush his bones was Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon.”
- Isaiah 51:23
I will place it in the hands of your tormentors, who told you: ‘Lie down, so we can walk over you,’ so that you made your back like the ground, like a street to…
- Isaiah 24:22
They will be gathered together like prisoners in a pit. They will be confined to a dungeon and punished after many days.
- Psalms 50:22
Where this verse is studied
About Isaiah
This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Franz Delitzsch, Biblical Commentary on the Prophecies of Isaiah; Jerome, Commentary on Isaiah; John Calvin, Commentary on the Book of the Prophet Isaiah; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible and Thomas Aquinas, Commentary on Isaiah.