Isaiah 59:5 BSB — MannaFest

Isaiah 59:5

They hatch the eggs of vipers and weave a spider’s web. Whoever eats their eggs will die; crack one open, and a viper is hatched.

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ASV

They hatch adders’ eggs, and weave the spider’s web: he that eateth of their eggs dieth; and that which is crushed breaketh out into a viper.

KJV

They hatch cockatrice’ eggs, and weave the spider’s web: he that eateth of their eggs dieth, and that which is crushed breaketh out into a viper.

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Commentary

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Jerome

Commentary on Isaiah (420)

(Verse 5, 6.) They conceived labor and gave birth to iniquity: they broke the eggs of vipers and wove spider webs. Whoever eats their eggs will die, and what is hatched will break out into a viper. Their webs will not be turned into clothing, nor will they be covered with their works. LXX: For they bring forth pain and generate iniquity. They broke the eggs of vipers and wove spider webs.

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The Nineteenth Century2 voices

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

They hatch cockatrice’ eggs - Margin, ‘Adders’.’ On the meaning of the word rendered here ‘cockatrice,’ see the notes at Isa 11:8. Some poisonous serpent is intended, probably the adder, or the serpent known among the Greeks as the basilisk, or cerastes. This figurative expression is designed to show the evil nature and tendency of their works. They were as if they should carefully nourish the eggs of a venomous serpent. Instead of crushing them with the foot and destroying them, they took pains to hatch them, and produce a venomous race of reptiles.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

Though the viper is viviparous (from which "vi-per" is derived), yet during gestation, the young are included in eggs, which break at the birth [BOCHART]; however, metaphors often combine things without representing everything to the life.

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Original language & word study

12 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
בֵּיצֵ֤י	bei.Tzei	eggs of	H1000 →
צִפְעוֹנִי֙	tzif.'o.Ni	a viper	H6848 →
בִּקֵּ֔עוּ	bi.Ke.'u	they have hatched	H1234 →
וְקוּרֵ֥י	ve.ku.Rei	and webs of	H6980 →
עַכָּבִ֖ישׁ	'a.ka.Vish	a spider	H5908 →
יֶאֱרֹ֑גוּ	ye.'e.Ro.gu	they weave	H707 →
הָאֹכֵ֤ל	ha.'o.Khel	the [one who] eats	H398 →
מִבֵּֽיצֵיהֶם֙	mi.bei.tzei.Hem	any of eggs their	H1000 →
יָמ֔וּת	ya.Mut	he will die	H4191 →
וְהַזּוּרֶ֖ה	ve.ha.zu.Reh	and the pressed [egg]	H2116 →
תִּבָּקַ֥ע	ti.ba.Ka'	it is hatched	H1234 →
אֶפְעֶֽה׃	'ef.'Eh	a snake	H660 →

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
Matthew 12:34
You brood of vipers, how can you who are evil say anything good? For out of the overflow of the heart, the mouth speaks.
leads to
- Luke 6:45
  The good man brings good things out of the good treasure of his heart, and the evil man brings evil things out of the evil treasure of his heart. For out of the overflow…
- Matthew 15:18
  But the things that come out of the mouth come from the heart, and these things defile a man.
- Ephesians 4:29
  Let no unwholesome talk come out of your mouths, but only what is helpful for building up the one in need and bringing grace to those who listen.
- James 3:5–8
  In the same way, the tongue is a small part of the body, but it boasts of great things. Consider how small a spark sets a great forest ablaze.
- 1 Samuel 24:13
  As the old proverb says, ‘Wickedness proceeds from the wicked.’ But my hand will never be against you.
Through
Matthew 3:7
But when John saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his place of baptism, he said to them, “You brood of vipers, who warned you to flee from the coming wrath?
leads to
- Matthew 12:34
  You brood of vipers, how can you who are evil say anything good? For out of the overflow of the heart, the mouth speaks.
- Matthew 22:23
  That same day the Sadducees, who say there is no resurrection, came to Jesus and questioned Him.
- Romans 5:9
  Therefore, since we have now been justified by His blood, how much more shall we be saved from wrath through Him!

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About Isaiah