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Isaiah 5:6

Isaiah 5:6

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public Domain

I will lay it waste; literally, I will make it a desolation (comp. , where a cognate term occurs). Active ravage is not so much pointed at, as the desolation which comes from neglect. There shall come up briers and thorns.

The natural produce of neglected ground in Palestine (see ). The "thorns and briers" symbolize vices of various kinds, the natural produce of the human soul, if God leaves it to itself.

The words are scarcely to be taken literally, though it is probably true that "no country in the world has such variety and abundance of thorny plants as Palestine in its present desolation". I will also command the clouds.

Here at last disguise is thrown off, and the speaker manifestly appears as Jehovah, who can alone "command the clouds." The "rain" intended is probably that of his gracious influences.

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