Isaiah 5:13

Isaiah 5:13 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)Therefore my people are gone into captivity, because they have no knowledge: and their honourable men are famished, and their multitude dried up with thirst.
• New International Version (NIV)Therefore my people will go into exile for lack of understanding; those of high rank will die of hunger and the common people will be parched with thirst.
• English Standard Version (ESV)Therefore my people go into exile for lack of knowledge; their honored men go hungry, and their multitude is parched with thirst.
• New Living Translation (NLT)So my people will go into exile far away because they do not know me. Those who are great and honored will starve, and the common people will die of thirst.

Context of Isaiah 5:13

11Woe to those who rise early in the morning, That they may follow intoxicating drink; Who continue until night, till wine inflames them! 12The harp and the strings, The tambourine and flute, And wine are in their feasts; But they do not regard the work of the Lord, Nor consider the operation of His hands. Therefore my people have gone into captivity, Because they have no knowledge; Their honorable men are famished, And their multitude dried up with thirst. 14Therefore Sheol has enlarged itself And opened its mouth beyond measure; Their glory and their multitude and their pomp, And he who is jubilant, shall descend into it. 15People shall be brought down, Each man shall be humbled, And the eyes of the lofty shall be humbled.

Isaiah 5:13 word by word

לָכֵ֛ן גָּלָ֥ה עַמִּ֖י מִבְּלִי־דָ֑עַת וּכְבוֹדוֹ֙ מְתֵ֣י רָעָ֔ב וַהֲמוֹנ֖וֹ צִחֵ֥ה צָמָֽא׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• Therefore my peopleעַם‛am · peopleH5971
• are gone into captivityגָּלָהgâlâh · to reveal: removeH1540
• no knowledgeדַּ֫עַתda‛ath · knowledgeH1847
• and their honourableכָּבוֹדkâbôd kâbôd · gloryH3519
• menמַתmath · manH4962
• famishedרָעָבrâ‛âb · famineH7458
• and their multitudeהָמוֹןhâmôn hâmôn · crowdH1995
• dried upצִחֶהtsicheh · parchedH6704
• with thirstצָמָאtsâmâ' · thirstH6772

Cross-references for Isaiah 5:13

• Isaiah 1:7Your country is desolate, Your cities are burned with fire; Strangers devour your land in your presence; And it is desolate, as overthrown by strangers.
• Isaiah 42:22But this is a people robbed and plundered; All of them are snared in holes, And they are hidden in prison houses; They are for prey, and no one delivers; For plunder, and no one says, “Restore!”
• 2 Kings 17:6In the ninth year of Hoshea, the king of Assyria took Samaria and carried Israel away to Assyria, and placed them in Halah and by the Habor, the River of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes.
• 2 Chronicles 28:5Therefore the Lord his God delivered him into the hand of the king of Syria. They defeated him, and carried away a great multitude of them as captives, and brought them to Damascus. Then he was also delivered into the hand of the king of Israel, who defeated him with a great slaughter.
• Isaiah 1:3The ox knows its owner And the donkey its master’s crib; But Israel does not know, My people do not consider.”
• Isaiah 27:11When its boughs are withered, they will be broken off; The women come and set them on fire. For it is a people of no understanding; Therefore He who made them will not have mercy on them, And He who formed them will show them no favor.
• Jeremiah 8:7“Even the stork in the heavens Knows her appointed times; And the turtledove, the swift, and the swallow Observe the time of their coming. But My people do not know the judgment of the Lord.
• Hosea 4:6My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I also will reject you from being priest for Me; Because you have forgotten the law of your God, I also will forget your children.
• Matthew 23:16“Woe to you, blind guides, who say, ‘Whoever swears by the temple, it is nothing; but whoever swears by the gold of the temple, he is obliged to perform it.’
• Luke 19:44and level you, and your children within you, to the ground; and they will not leave in you one stone upon another, because you did not know the time of your visitation.”
• John 3:19And this is the condemnation, that the light has come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.
• Romans 1:28And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a debased mind, to do those things which are not fitting;
• 2 Peter 3:5For this they willfully forget: that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of water and in the water,
• Jeremiah 14:18If I go out to the field, Then behold, those slain with the sword! And if I enter the city, Then behold, those sick from famine! Yes, both prophet and priest go about in a land they do not know.’ ”
• Lamentations 4:4The tongue of the infant clings To the roof of its mouth for thirst; The young children ask for bread, But no one breaks it for them.
• Jeremiah 14:3Their nobles have sent their lads for water; They went to the cisterns and found no water. They returned with their vessels empty; They were ashamed and confounded And covered their heads.

Commentaries on Isaiah 5:13

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 13And their honorable men "And the nobles" - These verses have likewise a reference to the two preceding. They that indulged in feasting and drinking shall perish with hunger and thirst; and Hades shall indulge his appetite as much as they had done, and devour them all. The image is strong and expressive in the highest degree. Habakkuk 2:5, uses the same image with great force: - the ambitious and avaricious conqueror. "Enlargeth his appetite like Hades…Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 13Therefore my people are gone - This is evidently used with reference to the “future.” The prophet described events as “passing before his eyes” as a vision (note, Isaiah 1:1); and he here seems to “see” the people going into captivity, and describes it as an event actually occurring. Into captivity - Referring, doubtless, to the captivity at Babylon. Because they have no knowledge - Because they do not choose to retain the knowledge of God. And their…Read the comment
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 8-23Verses 8-23 Here is a woe to those who set their hearts on the wealth of the world. Not that it is sinful for those who have a house and a field to purchase another; but the fault is, that they never know when they have enough. Covetousness is idolatry; and while many envy the prosperous, wretched man, the Lord denounces awful woes upon him. How applicable to many among us! God has many ways to empty the most populous cities. Those who set their hearts…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 13Israel and Judah would go into exile to Assyria in 722 BC and to Babylon in 586 BC. The people did not respond to the Lord because they did not truly know him (see Isaiah 1:3). They likely knew about him, but their behavior showed that they did not have a close relationship with him.Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1313. are gone--The prophet sees the future as if it were before his eyes. no knowledge--because of their foolish recklessness (Is 5:12; Is 1:3; Ho 4:6; Lu 19:44). famished--awful contrast to their luxurious feasts (Is 5:11, 12). multitude--plebeians in contradistinction to the "honorable men," or nobles. thirst--(Psa 107:4, 5). Contrast to their drinking (Is 5:11). In their deportation and exile, they shall hunger and thirst.Read the comment

Topics related to Isaiah 5:13

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Commentaries on Isaiah 5

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings