Ésaïe 5:28

28 Ses flèches sont aiguës; tous ses arcs sont tendus; le sabot de ses chevaux ressemble au caillou, et ses roues à l'ouragan.

Ésaïe 5:28 Meaning and Commentary

Isaiah 5:28

Whose arrows [are] sharp, and all their bows bent
Ready to shoot their arrows upon any occasion; and which being sharp, penetrated deep, and were deadly. This includes all kind of warlike instruments, with which they should come furnished, and ready prepared to do execution: their horses' hoofs shall be counted like flint;
by those who rode upon them; who knowing how strong and firm they were, and that they were not worn out, nor hurt by the length of the way they came, would not spare to make haste upon them: and their wheels like a whirlwind;
that is, the wheels of their chariots, they used in battle, as Aben Ezra, Jarchi, and Kimchi, interpret it; and so the Septuagint and Arabic versions render it: this metaphor denotes both the swiftness with which they should come, and the noise and rattling they should make, and the power and force in bearing down all before them. The Targum is,

``and his wheels swift as a tempest.''

Ésaïe 5:28 In-Context

26 Il élève une bannière vers les peuples éloignés; il siffle pour en appeler un du bout de la terre; et voici, rapide et prompt, il arrive.

27 Nul n'est fatigué, nul ne chancelle; nul ne sommeille ni ne dort; nul n'a la ceinture de ses reins déliée, ni la courroie de ses souliers rompue.

28 Ses flèches sont aiguës; tous ses arcs sont tendus; le sabot de ses chevaux ressemble au caillou, et ses roues à l'ouragan.

29 Il a le rugissement de la lionne; il rugit comme les lionceaux; il gronde, et saisit la proie; il l'emporte, et nul ne la sauve.

30 En ce jour-là, il grondera contre Juda, comme gronde la mer. Qu'on regarde vers la terre: voici les ténèbres et l'angoisse; la lumière est obscurcie par les nuées.