Isaia 5:25

25 Per questo avvampa l’ira dell’Eterno contro il suo popolo; ed egli stende contr’esso la sua mano, e lo colpisce; tremano i monti, e i cadaveri son come spazzatura in mezzo alle vie; e, con tutto ciò, l’ira sua non si calma, e la sua mano rimase distesa.

Isaia 5:25 Meaning and Commentary

Isaiah 5:25

Therefore is the anger of the Lord kindled against his
people
His professing people; which character, as it aggravated their sin in rejecting and despising the word of the Lord, so it increased his anger and indignation against them: and he hath stretched forth his hand against them, and hath smitten
them;
which some understand of past judgments and afflictions upon them, under Joash, Amaziah, and Ahaz; and others of future ones, under Shalmaneser and Nebuchadnezzar: and the hills did tremble;
which Jarchi interprets of their kings and princes; or it may be only a figurative expression, setting forth the awfulness of the dispensation: and their carcasses [were] torn in the midst of the streets.
The Targum renders it, "were as dung"; so the Septuagint, Vulgate Latin, and Arabic versions; being slain there, and lying unburied, were trampled upon, and trodden down like "clay", as the Syriac version; or like the mire of the streets. For all this his anger is not turned away;
this being abundantly less than their sins deserved; which shows how great were their sins, and how much the Lord was provoked to anger by them: but his hand [is] stretched out still;
to inflict yet sorer judgments. The Targum is

``by all this they turn not from their sins, that his fury may turn from them; but their rebellion grows stronger, and his stroke is again to take vengeance on them;''

which expresses their impenitence and hardness of heart, under the judgments of God, which caused him to take more severe methods with them.

Isaia 5:25 In-Context

23 che assolvono il malvagio per un regalo, e privano il giusto del suo diritto!

24 Perciò, come una lingua di fuoco divora la stoppia e come la fiamma consuma l’erba secca, così la loro radice sarà come marciume, e il loro fiore sarà portato via come polvere, perché hanno rigettata la legge dell’Eterno degli eserciti, e hanno sprezzata la parola del Santo d’Israele.

25 Per questo avvampa l’ira dell’Eterno contro il suo popolo; ed egli stende contr’esso la sua mano, e lo colpisce; tremano i monti, e i cadaveri son come spazzatura in mezzo alle vie; e, con tutto ciò, l’ira sua non si calma, e la sua mano rimase distesa.

26 Egli alza un vessillo per le nazioni lontane; fischia ad un popolo, ch’è all’estremità della terra; ed eccolo che arriva, pronto, leggero.

27 In esso nessuno è stanco o vacilla, nessuno sonnecchia o dorme; a nessuno si scoglie la cintura de’ fianchi o si rompe il legaccio dei calzari.