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Isaiah 59:5 KJV
Isaiah · chapter 59 · verse 5
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.Isaiah 59:5 · King James Version
Isaiah 59:5 in context
3For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue hath muttered perverseness.
4None calleth for justice, nor any pleadeth for truth: they trust in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity.
5They 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.
6Their webs shall not become garments, neither shall they cover themselves with their works: their works are works of iniquity, and the act of violence is in their hands.
7Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood: their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; wasting and destruction are in their paths.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- cockatrice'tsephaʻa viper (as thrusting out the tongueH6848 →
- spider'sʻakkâbîysha spiderH5908 →
- crushedzûwrehtrodden onH2116 →
- eatethʼâkalto eatH398 →
- hatchbâqaʻto cleaveH1234 →
- weaveʼâragto plait or weaveH707 →
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The prophet here rectifies the mistake of those who had been quarrelling with God because they had not the deliverances wrought for them which they had been often fasting and praying for, Isa 58:3. Now here he shows, I. That it was not owing to God.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 1-8