Isaiah 32:5 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁵The vile person shall be no more called liberal, nor the churl said to be bountiful.

Isaiah 32:5 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Isaiah 5:20
Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!
Psalms 15:4
In whose eyes a vile person is contemned; but he honoureth them that fear the LORD. He that sweareth to his own hurt, and changeth not.
Malachi 3:18
Then shall ye return, and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him that serveth God and him that serveth him not.
1 Samuel 25:25
Let not my lord, I pray thee, regard this man of Belial, even Nabal: for as his name is, so is he; Nabal is his name, and folly is with him: but I thine handmaid saw not the young men of my lord, whom thou didst send.
Proverbs 23:6-8
Eat thou not the bread of him that hath an evil eye, neither desire thou his dainty meats: …

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-8)

We have here the description of a flourishing kingdom. “ Blessed art thou, O land! when it is thus with thee, when kings, princes, and people, are in their places such as they should be.” It may be taken as a directory both to magistrates and subjects, what both ought to do, or as a panegyric to Hezekiah, who ruled well and saw something of the happy effects of his good government, and it was desi…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 5)

5. vile--rather, “fool” [Lowth]; that is, ungodly (Psa 14:1; 74:18). liberal--rather, “noble-minded.” churl--rather, “fraudulent” [Gesenius]. bountiful--religiously. The atheistic churl, who envies the believer his hope “full of immortality,” shall no longer be held as a patriot struggling for the emancipation of mankind from superstition [Horsley].