Isaiæ 5:28

Nova Vulgata

incrassati sunt et impinguati: et transgressi sunt terminos mali. Causam non iudicaverunt, causam pupilli, ut ipsi prospere agant, et iudicium pauperum non iudicaverunt.

Parallel Translations

Clementine Latin Vulgate (1592)
Sagitt� ejus acut�, et omnes arcus ejus extenti. Ungul� equorum ejus ut silex, et rot� ejus quasi impetus tempestatis.

Jerome's Latin Vulgate (405)
Incrassati sunt et impinguati,
et pr�terierunt sermones meos pessime.
Causam vidu� non judicaverunt,
causam pupilli non direxerunt,
et judicium pauperum non judicaverunt.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

waxen: Deuteronomy 32:15, Job 15:27, Job 15:28, Job 21:23, Job 21:24, Psalms 73:6, Psalms 73:7, Psalms 73:12, Psalms 119:70, Amos 4:1, James 5:4, James 5:5

overpass: Jeremiah 2:33, Ezekiel 5:6, Ezekiel 5:7, Ezekiel 16:47-52, 1 Corinthians 5:1

judge: Jeremiah 22:15-19, Job 29:12-14, Psalms 72:4, Psalms 82:2-4, Isaiah 1:23, Zechariah 7:10

yet: Jeremiah 12:1, Job 12:6, Psalms 73:12

Reciprocal: Exodus 23:6 - General Deuteronomy 1:17 - ye shall hear Deuteronomy 16:19 - wrest Deuteronomy 24:17 - pervert Deuteronomy 31:20 - waxen fat Judges 3:17 - a very fat 1 Kings 8:45 - cause 2 Chronicles 6:35 - cause Nehemiah 9:25 - did eat Job 31:21 - lifted Psalms 68:5 - a judge Psalms 76:9 - When Psalms 82:3 - do Proverbs 29:7 - but Proverbs 29:14 - king Proverbs 31:9 - General Isaiah 2:7 - land Isaiah 5:17 - the waste Isaiah 11:4 - reprove Isaiah 59:14 - General Jeremiah 17:11 - he that Jeremiah 21:12 - Execute Jeremiah 22:3 - Execute Jeremiah 22:16 - judged Jeremiah 50:11 - fat Ezekiel 21:24 - your transgressions Micah 3:9 - that Luke 18:3 - a widow Romans 13:4 - he is 1 Timothy 6:10 - the love

Gill's Notes on the Bible

They are waxen fat, they shine,.... Becoming rich they grew fat, and their faces shone through fatness; so oil, delicious food, and good living, as it fattens men, it makes their faces to shine; see

Psalms 104:15,

yea, they overpass the deeds of the wicked; though they pretended to religion, the fear and worship of God, yet they committed crimes more heinous than the most abandoned and profligate sinners: or, "they exceed the words of the wicked" f; either they speak words more wicked than they; or do such actions as are not to be expressed by words, and which even a wicked man would hardly choose to name. The Targum is,

"they transgress the words of the law;''

and the Vulgate Latin version comes pretty near it, "they have passed over my words very badly"; as if they referred to the words of the law and the prophets:

they judge not the cause, the cause of the fatherless; this shows that it was not the common people only that were become so wicked, but the judges and civil magistrates; and who were so far from doing justice between man and man, in all civil cases that came before them, that they would not even exercise right judgment in the case of the fatherless; who not only require justice to be done them, but mercy and pity to be shown them:

yet they prosper; in the world, and increase in riches; have health of body and prosperity in their families; nor are they in trouble, as other men: this sometimes has been trying to good men to observe; see

Psalms 73:3 and particularly to the Prophet Jeremiah, Jeremiah 12:1: or, "that they may prosper" g; as Jarchi interprets it; and to the same sense is the Targum,

"if they had judged the judgment of the fatherless they would have prospered;''

but the former sense is best; and which Kimchi gives into, and agrees with what goes before, concerning the riches and prosperous estate of those men:

and the right of the needy do they not judge: because they are poor, and can not fee them, they will not undertake their cause; or, if it comes before them, they will not do them justice, being bribed by the rich that oppose them.

f עברו דברי רע "transcendunt verba mali", Schmidt; "transierunt verba mali", Cocceius. g ויצליחו "ut prosperentur", Gataker.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Against the God

(1) of Creation Jeremiah 5:22, and

(2) of Providence Jeremiah 5:24,

They sin, not merely by apostasy, but by a general immorality extending to all classes Jeremiah 5:25-28. It is in this immorality that their idolatry has its root.

Jeremiah 5:22

The sea is the symbol of restless and indomitable energy, chafing against all resistance, and dashing to pieces the works whereby man endeavors to restrain its fury. Yet God has imposed upon it laws which it must obey, and keeps it in its appointed place, not by barriers of iron but by a belt of sand. Modern science has shown that the resisting power of sand is enormous. A wave which would shatter rocks fails powerless upon sand.

Can they not prevail - The opposite of “thou couldest” Jeremiah 3:5. The sea, the mightiest of God’s works, cannot prevail, cannot break God’s laws, because He has not endowed it with free-will. Man, physically impotent, can prevail, because, being made in God’s image, he is free.

Jeremiah 5:23

The heart, or will of the Jews was first “revolting,” literally a will that “drew back” from God, because it disliked His service; and secondly it was “rebellious,” a will that actively resisted Him. Compare Deuteronomy 21:18, Deuteronomy 21:20.

Jeremiah 5:24

As God’s Providence addresses itself chiefly to the thoughtful, Jeremiah says in their heart. By the intelligent study of God’s dealings men perceive that they are not merely acts of power but also of love.

The appointed weeks - literally, He guardeth, maintaineth, for us the weeks which are the statutes or settled laws “of the harvest.” These were the seven weeks from the Passover to Pentecost, and were as important for the ingathering of the crops as the rainy seasons for their nourishment.

Jeremiah 5:25

It was not that the rains did not fall, or that the harvest weeks were less bright; the good was there, but the wickedness of the community blocked up the channels, through which it shou d have reached the people. The lawlessness and injustice of the times kept the mass of the people in poverty.

Jeremiah 5:26

Rather, he spieth about like the crouching down of fowlers; they have set the fatal snare; “they catch men.”

Trap - literally, “The destroyer;” it was probably a gin, which strangled the birds caught in it.

Jeremiah 5:27

Deceit - The wealth gained by deceit and fraud.

Jeremiah 5:28

Fatness is admired in the East as a sign of wealth.

They shine - This word is used of the sleekness of the skin, soft and smooth as ivory.

They overpass the deeds of the wicked - literally, “They have overpassed words of wickedness,” i. e., they go to excess in wickedness.

Yet they prosper - Or, that they (the orphans) may prosper, enjoy their rights.

Jeremiah 5:30

Rather, A terrible “and horrible thing” has happened “in the land.”

Jeremiah 5:31

Bear rule by their means - Rather, “The priests” rule at their hands, i. e., govern according to their false prophecies, guidance, and directions.

My people love to have it so - False teaching lightens the yoke of God’s Law, and removes His fear from the conscience: and with this, man is ready to be content.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Jeremiah 5:28. They judge not the cause, yet they prosper — Perhaps we might be justified in translating, "And shall they prosper?"