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Selected Verse: Isaiah 5:18 - Strong Concordance

Verse         Translation Text
Isa 5:18 Strong Concordance Woe [01945] unto them that draw [04900] iniquity [05771] with cords [02256] of vanity [07723], and sin [02403] as it were with a cart [05699] rope [05688]:
  King James Woe unto them that draw iniquity with cords of vanity, and sin as it were with a cart rope:

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A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]
Third Woe--against obstinate perseverance in sin, as if they wished to provoke divine judgments.

iniquity--guilt, incurring punishment [MAURER].

cords, &c.--cart-rope--Rabbins say, "An evil inclination is at first like a fine hair-string, but the finishing like a cart-rope." The antithesis is between the slender cords of sophistry, like the spider's web (Isa 59:5; Job 8:14), with which one sin draws on another, until they at last bind themselves with great guilt as with a cart-rope. They strain every nerve in sin.

vanity--wickedness.

sin--substantive, not a verb: they draw on themselves "sin" and its penalty recklessly.
 
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14 Whose hope [03689] shall be cut off [06990], and whose trust [04009] shall be a spider's [05908] web [01004].
5 They hatch [01234] cockatrice [06848]' eggs [01000], and weave [0707] the spider's [05908] web [06980]: he that eateth [0398] of their eggs [01000] dieth [04191], and that which is crushed [02116] breaketh out [01234] into a viper [0660].
31 Let not him that is deceived [08582] trust [0539] in vanity [07723]: for vanity [07723] shall be his recompence [08545].
4 I have not sat [03427] with vain [07723] persons [04962], neither will I go in [0935] with dissemblers [05956].
14 Be ye [1096] not [3361] unequally yoked together [2086] with unbelievers [571]: for [1063] what [5101] fellowship [3352] hath righteousness [1343] with [2532] unrighteousness [458]? and [1161] what [5101] communion [2842] hath light [5457] with [4314] darkness [4655]?
3 And it shall be, that the city [05892] which is next [07138] unto the slain man [02491], even the elders [02205] of that city [05892] shall take [03947] an heifer [01241] [05697], which hath not been wrought with [05647], and which hath not drawn [04900] in the yoke [05923];
4 I drew [04900] them with cords [02256] of a man [0120], with bands [05688] of love [0160]: and I was to them as they that take off [07311] the yoke [05923] on their jaws [03895], and I laid [05186] meat [0398] unto them.
24 He taketh [03947] it with his eyes [05869]: his nose [0639] pierceth through [05344] snares [04170].
23 Either a bullock [07794] or a lamb [07716] that hath any thing superfluous [08311] or lacking in his parts [07038], that mayest thou offer [06213] for a freewill offering [05071]; but for a vow [05088] it shall not be accepted [07521].
18 For whatsoever man [0376] he be that hath a blemish [03971], he shall not approach [07126]: a blind [05787] man [0376], or a lame [06455], or he that hath a flat nose [02763], or any thing superfluous [08311],