Isaiah 5 · Verse 27

Isaiah 5:27

None shall be weary nor stumble among them; none shall slumber nor sleep; neither shall the girdle of their loins be loosed, nor the latchet of their shoes be broken:
Isaiah 5:27, King James Version

Isaiah 5:27 in other translations

BSBNone of them grows weary or stumbles; no one slumbers or sleeps. No belt is loose and no sandal strap is broken.
WEBNo one shall be weary nor stumble among them; no one shall slumber nor sleep, neither shall the belt of their waist be untied, nor the strap of their sandals be broken,
ASVNone shall be weary nor stumble among them; none shall slumber nor sleep; neither shall the girdle of their loins be loosed, nor the latchet of their shoes be broken:
YLTThere is none weary, nor stumbling in it, It doth not slumber, nor sleep, Nor opened hath been the girdle of its loins, Nor drawn away the latchet of its sandals.
DARBYNone among them is weary, none stumbleth; they slumber not, nor sleep; none hath the girdle of his loins loosed, nor the thong of his sandals broken;
BBEThere is no weariness among them, and no man is feeble-footed: they come without resting or sleeping, and the cord of their shoes is not broken.
WebsterNone shall be weary nor stumble among them; none shall slumber nor sleep; neither shall the girdle of their loins be loosed, nor the latchet of their shoes be broken:

What does Isaiah 5:27 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
27. weary--with long marches (De 25:18). none ... slumber--requiring no rest. girdle--with which the ancient loose robes used to be girded for action. Ever ready for march or battle. nor the latchet ... broken--The soles were attached to the feet, not by upper leather as with us, but by straps. So securely clad that not even a strap of their sandals gives way, so as to impede their march.

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 27 None - among them - Kimchi has well illustrated this continued exaggeration or hyperbole, as he rightly calls it, to the following effect: "Through the greatness of their courage they shall not be fatigued with their march, nor shall they stumble though they march with the utmost speed: they shall not slumber by day, nor sleep by night; neither shall they ungird their armor, or put off their sandals to take their rest. Their arms shall be always in readiness, their arrows sharpened, and their bows bent. The hoofs of their horses are hard as a rock. They shall not fail, or need to be shod with iron: the wheels of their carriages shall move as rapidly as a whirlwind." Neither shall the girdle - The Eastern people, wearing long and loose garments, were unfit for action or business of any kind, without girding their clothes about them. When their business was finished they took off their girdles. A girdle therefore denotes strength and activity; and to unloose the girdle is to deprive of strength, to render unfit for action. God promises to unloose the loins of kings before Cyrus, Isa 45:1. The girdle is so essential a part of a soldier's accoutrements, being the last that he puts on to make himself ready for action, that to be girded, ζωννυσθαι, with the Greeks means to be completely armed and ready for battle: - Ατρειδης δ εβοησεν, ιδε ζωννυσθαι ανωγεν Αργειους. Iliad, 11:15. Το δε ενδυναι τα ὁπλα εκαλουν οἱ παλαιοι ζωννυσθαι. Pausan. Boeot. It is used in the same manner by the Hebrews: "Let not him that girdeth himself boast as he that unlooseth his girdle," 1Kgs 20:11; that is, triumph not before the war is finished.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Isaiah 5:24-30

Let not any expect to live easily who live wickedly. Sin weakens the strength, the root of a people; it defaces the beauty, the blossoms of a people. When God's word is despised, and his law cast away, what can men expect but that God should utterly abandon them? When God comes forth in wrath, the hills tremble, fear seizes even great men. When God designs the ruin of a provoking people, he can find instruments to…

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Isaiah 5:27 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

אֵין\־'ein-there notH369
עָיֵ֤ף'a.Yef[is] a weary [one]H5889
וְאֵין\־ve.'ein-and there notH369
כּוֹשֵׁל֙ko.Shel[is one who] stumblesH3782
בּ֔וֹboamong it
לֹ֥אlo'notH3808
יָנ֖וּםya.Numanyone will slumberH5123
וְלֹ֣אve.Lo'and notH3808
יִישָׁ֑ןyi.Shananyone will sleepH3462
וְלֹ֤אve.Lo'and notH3808
נִפְתַּח֙nif.Tachit has been openedH6605
אֵז֣וֹר'e.Zor[the] waistband ofH232
חֲלָצָ֔יוcha.la.Tzavloins itsH2504
וְלֹ֥אve.Lo'and notH3808
נִתַּ֖קni.Takit has been torn apartH5423
שְׂר֥וֹךְse.Rokha thong ofH8288
נְעָלָֽיו\׃ne.'a.Lavsandals itsH5275

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Cross references for Isaiah 5:27

  • Job 12:18

    He looseth the bond of kings, and girdeth their loins with a girdle.

  • Joel 2:7-8

    They shall run like mighty men; they shall climb the wall like men of war; and they shall march every one on his ways, and they shall not break their ranks: Neither shall one thrust another; they shall walk every one in his path: and when they fall upon the sword, they shall not be wounded.

  • Job 12:21

    He poureth contempt upon princes, and weakeneth the strength of the mighty.

  • Isaiah 45:1

    Thus saith the Lord to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I have holden, to subdue nations before him; and I will loose the loins of kings, to open before him the two leaved gates; and the gates shall not be shut;

  • Isaiah 45:5

    I am the Lord, and there is none else, there is no God beside me: I girded thee, though thou hast not known me:

  • Isaiah 11:5

    And righteousness shall be the girdle of his loins, and faithfulness the girdle of his reins.

  • Psalms 18:32

    It is God that girdeth me with strength, and maketh my way perfect.

  • Psalms 93:1

    The Lord reigneth, he is clothed with majesty; the Lord is clothed with strength, wherewith he hath girded himself: the world also is stablished, that it cannot be moved.

  • 1 Kings 2:5

    Moreover thou knowest also what Joab the son of Zeruiah did to me, and what he did to the two captains of the hosts of Israel, unto Abner the son of Ner, and unto Amasa the son of Jether, whom he slew, and shed the blood of war in peace, and put the blood of war upon his girdle that was about his loins, and in his shoes that were on his feet.

  • Daniel 5:6

    Then the king’s countenance was changed, and his thoughts troubled him, so that the joints of his loins were loosed, and his knees smote one against another.

  • Ephesians 6:13-14

    Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand. Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness;

  • Deuteronomy 32:25

    The sword without, and terror within, shall destroy both the young man and the virgin, the suckling also with the man of gray hairs.

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shall be.
Joe 2:7,8
neither.
11:5; 45:1,5; 1Ki 2:5; Job 12:18,21; *marg:
Ps 18:32; 93:1; Da 5:6
Eph 6:13,14
nor the latchet.
De 32:25

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Context

  • Isaiah 5:26

    And he will lift up an ensign to the nations from far, and will hiss unto them from the end of the earth: and, behold, they shall come with speed swiftly:

  • Isaiah 5:27

    None shall be weary nor stumble among them; none shall slumber nor sleep; neither shall the girdle of their loins be loosed, nor the latchet of their shoes be broken:

  • Isaiah 5:28

    Whose arrows are sharp, and all their bows bent, their horses’ hoofs shall be counted like flint, and their wheels like a whirlwind:

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Isaiah 5:27 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
No habrá entre ellos cansado, ni que vacile; ninguno se dormirá ni le tomará sueño; á ninguno se le desatará el cinto de los lomos, ni se le romperá la correa de sus zapatos.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
En elle, nul qui soit las ou qui bronche; nul ne sommeille, nul ne dort; nul n’a la ceinture de ses reins déliée, ou la courroie de sa chaussure arrachée.
German
Elberfelder 1871
Bei ihr ist kein Müder und kein Strauchelnder, keiner schlummert noch schläft; auch ist nicht gelöst der Gürtel ihrer Lenden, noch zerrissen der Riemen ihrer Schuhe.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate
Non est deficiens neque laborans in eo; non dormitabit, neque dormiet; neque solvetur cingulum renum ejus, nec rumpetur corrigia calceamenti ejus.