Isa 5:7 | Clarke | e4.org | Verse 7. And he looked for judgment ] The paronomasia , or play on the words, in this place, is very remarkable; mishpat, mishpach, tsedakah, tseakah . There are many examples of it in the other prophets, but Isaiah seems peculiarly fond of it. See . Rabbi David Kimchi has noticed the paronomasia here: he expected mishpat, judgment , but behold mishpach, oppression ; he expected tsedakah, righteousness , but behold tseakah, a cry . The rabbins esteem it a great beauty; their term for it is tsachoth haltashon, elegance of language . Oppression -"tyranny."] mishpach , from shaphach , servum fecit, Arab. Houbigant : shiphchah is serva , a handmaid or female slave. mispach , eighteen MSS.

‏ Isaiah 5:7

Verse 7. And he looked for judgment] The paronomasia, or play on the words, in this place, is very remarkable; mishpat, mishpach, tsedakah, tseakah. There are many examples of it in the other prophets, but Isaiah seems peculiarly fond of it. See Isa 13:6; 24:17; 32:7; 28:1; 57:6; 61:3; 65:11, 12. Rabbi David Kimchi has noticed the paronomasia here: he expected mishpat, judgment, but behold mishpach, oppression; he expected tsedakah, righteousness, but behold tseakah, a cry. The rabbins esteem it a great beauty; their term for it is tsachoth haltashon, elegance of language.

Oppression-"tyranny."] mishpach, from shaphach, servum fecit, Arab. Houbigant: shiphchah is serva, a handmaid or female slave. mispach, eighteen MSS.