Isa 55:2, Hab 2:13 | JFB | STEP | 2. not bread — ( ). "Bread of deceit" ( ). Contrast this with the "bread of life" ( ; also ). satisfieth not — ( ). hearken . . . and eat —When two imperatives are joined, the second expresses the consequence of obeying the command in the first ( ). By hearkening ye shall eat. So in , "buy and eat." By buying, and so making it your own, ye shall eat, that is, experimentally enjoy it ( ). Compare the invitation ( ). fatness

Isaiah 55:2

2. not bread— (Hab 2:13). "Bread of deceit" (Pr 20:17). Contrast this with the "bread of life" (Joh 6:32, 35; also Lu 14:16-20).

satisfieth not— (Ec 1:8; 4:8).

hearken . . . and eat—When two imperatives are joined, the second expresses the consequence of obeying the command in the first (Ge 42:18). By hearkening ye shall eat. So in Isa 55:1, "buy and eat." By buying, and so making it your own, ye shall eat, that is, experimentally enjoy it (Joh 6:53). Compare the invitation (Pr 9:5, 6; Mt 22:4).

fatness— (Ps 36:8; 63:5).

Habakkuk 2:13

13. is it not of the Lord of hosts—JEHOVAH, who has at His command all the hosts of heaven and earth, is the righteous author of Babylon's destruction. "Shall not God have His turn, when cruel rapacious men have triumphed so long, though He seem now to be still?" [CALVIN].

people . . . labour in the . . . fire . . . weary themselves for . . . vanity—The Chaldeans labor at what is to be food for the fire, namely, their city and fortresses which shall be burnt. Jer 51:58 adopts the same phraseology to express the vanity of the Chaldean's labor on Babylon, as doomed to the flames.