John Trapp on Isaiah 5:5

Ver. 5. And now go to, I will tell you, &c.] God loveth to fore-ſignifie, to warn ere he woundeth, and to foretell a judgement ere he inflicteth it. This he doth that he may be prevented, Amos 4.12. Prolata eſt ſententia ut non fiat. Well might the Lord ſay, Fury is not in me, Iſa. 27.3.

I will take away the hedge thereof] Hedge and Wall ſhall be taken away at once from an ungrateful people: and all laid open to the wrath of God and rage of enemies; it ſhall be opentide indeed: See Pſalm 80.12, 13. And what may be reaſonably pleaded againſt God at ſuch a time, when he may ſay to men as Reuben did to his brethren, Did not I warn you, ſaying, Sin not?

It ſhall be eaten up—it ſhall be trodden down] All ſhall run to ruine, as it did at Jeruſalem by the Babylonians, but eſpecially by the Romans: and as it did in Chriſtendom about ſix hundred years after Chriſts Incarnation, when Religion was become a matter of form, yea of ſcorn; then the Sarazens in the Eaſt, and the barbarous Nations in the Weſt brake in, and bore down all before them.