Charles Spurgeon Commentary Isaiah 5:15-16

"And the mean man is bowed down, and the great man is humbled, and the eyes of the lofty are humbled: but Jehovah of hosts is exalted in justice, and God the Holy One is sanctified in righteousness." — Isaiah 5:15-16 (ASV)

For whoever may stain himself with sin, God will not. We may think lightly of sin, but he never does. We may be so foolish as to tolerate iniquity in ourselves and wink at it in others, but God will not do so. Even when sin was laid on Christ, he struck him to death. Though he was not guilty of any sin, yet, when our sin lay there, God turned away his face from his son, and he died. And if he did not spare sin in his son, do you think he will spare it in us? Ah, no!

He is a just God, and he will clear his hands of any complicity with iniquity. The sixteenth verse is the song of Hannah, that greatest of ancient poetesses. It is the song of Mary, who copied it from Hannah: He hath put down the mighty from their seats, and exalted them of low degree. He hath filled the hungry with good things; and the rich he hath sent empty away.