Why does it say in the Bible. Isaiah 32: 5 The vile person shall no more be called liberal.?

Question

Was God telling us about the days we live in now or were there people in Isaiah's day God was refering to?

Answer 1

5 No longer will the fool be called noble
nor the scoundrel be highly respected.

6 For the fool speaks folly,
his mind is busy with evil:
He practices ungodliness
and spreads error concerning the LORD;
the hungry he leaves empty
and from the thirsty he withholds water.

Isaiah was speaking of his day and ours - the fool also says in his heart there is no God.

Yet in the end of all things his mouth will be stopped and no words will come forth. His words will be turned into Hell.

Answer 2

Isaiah 32:5 The vile person shall be no more called liberal(nādiyb), nor the churl said to be bountiful.

nāḏiyḇ - An adjective meaning willing, generous, noble; as a noun, those of noble birth. The word often denotes an attitude of heart which consents or agrees (often readily and cheerfully) to a course of action.

Barnes Notes on the Bible Isa 32:5 -
The vile person - Hebrew, ‘Fool.’ But the connection requires us to understand this as the opposite of liberal; and it means a person who is close, miserly, narrow-minded, covetous. This person is designated, very appropriately, as a fool.

Shall be no more called liberal - It is probable that under the reign of former princes, when all views of right and wrong had been perverted, people of unprincipled character had been the subjects of flattery, and names of virtue had been attributed to them by their friends and admirers. But it would not be so under the virtuous reign of the prince here celebrated. Things would be called by their right names, and flattery would not be allowed to attribute to people, qualities which they did not possess.

Nor the churl - The word ‘churl’ means properly a rude, surly, ill-bred man; then a miser, a niggard. The Hebrew word means properly a deceiver, a fraudulent man (Gesenius). The word avaricious, however, seems to suit the connection. Lowth renders it, ‘Niggard.’ Noyes, ‘Crafty.’

Bountiful - Flattery shall no more ascribe to a miserly man a character which does not belong to him.

Answer 3

mine reads: The senseless one will no longer be called generous; and as for the unprincipled man, he will not be said to be noble
6:because the senseless one himself will speak mere senselessness, and his very heart will work at what is hurtful, to work at apostasy and to speak against Jehovah what is wayward, to cause the soul of the hungry one to go empty, and he causes even the thirsty one to go without drink itself.
7: As for the unprincipled man, his instruments are bad; he himself has given counsel for acts of loose conduct, to wreck the afflicted ones with false saying even when someone poor speaks what is right.
We see this today with false religion.
People are spiritually hungry and thirsty and their religious leaders offer them false teachings and they go unsatisfied.
Their religious leaders allowed their followers to pollute themselves with tobacco, drugs, drink, and loose conduct (sex outside of the bounds of marriage)

Answer 4

No, according to my Bible they mean it to mean foolish. (foolish man)