Isaiah 5:1
Let me sing for my well-beloved a song of my beloved concerning his vineyard. My well-beloved had a vineyard in a very fruitful hill.
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Deuteronomy 8:7For LORD thy God brings thee into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and springs, flowing forth in valleys and hills;
Deuteronomy 31:19Now therefore write ye this song for you, and teach thou it the sons of Israel. Put it in their mouths, that this song may be a witness for me against the sons of Israel.
Psalms 45:1My heart overflows with a good matter. I speak the things which I have made concerning the king. My tongue is the pen of a ready writer.
Psalms 101:1I will sing of loving kindness and justice. To thee, O LORD, I will sing praises.
Song of Solomon 5:2I was asleep, but my heart awoke. It is the voice of my beloved who knocks, [saying], Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled. For my head is filled with dew, my locks with the drops of the night.
Song of Solomon 6:3I am my beloved's, and my beloved is mine. He feeds among the lilies.
Matthew Henry on Isaiah 5:1
In this chapter the prophet, in God's name, shows the people of God their transgressions, even the house of Jacob their sins, and the judgments which were likely to be brought upon them for their sins, I. By a parable, under the similitude of an unfruitful vineyard, representing the great favours God had bestowed upon them, their disappointing his expectations from them, and the ruin they had thereby deserved, ver. 1-7 . II. By an enumeration of the sins that did abound among them, with a threatening of… Read the whole commentary →