Isaiah 5:4
What could have been done more to my vineyard that I have not done in it? Why, when I looked that it should bring forth grapes, it brought forth wild grapes?
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
3And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem and men of Judah, judge, I pray you, between me and my vineyard.
Cross References
Exodus 37:22Their knobs and their branches were of one piece with it. The whole of it was one beaten work of pure gold.
Isaiah 1:5Why will ye be still stricken, that ye revolt more and more? The whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.
Jeremiah 2:30In vain I have smitten your sons. They received no correction. Your own sword has devoured your prophets like a destroying lion.
Ezekiel 24:13In thy filthiness is lewdness. Because I have cleansed thee and thou were not cleansed, thou shall not be cleansed from thy filthiness any more, till I have caused my wrath toward thee to rest.
Micah 6:3O my people, what have I done to thee? And in what have I wearied thee? Testify against me.
Acts 7:51Ye stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Spirit. As your fathers, ye also.
Matthew Henry on Isaiah 5:2-8
Israel Compared to a Vineyard. ( b. c. 758.) 1 Now will I sing to my wellbeloved a song of my beloved touching his vineyard. My wellbeloved hath a vineyard in a very fruitful hill: 2 And he fenced it, and gathered out the stones thereof, and planted it with the choicest vine, and built a tower in the midst of it, and also made a winepress therein: and he looked that it should bring forth grapes, and it brought forth wild grapes. 3 And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem, and men of Judah, judge, I pray you, betwixt me… Read the whole commentary →