Isaiah 5:3

And now, you people of Jerusalem and you men of Judah, be the judges between me and my vine-garden.

Bible in Basic English

In The King James Version

And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem, and men of Judah, judge, I pray you, betwixt me and my vineyard.

In Context

2And after working the earth of it with a spade, he took away its stones, and put in it a very special vine; and he put up a watchtower in the middle of it, hollowing out in the rock a place for the grape-crushing; and he was hoping that it would give the best grapes, but it gave common grapes.

4Is there anything which might have been done for my vine-garden which I have not done? why then, when I was hoping for the best grapes did it give me common grapes?

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Cross References

Psalms 51:4\51:2\Let all my wrongdoing be washed away, and make me clean from evil.

Micah 6:2Give ear, O you mountains, to the Lord's cause, and take note, you bases of the earth: for the Lord has a cause against his people, and he will take it up with Israel.

Mark 12:9What then will the master of the garden do? He will come and put the workmen to death, and will give the garden into the hands of others.

Romans 2:5But by your hard and unchanged heart you are storing up wrath for yourself in the day of the revelation of God's judging in righteousness;

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 →

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