Isaiah 5:4
What more should I have done for my vineyard that I did not do for it? Should I not have expected it to produce grapes, though it produced wild vines?
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In The King James Version
In Context
3Now then, inhabitants of Jerusalem and men of Judah: judge between me and my vineyard.
Cross References
Exodus 37:22Thus, both the little spheres and the branches were from the same thing: all hand-worked from the purest gold.
Isaiah 1:5For what reason shall I continue to strike you, as you increase transgressions? The entire head is feeble, and the entire heart is grieving.
Jeremiah 2:30I have struck your children to no effect; they have not accepted discipline. Your own sword has devoured your prophets. Your generation is like a raging lion.
Ezekiel 24:13Your uncleanness is execrable. For I wanted to cleanse you, and you have not been cleansed from your filth. So then, neither will you be cleansed before I cause my indignation over you to cease.
Micah 6:3My people, what have I done to you, or how have I assailed you? Respond to me.
Acts 7:51Stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, you ever resist the Holy Spirit. Just as your fathers did, so also do you do.
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 →