Isaiah 5:2
He dug it over, cleared the ground of stones, and planted it with the very best vines. In the middle of it he built a watchtower, and he also cut out a winepress from the rock. Then he waited for a good harvest of grapes, but it only produced wild, sour grapes.
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In Context
1Let me sing a song for my love, about his vineyard. My love owned a vineyard on a productive hill.
3“Now, you people who live in Jerusalem and Judah, please judge between me and my vineyard.
Cross References
Numbers 23:9For I'm looking down on them from the top of rocky crags; I'm watching them from the hills. I see a people who live on their own, different from the other nations.
Deuteronomy 32:8The Most High gave the nations their lands when he divided the human race; he fixed their borders depending on their gods.
Judges 16:4Later he fell in love with a woman named Delilah living in the Sorek Valley.
Psalms 44:1God, we have heard with our own ears—our forefathers have told us—all you did in their times, long ago.
Isaiah 1:2Heavens, listen! Earth, pay attention! For the Lord has spoken! I brought up children, I cared for them, but they have rebelled against me.
Isaiah 1:21The city that used to be faithful has turned into a prostitute! Once she operated on principles of justice and followed what was right, but now only murderers live there.
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 →