Isaiah 5:2
And I made a hedge round it, and dug a trench, and planted a choice vine, and built a tower in the midst of it, and dug a place for the wine vat in it: and I waited for it to bring forth grapes, and it brought forth thorns.
Updated Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
In Context
3And now, ye dwellers in Jerusalem, and every man of Judah, judge between me and my vineyard.
Cross References
Numbers 23:9For from the top of the mountains I shall see him, 1 And from the hills I shall observe him: 1 Behold, the people shall dwell alone, 1 And shall not be reckoned among the nations. 1
Deuteronomy 32:8When the Most High divided the nations, 1 When he separated the sons of Adam, 1 He set the bounds of the nations 1 According to the number of the angels of God. 1
Judges 16:4And it came to pass after this that he loved a woman in Al-sorek, and her name was Delilah.
Psalms 44:1For the end, for alternate strains by the sons of Korah; for instruction, a Song concerning the beloved. 1
Isaiah 1:2Hear, O heaven, and hearken, O earth: for the Lord has spoken, saying, I have begotten and reared up children, but they have rebelled against me.
Isaiah 1:21How has the faithful city Zion, once full of judgment, become a harlot! wherein righteousness lodged, but now murderers.
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 →