Isaiah 5:6

And I will lay it waste; 1 it shall not be pruned, 1 nor cultivated; 1 but there shall come up briers and thorns; 1 I will also command the clouds that they rain no matar (rain) upon it. 1

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

And I will lay it waste: it shall not be pruned, nor digged; but there shall come up briers and thorns: I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it.

In Context

5And now then; 1 I will tell you now what I will do to my kerem (vineyard): 1 I will take away the hedge thereof, 1 and it shall be grazed upon; 1 and break down the wall thereof, 1 and it shall be trampled down; 1

7For the Kerem Hashem Tzva'os 1 is Bais Yisroel, 1 and the Ish Yehudah 1 are the planting of His delight; 1 and He looked for mishpat (justice), 1 but, hinei, mishpach (bloodshed, rapaciousness); 1 for tzedakah, but, hinei, tze'akah (cry of distress). 1

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 28:23And thy Shomayim that is over thy head shall be nechoshet, and Ha'Aretz that is under thee shall be barzel.

1 Kings 17:1And Eliyahu HaTishbi, who was of the inhabitants of Tishbe-Gil'ad, said unto Ach'av (King Ahab of Israel), As Hashem Elohei Yisroel liveth, before whom I stand, + 17:1 ministering, as minister there shall not be tal nor matar these shanim [ahead], except according to my word.

Proverbs 24:31And, hinei, it was all grown over with thorns, 1 and charullim (nettles) had covered the surface thereof, 1 and the stone wall thereof was broken down. 1

Isaiah 6:11Then cried I, Adonoi, ad mosai (how much longer [will this go on])? 1 And He answered, 1 Until the towns be wasted without inhabitant, 1 and the batim (houses) are without man, 1 and the ground be utterly desolate, a wilderness, 1

Isaiah 24:1Hinei, Hashem maketh Ha'Aretz empty, and maketh it waste, 1 and ruineth her face, 1 and scattereth abroad the inhabitants thereof. 1

Isaiah 30:23Then shall He send the matar of thy zera (seed), that thou shalt sow the adamah therewith; and lechem of the increase of the adamah, and it shall be rich and plenteous; in that day shall thy mikneh feed in broad pastures.

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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