Isaiah 5:2

My friend plowed the ground and cleared away the stones. Then he planted very good grapevines on that ground. In the middle of the vineyard, he built a watchtower, and he dug a ◄winepress/pit for squeezing the grapes►. Then he waited each year to harvest some good grapes, but the vines produced only sour grapes.

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

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.

In Context

1Now I will sing a song about my dear friend, and about his vineyard. The vineyard was on a very fertile hillside.

3Now this is what Yahweh says: “You people of Jerusalem and other places in Judah, I am like the friend, and you are like my vineyard; so you judge which of us has done what is right.

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Cross References

Numbers 23:9I have seen them from the tops of the rocky peaks. I see that they are a group of people who live by themselves; they have separated themselves from other nations.

Deuteronomy 32:8When God, who is greater than any other god, long ago divided the people into groups, he assigned to the nations their land. He determined where each people-group should live and ◄assigned to/chose for► each people-group a god/angel.

Judges 16:4Later Samson fell in love with a woman named Delilah, and started to live with her. She lived in Sorek Valley in the Philistia area.

Psalms 44:1God, we ourselves have heard what our parents and grandparents told us. They told us about the miracles that you performed long ago.

Isaiah 1:2This is what Yahweh says: “All you angels in [APO] heaven and all you people on [APO] earth, listen to me! The people that I caused to exist and took care of [DOU] have rebelled against me.

Isaiah 1:21“ You people of Jerusalem previously faithfully worshiped only me, but now you have become like [MET] prostitutes who are not faithful to any husband. Previously, people there always acted justly/fairly and righteously, but now your city is full of 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 →

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