Isaiah 5:4

What more could I have done for you than what I have already done? I expected you to be doing good deeds [MET], so it is disgusting that [RHQ] you were doing only evil things like the vineyard that produced only sour grapes!

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

What could have been done more to my vineyard, that I have not done in it? wherefore, when I looked that it should bring forth grapes, brought it forth wild grapes?

In Context

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.

5So, I will now tell you what I will do to Judah, the place that is like my vineyard. I will cut down the hedges, and they will be destroyed. I will tear down the walls of the cities and allow wild animals to trample the land.

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Cross References

Exodus 37:22All these flower buds and branches, along with the shaft, were hammered from one large lump of pure gold.

Isaiah 1:5Why do you [RHQ] continue to do things for which you should be punished? Why do you continue to rebel against Yahweh? You are like [MET] someone whose head is badly injured and whose mind is sick/corrupt.

Jeremiah 2:30I punished some of you, but you did not learn anything from my doing that. You have killed many of the prophets that I sent to you, like [SIM] fierce lions kill other animals.

Ezekiel 24:13The rust in the pot represents your immoral behavior. I tried to cleanse you from your wicked behavior, but you did not allow me to do that. So you will not be cleansed from the guilt of your sin until I have punished you and I am no longer angry.

Micah 6:3My people, what have I done to cause trouble for you [RHQ]? What have I done to cause you to experience difficulties? Answer me!

Acts 7:51“You people are extremely stubborn [MET], not wanting to obey God or listen [MTY] to him! You are exactly like your ancestors! You always resist the Holy Spirit as they did!

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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