Isaiah 5:1

Let me sing for my well beloved, a song of my beloved about his vineyard. 1 My well beloved had a vineyard on a very fertile hill. 1

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In The King James Version

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:

In Context

2He spaded it, removed the stones, and planted it with an excellent kind of vine. 1 He built a tower in the middle of it, and also built a winepress. 1 He waited for it to produce grapes, but it only produced wild grapes. 1

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 8:7For Yahweh your God is bringing you into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and springs, flowing out into valleys and among hills;

Deuteronomy 31:19Now therefore write this song for yourselves and teach it to the people of Israel. Put it in their mouths, so that this song may be a witness for me against the people of Israel.

Psalms 45:1My heart overflows on a good subject; 1 I will read aloud the words I have composed about the king; 1 my tongue is the pen of a ready writer. 1

Psalms 101:1I will sing of covenant faithfulness and justice; 1 to you, Yahweh, I will sing praises. 1

Song of Solomon 5:2I was asleep, but my heart was awake. 1 There is the sound of my beloved knocking and saying, 1 “Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled one, 1 for my head is wet with dew, 1 my hair with the night's dampness.” 1

Song of Solomon 6:3I am my beloved's, and my beloved is mine; 1 he grazes among the lilies with pleasure. The man speaking to the woman 1

Matthew Henry on Isaiah 5:1

In this chapter the prophet, in God's name, shows the people of God their transgressions, even the house of Jacob their sins, and the judgments which were likely to be brought upon them for their sins, I. By a parable, under the similitude of an unfruitful vineyard, representing the great favours God had bestowed upon them, their disappointing his expectations from them, and the ruin they had thereby deserved, ver. 1-7 . II. By an enumeration of the sins that did abound among them, with a threatening of… Read the whole commentary →

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