Isaiah 5:2
He 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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3So now, inhabitant of Jerusalem and man of Judah, 1 judge between me and my vineyard. 1
Cross References
Numbers 23:9For from the top of the rocks I see him; 2 from the hills I look at him. 1 See, there is a people who live alone 2 and do not consider themselves as just an ordinary nation. 1
Deuteronomy 32:8When the Most High gave the nations their inheritance— 1 when he divided all of mankind, 1 and he set the boundaries of the peoples, 1 as he also fixed the number of their gods. 1
Judges 16:4After this, Samson came to love a woman who lived in the Valley of Sorek. Her name was Delilah.
Psalms 44:1We have heard with our ears, God, 1 our fathers have told us 1 what work you did in their days, 1 in the days of old. 1
Isaiah 1:2Hear, heavens, and give ear, earth; for Yahweh has spoken: 1 “I have nourished and brought up children, but they have rebelled against me. 1
Isaiah 1:21How the faithful city has become a prostitute! 1 She who was full of justice—she was full of righteousness, 1 but now she is full of murderers. 1
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 →