Isaiah 5:3

"Now, inhabitants of Jerusalem and men of Judah,please judge between me and my vineyard.

New Heart English Bible

In The King James Version

And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem, and men of Judah, judge, I pray you, betwixt me and my vineyard.

In Context

2He dug it up,gathered out its stones,planted it with the choicest vine,built a tower in its midst,and also cut out a winepress therein.He looked for it to yield grapes,but it yielded wild grapes.

4What could have been done more to my vineyard, that I have not done in it?Why, when I looked for it to yield grapes, did it yield wild grapes?

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Cross References

Psalms 51:4Against you, and you only, have I sinned,and done that which is evil in your sight;that you may be proved right when you speak,and justified when you judge.

Micah 6:2Hear, you mountains, the Lord's controversy,and you enduring foundations of the earth;for the Lord has a controversy with his people,and he will contend with Israel.

Mark 12:9What therefore will the lord of the vineyard do? He will come and destroy the farmers, and will give the vineyard to others.

Romans 2:5But according to your hardness and unrepentant heart you are treasuring up for yourself wrath in the day of wrath, revelation, and of the righteous judgment of God;

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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