Isaiah 5:1

Let me sing, I pray you, for a well-beloved of mine, The song of my beloved concerning his vineyard:—A vineyard, had my well-beloved on a very fruitful hill;

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

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

2And he thoroughly digged it, And gathered out the stones thereof, And planted it with a precious vine, And built a tower in the midst thereof, Moreover also a wine-press, hewed he therein,—Then waited he that it should bring forth grapes. And it brought forth wild grapes:

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 8:7For, Yahweh thy God, is bringing thee into a good land; a land of ravines of water, of fountains and depths, coming forth in valley, and in mountain:

Deuteronomy 31:19Now, therefore write ye for you this Song, and teach it unto the sons of Israel put it in their mouths,—that this Song may become for me a witness against the sons of Israel.

Psalms 45:1Overflowed hath my heart, with an excellent theme, I will recite my poem concerning the king, Be, my tongue, [like] the pen of a scribe who is skilled.

Psalms 101:1Of lovingkindness and of justice, will I sing! Unto thee, O Yahweh, will I touch the strings!

Song of Solomon 5:2[SHE] I, was sleeping, but, my heart, was awake,—The voice of my beloved—knocking! Open to me, my sister, my fair one, my dove, my perfect one, for, my head, is filled with dew, my locks, with the moisture of the night.

Song of Solomon 6:3I, am, my beloved’s, and, my beloved, is mine, he that pastureth among lilies.

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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