イザヤ書 5:3-7 JC

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 5:1-7

God's care for man, and man's ingratitude. Three times has God made himself a vineyard upon earth, planted a plantation of choice vines, endued by him with the capacity of bringing forth excellent fruit, fenced his vineyard round with care, cleared its soil of stones, pruned its superfluous shoots, hoed out the weeds from between the vine-stocks, bestowed on it all possible tendance, and looked to see a suitable result; and three times has the result, for which he had every right to look, ... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 5:1-7

The parable of the vineyard. I. NOTICE THE ART OF THE PARABLE . It has been remarked, "A proverb finds him who a sermon flies." Pictures from nature are acceptable to all, especially of that nature which is familiar to the imagination of the listener. Through the imagination we may glide into our listener's heart and conscience. The truth comes with much more power when it is made to glance from an object intermediate between the mind and its naked reality. A great secret of... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 5:1-7

Privilege and penalty. We have a striking picture of— I. THE FULNESS OF THE DIVINE PROVISION . ( Isaiah 5:1 4.) The second verse describes in detail the processes by which the vineyard is prepared for fruitfulness, and in the fourth verse the question is asked, "What could have been done more to my vineyard, that I have not done in it?" The idea is that of the fullness of the Divine provision for the Jewish nation . God had provided: 1. Illustrious men—Moses, Aaron,... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 5:3

The prophet's "song" here ends, and Jehovah himself takes the word. As if the story told in the parable had been a fact, he calls on the men of Judah and Jerusalem to "judge between him and his vineyard." Compare Nathan's appeal to David by the parable of the ewe lamb ( 2 Samuel 12:1-4 ). read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 5:4

What could have been done more? Comp. 2 Kings 17:13 and 2 Chronicles 36:15 , where God is shown to have done all that was possible to reclaim his people: "Yet the Lord testified against Israel, and against Judah, by all the prophets , and all the seers, saying, Turn ye from your evil ways, and keep my commandments and my statutes, according to the Law which I commanded your fathers, and which I sent to you by my servants the prophets;" "And the Lord God of their fathers sent unto them... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 5:4

The ingratitude of an unfruitful life. The passage connected with this verse is conceived quite in the spirit of our Lord's parables. In a picture taken from familiar scenes of nature, the relations between God and his people are shown. As in the parable spoken by Nathan, a definite judgment is asked. That judgment, whether given audibly or only felt, is made an earnest appeal of God to their own conscience and their own hearts. Three things are set forth prominently in this parable. I. ... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 5:5

And now go to; I will tell you ; rather, and now , I pray you , let me tell yon . The address is still smooth and persuasive up to the word "vineyard." Then there is a sudden change; the style becomes abrupt, the tone fierce and menacing. "Let me tell you what I will do to my vineyard: break down its hedge, that it be grazed on; destroy its wall, that it be trampled underfoot," etc. The hedge … the wall . Vine-yards were usually protected either by a hedge of thorns, commonly of... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 5:5-6

Divine judgments on ingratitude. The picture presented is one of complete desolation. A miserable sight is the untended vineyard. No desolation is so complete as that which comes to lands which man has once tilled and then left neglected. Hugh Macmillan remarks that this judgment has even been literally fulfilled. "No country in the world has such variety and abundance of thorny plants as Palestine in its present desolation; there are giant thistles, growing to the height of a man on... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 5:6

I will lay it waste ; literally, I will make it a desolation (comp. Isaiah 7:19 , where a cognate term occurs). Active ravage is not so much pointed at, as the desolation which comes from neglect. There shall come up briers and thorns. The natural produce of neglected ground in Palestine (see Proverbs 24:31 ). The "thorns and briers" symbolize vices of various kinds, the natural produce of the human soul, if God leaves it to itself. The words are scarcely to be taken literally,... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 5:7

For the vineyard , etc. The full explanation of the parable follows immediately on the disclosure in Isaiah 5:6 . The vineyard is "Israel," or rather "Judah;" the fruit expected from it, "judgment and righteousness;" the wild grapes which alone it had produced, "oppression" and the "cry" of the distressed. His pleasant plan; : literally, the plant of his delights ; i.e. the plantation in which he had so long taken delight. He looked for judgment, etc. Gesenius has attempted to give... read more

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 5:1-7

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 5:1-7

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 5:1-7

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 5:3

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 5:4

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 5:4

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 5:5

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 5:5-6

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 5:6

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 5:7

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