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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

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 5:7

The difference between what God asks and what God gets. The original terms of this verse contain a very striking play upon words, which can but imperfectly be rendered into English. "He looked for judgment ( mishpat ), and behold oppression ( mishpach ); for righteousness ( tsedakah ), and behold a cry ( tseakah ) of the oppressed for help." Dr. C. Geikie translates the verse thus: "And he hoped for deeds of good, but, behold, there are only deeds of blood; for righteousness,... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 5:1

Now will I sing - This is an indication that what follows is poetic, or is adapted to be sung or chanted.To my well-beloved - The word used here - ידיד yedı̂yd - is a term of endearment. It properly denotes a friend; a favorite; one greatly beloved. It is applied to saints as being the beloved, or the favorites of God, in Psalms 127:2; Deuteronomy 33:12. In this place, it is evidently applied to Yahweh, the God of the Jewish people. As there is some reason to believe that the God of the Jews -... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 5:2

And he fenced it - Margin, ‘Made a wall about it.’ The word used here is supposed rather to mean “to dig about, to grub,” as with a pick-axe or spade. - “Gesenius.” It has this signification in Arabic, and in one place in the Jewish Talmud. - “Kimchi.” The Vulgate and the Septuagint understands it of making a hedge or fence, probably the first work in preparing a vineyard. And as ‘a hedge’ is expressly mentioned in Isaiah 5:5, it seems most probable that that is its meaning here.And gathered... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 5:3

And now ... - This is an appeal which God makes to the Jews themselves, in regard to the justice and propriety of what he was about to do. A similar appeal he makes in Micah 6:3 : ‘O my people, what have I done unto thee? and wherein have I wearied thee? Testify against me.’ He intended to “punish” them Isaiah 5:5-6, and he appeals to them for the justice of it. He would do to them as they would do to a vineyard that had been carefully prepared and guarded, and which yet was valueless. A... read more

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

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 5:7

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 5:1

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 5:2

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 5:3

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