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G. Campbell Morgan

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 5:1-30

With the thought of judgment, and the necessity for it still in mind, the prophet utters his great denunciation. This falls into three parts. The first is a song of accusation. By the simple and familiar illustration of the rights of the proprietor in his vineyard, the prophet appeals to the listening people. The nature of the parable is such as to compel their assent to the rightness of the judgment indicated. The prophet immediately makes a blunt application of his song as he declares that... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 5:1-7

God’s Fruitless Vineyard (Isaiah 5:1-7 ). In the first few verses we find a song, which was possibly sung by Isaiah at the celebration of the vintage harvest, as he gathered with men who were singing vintage songs at a wine festival, and sang a song of his own compilation. As Isaiah began his song it would at first appear to them to be an innocuous general love song, listened to appreciatively by all, and especially as it became sad, until it finally delivered to them a devastating message.... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 5:1-7

Isaiah 5:1-Judges : . The Parable of the Thankless Vineyard.— Isaiah probably at a vintage festival, when Judæ ans from the country ( Isaiah 5:3), as well as the inhabitants of Jerusalem, are present, comes forward as a minstrel. He sings this song of his friend’ s vineyard in light popular measure, making it attractive with beautiful plays upon words. He skilfully heightens the interest of his hearers, and by concealing the true nature of the vineyard he wins from them a mental... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Isaiah 5:3

I dare make you judges in your own cause, it is so plain and reasonable. read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Isaiah 5:1-7

THE PARABLE OF THE VINEYARDIsaiah 5:1-7. Now will I sing, &c.I. The Privileges conferred on the Jewish nation (Isaiah 5:2-3). It would be vain and useless to attempt, as some have done, to find in the privileges of the Jews an exact counterpart to the various items here specified concerning this “vineyard.” For example, Jerome regards the fencing of the vineyard as symbolical of the protection of the Jews by the angels; the gathering out of the stones, the removal of the idols; the tower,... read more

Charles Simeon

Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae - Isaiah 5:3-5

DISCOURSE: 864GOD’S APPEAL TO MAN’S DECISIONIsaiah 5:3-5. O inhabitants of Jerusalem, and men of Judah, judge, I pray you, betwixt me and my vineyard. What could have been done more to my vineyard that I have not done in it? Wherefore when I looked that it should bring forth grapes, brought it forth wild grapes? And now go to; I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard.MERCIES are obligations to obedience, and aggravations of the guilt of disobedience. This is declined under the similitude... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Isaiah 5:1-30

Chapter 5Now in the fifth chapter the Lord takes up the parable of a vineyard in which He likens Judah or Israel, His people, unto a vineyard.Now will I sing to my well-beloved a song of my beloved touching his vineyard. My well-beloved hath a vineyard in a very fruitful hill: And he fenced it, and gathered out the stones thereof ( Isaiah 5:1-2 ),And you that have been over know what a job it is to gather the stones out of the vineyard and you see how that they gathered the stones and make... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Isaiah 5:1-30

Isaiah 5:1 . My well-beloved; the Messiah, who certainly was Lord of the Vineyard, and the men of Judah were his pleasant plants. Psalms 80:14-15. Ezekiel 17:6. Hosea 10:1. Matthew 20:1-16. They were a people whom he cultivated, and with whom he delighted as a garden. To understand this vineyard of a fruitful horn is diverting enough; for a horn, like a mountain, is elevated. So Dr. Lowth, for two pages; and so Erasmus makes us merry in his battle of grammarians. Isaiah 5:2 . The... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Isaiah 5:1-7

Isaiah 5:1-7Now will I sing to my well-belovedHopes concerning the vineyardThe Lord’s hopes and disappointment with His vineyard.(A. B. Davidson, LL. D.)Truth to be presented in varied formAaron’s bells must be wisely rung. Sometimes the treble of mercy sounds well, at other times the tenor of judgment, or counter tenor of reproof, sounds better: and it often happens that the mean of exhortation sounds best of all. It is wisdom to observe circumstances, and know how to curse as well as bless,... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Isaiah 5:3

Isaiah 5:3Judge, I pray you, betwixt Me and My vineyardThe unfruitful vineyardI.The way in which the inspired penman is guided to put the question in the text seems to lead us to ONE OF WE SUBTLEST WEAKNESSES OF HUMAN NATURE,--I mean the power which men possess of perceiving general truth without at the same time perceiving its particular bearing on themselves. Often and often are we, all unconsciously, judging between God and His vineyard, and we know it not. There is no general denunciation... read more

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