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Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Isaiah 5:1-7

See what variety of methods the great God takes to awaken sinners to repentance by convincing them of sin, and showing them their misery and danger by reason of it. To this purport he speaks sometimes in plain terms and sometimes in parables, sometimes in prose and sometimes in verse, as here. ?We have tried to reason with you (Isa. 1:18); now let us put your case into a poem, inscribed to the honour of my well beloved.? God the Father dictates it to the honour of Christ his well beloved Son,... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Isaiah 5:8-17

The world and the flesh are the two great enemies that we are in danger of being overpowered by; yet we are in no danger if we do not ourselves yield to them. Eagerness of the world, and indulgence of the flesh, are the two sins against which the prophet, in God's name, here denounces woes. These were sins which then abounded among the men of Judah, some of the wild grapes they brought forth (Isa. 5:4), and for which God threatens to bring ruin upon them. They are sins which we have all need... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 5:1

Now will I sing to my well beloved ,.... These are the words of the Prophet Isaiah, being about to represent the state and condition of the people of Israel by way of parable, which he calls a song, and which he determines to sing to his beloved, and calls upon himself to do it; by whom he means either God the Father, whom he loved with all his heart and soul; or Christ, who is often called the beloved of his people, especially in the book of Solomon's song; or else the people of Israel,... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 5:2

And he fenced it ,.... With good and wholesome laws, which distinguished them, and kept them separate from other nations; also with his almighty power and providence; especially at the three yearly festivals, when all their males appeared before God at Jerusalem: and gathered out the stones thereof ; the Heathens, the seven nations that inhabited the land of Canaan, compared to stones for their hardness and stupidity, and for their worshipping of idols of stone; see Psalm 80:8 . and... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 5:3

And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem, and men of Judah ,.... All and everyone of them, who were parties concerned in this matter, and are designed by the vineyard, for whom so much had been done, and so little fruit brought forth by them, or rather so much bad fruit: judge, I pray you, between me and my vineyard ; between God and themselves; they are made judges in their own cause; the case was so clear and evident, that God is as it were willing the affair should be decided by their own... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 5:4

What could have been done more to my vineyard, that I have not done in it ?.... Or "ought", as the Vulgate Latin: this is generally understood of good things done to it in time past; as what better culture could it have had? what greater privileges, blessings, and advantages, natural, civil, and religious, could have been bestowed on this people? what greater favour could have been shown them, or honour done them? or what of this kind remains to be done for them? they have had everything... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 5:5

And now, go to; I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard ,.... Not by bestowing fresh favours upon them, but by inflicting punishment on them, for abusing what they had received; and this he told by John Baptist, Christ, and his apostles, what he determined to do; and what he was about to do to the Jewish nation, in the utter ruin of it, Matthew 3:12 . I will take away the hedge thereof, and it shall be eaten up ; that is, the vineyard shall be eaten by the wild beasts that will... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 5:6

And I will lay it waste ,.... Or "desolate", as it was by the Romans: the whole land of Judea, as well as the city and temple Matthew 23:38 , it shall not be pruned nor digged ; as vineyards are, to make them more fruitful; but no care shall be taken of it, no means made use of to cultivate it, all being ineffectual: but there shall come up briers and thorns ; sons of Belial, wicked and ungodly men; immoralities, errors, heresies, contentions, quarrels, &c.; which abounded... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 5:7

For the vineyard of the Lord of hosts is the house of Israel ,.... This is the explication of the parable, or the accommodation and application of it to the people of Israel, by whom are meant the ten tribes; they are signified by the vineyard, which belonged to the Lord of hosts, who had chosen them to be a peculiar people to him, and had separated them from all others: and the men of Judah his pleasant plant ; they were so when first planted by the Lord; they were plants of delight, in... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 5:8

Woe unto them that join house to house ,.... Or "O ye that join", &c.; for, as Aben Ezra observes, it signifies calling, as in Isaiah 55:1 though Jarchi takes it to be expressive of crying and groaning, on account of future punishments; and he observes, that as there are twenty two blessings pronounced in the book of Psalms, on those that keep the law, so there are twenty two woes pronounced by Isaiah upon the wicked: that lay field to field ; the sin of covetousness is exposed... read more

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