Isaiah 5:5-6 NIV

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

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

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 5:6

There shall come up briers and thorns "The thorn shall spring up in it" - One MS. has בשמיר beshamir . The true reading seems to be שמור בו bo shamir , which is confirmed by the Septuagint, Syriac, and Vulgate. read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 5:1-7

ISRAEL REBUKED BY THE PARABLE OF A VINEYARD . This chapter stands in a certain sense alone, neither closely connected with what precedes nor with what follows, excepting that it breathes throughout a tone of denunciation. There is also a want of connection between its parts, the allegory of the first section being succeeded by a series of rebukes for sins, expressed in the plainest language, and the rebukes being followed by a threat of punishment, also expressed with... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

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 5:5

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

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

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

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

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 5:6

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 5:1-7

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 5:5

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 5:5-6

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