Introduction
CHAPTER 5
:-. PARABLE OF JEHOVAH'S VINEYARD.
A new prophecy; entire in itself. Probably delivered about the same time as the second and third chapters, in Uzziah's reign. Compare Isaiah 5:15; Isaiah 5:16; Isaiah 2:17; and Isaiah 5:1; Isaiah 3:14. However, the close of the chapter alludes generally to the still distant invasion of Assyrians in a later reign (compare Isaiah 5:26; Isaiah 7:18; and Isaiah 5:25; Isaiah 9:12). When the time drew nigh, according to the ordinary prophetic usage, he handles the details more particularly (Isaiah 9:12- :); namely, the calamities caused by the Syro-Israelitish invasion, and subsequently by the Assyrians whom Ahaz had invited to his help.
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