Verse 7
7. Isaiah here applies the parable. It is no mere human owner, nor a literal vineyard that is meant.
vineyard of the Lord—His only one (Exodus 19:5; Amos 3:2).
pleasant—"the plant of his delight"; just as the husbandman was at pains to select the sorek, or "choicest vine" (Amos 3:2- :); so God's election of the Jews.
judgment—justice. The play upon words is striking in the Hebrew, He looked for mishpat, but behold mispat ("bloodshed"); for tsedaqua, but behold tseaqua (the cry that attends anarchy, covetousness, and dissipation, Isaiah 5:8; Isaiah 5:11; Isaiah 5:12; compare the cry of the rabble by which justice was overborne in the case of Jesus Christ, Matthew 27:23; Matthew 27:24).
Matthew 27:24- :. SIX DISTINCT WOES AGAINST CRIMES.
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