Isaiah 5:7 - Exposition

For the vineyard , etc. The full explanation of the parable follows immediately on the disclosure in Isaiah 5:6 . The vineyard is "Israel," or rather "Judah;" the fruit expected from it, "judgment and righteousness;" the wild grapes which alone it had produced, "oppression" and the "cry" of the distressed. His pleasant plan; : literally, the plant of his delights ; i.e. the plantation in which he had so long taken delight. He looked for judgment, etc. Gesenius has attempted to give the verbal antithesis of the Hebrew, which is quite lost in our version—

"Er harrete auf Recht, und siehe da Unrecht,

Auf Gerechtigkeit, und siehe da Schlechtigkeit."