Isaiah 5:1-10

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 5:10

Yea, ten acres - In this verse a reason is rendered why the houses mentioned in the previous verse should become desolate. The reason is, that the land would become sterile and barren, as a divine judgment for their oppression. To what particular time the prophet refers, here, is not apparent. It is certain, however, that the land of Canaan was frequently given up to sterility. The withholding of the early and latter rains, or the neglect of cultivation from any cause, would produce this. At... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Isaiah 5:1

Isaiah 5:1. Now will I sing, &c. Bishop Lowth translates this clause, “Let me sing now a song to my beloved; a song of loves concerning his vineyard.” This is the exordium, a kind of title placed before the song; which song he records, as Moses did his, that it might be a witness for God, and against Israel. The beloved, to whom the prophet addresses the song, is the Lord of the vineyard, as appears by the latter clause of the verse, namely, God, or his Messiah, whom the prophet loved... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Isaiah 5:2

Isaiah 5:2. And he fenced it In this verse the prophet, carrying on the allegory, proceeds to express, in parabolical language, the singular favours which God had bestowed on the Jewish nation, and the peculiar care which he had taken of them. He separated them from other nations, took them into covenant with himself, gave them a variety of laws and ordinances respecting his worship and service, and became, in an especial manner, their protector and governor. Thus he fenced his vineyard;... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Isaiah 5:3-4

Isaiah 5:3-4. And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem, &c. God is here introduced as calling upon the guilty themselves to pass sentence, or judgment, in the case, and leaving it to them; because, without downright madness, they could do no other than condemn themselves; who, when they had received so many benefits from God, had been so ungrateful to him. What could have been done, &c. What work is there belonging to the office of an owner or keeper of a vineyard, which I have... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Isaiah 5:5-6

Isaiah 5:5-6. And now I will tell you, &c. He graciously warns them beforehand, that they may have space and encouragement to repent, and so to prevent the threatened miseries. I will take away the hedge thereof, &c. I will withdraw my presence and protection from you, and give you up into the hands of your enemies. I will lay it waste It shall be overrun by heathen and infidels, and shall no longer bear the form of a vineyard. It shall not be pruned nor digged Vine-dressers... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Isaiah 5:7

Isaiah 5:7. For the vineyard, &c. Or rather, Now the vineyard, as Dr. Waterland renders it: here we have the interpretation of the preceding parable in general. In the subsequent verses the prophet enters into particulars. This general interpretation is fully verified by the history of the Jewish people, especially in the time of our Lord and his apostles: and the men of Judah his pleasant plant In whom God formerly delighted; and he looked for judgment Both the administration of... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Isaiah 5:8-10

Isaiah 5:8-10. Wo unto them, &c. The unfolding of the parable, after the general key in the preceding verse, comprehends two things, according to the argument of the parable; the crimes of this ungrateful people, and the punishment decreed to their crimes. That join house to house That add new purchases of houses and lands to their former possessions. Not that this was in itself absolutely unlawful, but because they did it from an inordinate desire of riches, and with the injury of... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Isaiah 5:1-30

God’s love and Judah’s response (5:1-30)Judah and Israel together are likened to God’s vineyard. God did everything possible to make it healthy, beautiful and fruitful, and he expected a good harvest of grapes, but the people brought God none of the fruit he expected (5:1-4). He therefore will cease to care for them, so that they might be left to suffer whatever ruin their sin brings upon them. Israel has already been destroyed and Judah will now follow (5-7).Examples of the sins that brought... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Isaiah 5:1

a song. Eight sentences describe the vineyard, of which seven give the characteristics, and one (Isaiah 5:7 ) the result. This "song" sets forth the doom of the Vineyard: the Parable (Luke 20:9-16 ), the doom of the husbandmen. hath = had. a very fruitful = oil's son. Can it refer to David and his anointing? Compare 1 Samuel 2:10 ; 1 Samuel 16:13 ; Psalms 132:7 . Compare Isaiah 5:7 -, below. hill = horn. Hebrew. keren, always "horn" (seventy-five times). Only "hill" here. read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Isaiah 5:2

vine. For Israel as this vine, See Isaiah 27:2-6 . Jeremiah 2:21 ; Jeremiah 12:10 . Psalms 80:8 . Hosea 10:1 ; Hosea 14:6-7 , &c. One of the three trees to which Israel is likened: the fig = national privilege; the olive = religious privilege; the vine = spiritual privilege. See note on Judges 9:8-13 , tower = a watchtower. winepress = wine-vat. Hebrew. yekeb, not gath, a winepress. See note on Proverbs 3:10 . wild grapes = bad grapes. Hebrew. beushim, from bashash, to stink. The... read more

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