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Isaiah 5:6

And I will lay it waste: it shall not be pruned, nor digged; but there shall come up briers and thorns: I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it.

I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it. The parable is partly dropped, and Yahweh, as in , is implied to be the Owner; for He alone, not an ordinary farmer (; ), could give such a "command."

No rain - antitypically, the heaven-sent teachings of the prophets (). Not accomplished in the Babylonian captivity; for Jeremiah, Ezekiel, Daniel, Haggai, and Zechariah prophesied during or after it; but in Gospel times.

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See also Isaiah 5:6 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse 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 בו שמור _bo shamir_, which is confirmed by t...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    I WILL LAY IT WASTE ... - The description here is continued from Isaiah 5:5. The image is carried out, and means that the Jews should be left utterly without protection. I WILL ALSO COMMAND THE CLOUDS...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    CHAPTER 5 The Song of the Vineyard and the Six Woes 1. _The song of the vineyard and Jehovah's lament (Isaiah 5:1)_ 2. _The judgment upon the vineyard (Isaiah 5:5)_ 3. _The wild grapes (Isaiah 5:8)_...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    THE PARABLE OF THE THANKLESS VINEYARD. Isaiah probably at a vintage festival, when Judæ ans from the country (Isaiah 5:3), as well as the inhabitants of Jerusalem, are present, comes forward as a mins...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    I WILL, &C. Reference to Pentateuch (Deuteronomy 28:23; Deuteronomy 28:24.Leviticus 26:19; Leviticus 26:19)....

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    CHAPTER FIVE C. THE IMPRECATION OF ABANDONMENT Isaiah 5:1-30 1. THE WORDS OF ACCUSATION TEXT: Isaiah 5:1-7 1 Let me sing for my well-beloved a song of my beloved touching his vineyard. My well-b...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    5:6 cultivated, (b-15) Or 'hoed.' the word apparently means 'to gather the earth about the roots, while removing weeds.' see ch. 7.25....

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    1-24. Judah, God's unfruitful vineyard, and the judgment upon it....

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    Like the *vineyard in the story, God’s special people have been a bitter disappointment to him. God now removes all his protection and care. The result is terrible. *SELF-CENTRED PEOPLE V8 *Woe to...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    ISAIAH: GOD CONTROLS THE NATIONS ISAIAH DECLARES HOW GOD’S PEOPLE SHOULD BE LIVING ISAIAH CHAPTER S 1 TO 9 _NORMAN HILLYER_ CHAPTER 5 Chapter 5 begins with a parable (a story with a double mean...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    THERE SHALL COME UP BRIERS AND THORNS. — The picture of desolation is still part of a parable. The “briers and thorns” (both the words are peculiar to Isaiah) are the base and unworthy who take the pl...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וַ אֲשִׁיתֵ֣הוּ בָתָ֗ה לֹ֤א יִזָּמֵר֙ וְ לֹ֣א

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    CHAPTER III THE VINEYARD OF THE LORD, OR TRUE PATRIOTISM THE CONSCIENCE OF OUR COUNTRY'S SINS 735 B.C. Isaiah 5:1; Isaiah 9:8 - Isaiah 10:4 THE prophecy contained in these Chapter s belongs, as we...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    A DISAPPOINTING HARVEST Isaiah 5:1-17 In a picture of great beauty, Isaiah describes a vineyard situated on one of the sunny heights visible from Jerusalem. Every care which an experienced vine-dress...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    With the thought of judgment, and the necessity for it still in mind, the prophet utters his great denunciation. This falls into three parts. The first is a song of accusation. By the simple and famil...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _It. During the whole of the captivity, the land might keep its sabbaths, Leviticus xxvi. 34. (Calmet) --- The people shall be deprived of saving doctrine. (Menochius)_...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    Was not this awful judgment actually inflicted, when Israel became unchurched at the siege of Jerusalem? That it is more than a parable, this passage fully explains. And, therefore, there is no period...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    6._I will lay it waste. _God will not take pains to dig and prune it, and consequently it will become barren for want of dressing; _briars and thorns _will spring up to choke its branches; and, what i...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    After this the Spirit of God begins to plead with the people, taking two distinct grounds-namely, that which God had done for His people, and the coming of Jehovah in the Person of Christ in glory. Ha...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    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 ma...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    And I will lay it waste: it shall not be pruned, nor digged; but there shall come up briers and thorns: I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it. Ver. 6. _And I will lay it waste...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _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...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    and I will lay it waste, for a complete ruin; IT SHALL NOT BE PRUNED, to remove the superfluous shoots, NOR DIGGED, to loosen the ground for the admission of air to the roots; BUT THERE SHALL COME UP...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THE DISAPPOINTMENT OF THE VINEYARD...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    1-7 Christ is God's beloved Son, and our beloved Saviour. The care of the Lord over the church of Israel, is described by the management of a vineyard. The advantages of our situation will be brought...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    IT SHALL NOT BE PRUNED NOR DIGGED: vine-dressers use to dig up and open the earth about the roots of the vines, for divers good purposes. The meaning is. I will remove my ministers, who used great car...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Isaiah 5:6 lay H7896 (H8799) waste H1326 pruned H2168 (H8735) dug H5737 (H8735) up H5927 ...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    GOD'S FRUITLESS VINEYARD (ISAIAH 5:1). In the first few verses we find a song, which was possibly sung by Isaiah at the celebration of the vintage harvest, as he gathered with men who were singing vin...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    Isaiah 5:1. _Now will I sing to my well-beloved a song of my beloved touching his vineyard. My Well-beloved hath a vineyard in a very fruitful hill:_ The Song of the Vineyard is by no means a joyful...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    Isaiah 5:1. _Now will I sing to my wellbeloved a song of my beloved touching his vineyard. My wellbeloved hath a vineyard in a very fruitful hill:_ You and I, dear friends, are placed in a position w...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Parable of Jehovah's vineyard and the six woes upon Israel. CHARACTERS: God. CONCLUSION: God expects vineyard fruit from those who enjoy vineyard privileges, not the mere leaves of profess...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Isaiah 5:1. _My well-beloved;_ the Messiah, who certainly was Lord of the Vineyard, and the men of Judah were his pleasant plants. Psalms 80:14; Ezekiel 17:6; Ho

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _What could have been done more to My vineyard that I have not done in it?_ HUMAN RESPONSIBILITY AND DIVINE GRACE I. In any attempt at the interpretation of the story and the exhibition of its moral...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Now will I sing to my well-beloved_ HOPES CONCERNING THE VINEYARD The Lord’s hopes and disappointment with His vineyard. (_A. B. Davidson, LL. D._) TRUTH TO BE PRESENTED IN VARIED FORM Aaron’s be...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 5:1 Isaiah’s introductory diagnosis of Judah’s spiritual decline (chs. Isaiah 1:1) concludes with a description of his generation’s apostasy and its consequences. The chapter is...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    A SAD CANTICLE Isaiah 5:4. _What could have been done more to my vineyard? &c._ There are certain epochs in the history of the Church when on every hand may be seen the saddest indifference. This sta...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    THE PARABLE OF THE VINEYARD Isaiah 5:1. _Now will I sing, &c._ I. THE PRIVILEGES CONFERRED ON THE JEWISH NATION (Isaiah 5:2). It would be vain and useless to attempt, as some have done, to find in th...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION ISAIAH 5:1 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...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Now in the fifth chapter the Lord takes up the parable of a vineyard in which He likens Judah or Israel, His people, unto a vineyard. Now will I sing to my well-beloved a song of my beloved touching...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    2 Chronicles 36:19; Amos 4:7; Deuteronomy 28:23; Deuteronomy 28:24;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Nor digged — Vine — dressers use to dig up and open the earth about the roots of the vines. The meaning is, I will remove my ministers, who used great care and diligence to make you fruitful. Thorns —...

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