Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Isaiah 5:2
He gathered — He removed all hindrances, and gave them all the means of fruitfulness. A tower — For the residence of the keepers.
He gathered — He removed all hindrances, and gave them all the means of fruitfulness. A tower — For the residence of the keepers.
Verse Isaiah 5:2. _AND GATHERED OUT THE STONES_ - "And he cleared it from the stones"] This was agreeable to the husbandry: "Saxa, summa parte terrae, et vites et arbores laeduct; ima parte refrigera...
AND HE FENCED IT - Margin, ‘Made a wall about it.’ The word used here is supposed rather to mean “to dig about, to grub,” as with a pick-axe or spade. - “Gesenius.” It has this signification in Arabic...
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)_...
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...
VINE. For Israel as this vine, See Isaiah 27:2; Jeremiah 2:21; Jeremiah 12:10; Psalms 80:8;...
AND HE FENCED IT, &C.— The state of the vineyard, with respect to the benefits conferred upon it by God, is described in the latter part of the first, and the former part of this verse; the consequenc...
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...
And he fenced it, and gathered out the stones thereof, and planted it with the choicest vine, and built a tower in the midst of it, and also made a winepress therein: and he looked that it should bri...
1-24. Judah, God's unfruitful vineyard, and the judgment upon it....
TOWER] watch-tower: see on Isaiah 1:8. 3F. God speaks....
The ‘friend’ means God. The *vineyard means God’s special people, whom he chose. The *vineyard should have produced wonderful red *grapes. The soil was very good. God had made all possible preparation...
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...
AND HE FENCED IT. — In the “fence” we may recognise the law and institutions of Israel which kept it as a separate people (Eph. Ii. 14); in the “stones” that were gathered out, the removal of the old...
וַֽ יְעַזְּקֵ֣הוּ וַֽ יְסַקְּלֵ֗הוּ וַ יִּטָּעֵ֨הוּ֙...
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...
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...
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...
And he dug it, and removed its stones, and planted it with the choicest vine, (d) and built a tower in the midst of it, and also made a winepress in it: and he expected that it should bring forth grap...
_Stones. They burn and starve in different seasons, Colossians xii. 3. --- Choicest. Hebrew sorek. (Haydock) --- There was a famous valley of this name, Judges xvi. 4. The angels guarded the vineyard,...
Observe how God speaks of the church, and the blessedness of it. First its situation, in a very fruitful hill: secondly, its security from enemies of every kind, it is walled around: thirdly, the soil...
_A DISAPPOINTING VINTAGE_ ‘He looked that it should bring forth grapes, and it brought forth wild grapes.’ Isaiah 5:2 I. CONSIDER THE DISTINGUISHING FEATURES WHICH, IN GOD’S ALLEGORY, SEPARATE THE...
2._And he fenced it. _The incessant care and watchfulness of God in dressing his vine are asserted by the Prophet, as if he had said, that God has neglected nothing that could be expected from the bes...
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...
AND HE FENCED IT,.... With good and wholesome laws, which distinguished them, and kept them separate from other nations; also with his almighty power and providence; especially at the three yearly fes...
_And he fenced it, and gathered out the stones thereof, and planted it with the choicest vine, and built a tower in the midst of it, and also made a winepress therein: and he looked that it should bri...
_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...
and He fenced it, rather, spaded or hoed it thoroughly, AND GATHERED OUT THE STONES THEREOF, which hindered the proper cultivation of the ground, AND PLANTED IT WITH THE CHOICEST VINE, a very fine Ori...
THE DISAPPOINTMENT OF THE VINEYARD...
VERY FRUITFUL HILL: _ Heb._ the horn of the son of oil FENCED IT: Or, made a wall about it MADE: _ Heb._ hewed...
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...
FENCED IT, that neither men nor beasts might spoil it. GATHERED OUT THE STONES THEREOF; which otherwise would have marred the land; of which see 2 KINGS 3:19. The sense is, He removed all hinderances,...
Isaiah 5:2 up H5823 (H8762) stones H5619 (H8762) planted H5193 (H8799) vine H8321 built H1129 ...
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...
Isaiah 5:2 To us God says, as to Israel of old, "What more could I do to My vineyard that I have not done? Why, then, when I looked for grapes, brought it forth wild grapes?" Is not this indictment t...
Isaiah 5:1 I. "He looked that it should bring forth grapes." This is surely not unreasonable. It is exactly what you and I should do. It will not be denied by anybody that _we_are receiving the highes...
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...
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...
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...
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
_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...
_It brought forth wild grapes_ WILD GRAPES The history of the Jewish nation is written for our warning, and the lessons taught by this parable are sadly needed by the England of today. There is not...
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...
ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 5:2 God supplied everything for his people to be a blessing to the world, as he had promised in Genesis 12:1....
DIVINE DISAPPOINTMENTS Isaiah 5:2. _He looked that it should bring forth grapes, and it brought forth wild grapes_. “I believe in God.” Which God? The God constructed for us by philosophers, who is i...
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...
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...
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...
1 Corinthians 9:7; Deuteronomy 32:32; Deuteronomy 32:33; Deuteronomy 32:6;...