Isaiah 5:7

For the vineyard of the LORD of hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasant plant: and he looked for judgment, but behold oppression; for righteousness, but behold a cry. Isaiah here applies the parable. It is no mere human owner, nor a literal vineyard that is meant. FOR THE VINEYARD OF THE LORD OF HOSTS (IS) THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL - His only one (Exodus 19:5; Amos 3:2). AND THE MEN OF JUDAH HIS PLEASANT PLANT - `the plant of his delight;' just as the farmer was at pains to select the Sorek, or "choicest vine" (Isaiah 5:2), so God's election of the Jews. HE LOOKED FOR JUDGMENT - justice. But beh...

7._Truly the vineyard of Jehovah of hosts is the house of Israel. _Hitherto he spoke figuratively; now he shows what is the design of this _song_. Formerly he had threatened judgment against the Jews; now he shows that they are not only guilty, but are also held to be convicted persons; for they could not be ignorant of the benefits which they had received from God. Thou broughtest a vine from Egypt, says the Psalmist, and, having driven out the nations, plantedst it. (Psalms 80:8.) Their ingratitude was plain and manifest. Isaiah does not illustrate every part of the metaphor; nor was it necessary; for it was enough to point out what was its object. The whole nation was _the vineyard_; the individual men were _the plants_. Thus he accuses the whole body of the nation, and then every individual; so that no man could escape the universal condemnation, a

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 into the account another day. He planted it with the choicest vines; gave them a most excellent law, instituted proper ordinances. The temple was a tower, where God gave tokens of his presence. He set up his altar, to which the sacrifices should be brought; all the means of grace are denoted thereby. God expects fruit from those that enjoy privileges. Good purposes and good beginnings are good things, but not enough; there must be vineyard fruit; thoughts and affections, words and actions, agreeable to the Spirit. It brought forth bad fruit. Wild grapes are the fruits of the corrupt nature. Where grace does not work, corruption will. But the wickedness of those that profess religion, and en...

Verse Isaiah 5:7. _AND HE LOOKED FOR JUDGMENT_] The _paronomasia_, or play on the words, in this place, is very remarkable; _mishpat, mishpach,_ _tsedakah, tseakah_. There are many examples of it in the other prophets, but Isaiah seems peculiarly fond of it. See Isaiah 13:6; Isaiah 24:17; Isaiah 32:7; Isaiah 28:1; Isaiah 57:6; Isaiah 61:3;...

FOR THE VINEYARD ... - This is the application of the parable. God had treated the Jews as a farmer does a vineyard. This was “his” vineyard - the object of his faithful, unceasing care. This was his “only” vineyard; on this people alone, of all the nations of the earth, had he bestowed his special attention. HIS PLEASANT PLANT - The plant in which he delighted. As the farmer had been at the pains to plant the “sorek” Isaiah 5:2, so had God selected the ancient stock of the Jews as his own, and made the race the object of his chief attention. AND HE LOOKED FOR JUDGMENT - For justice, or righteousness. BUT BEHOLD OPPRESSION - The word rendered “oppression” means properly “shedding of blood.” In the original here, there is a remarkable “par

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 breathes throughout a tone of denunciation. There is also a want of connection between its parts, the allegory of the first section being succeeded by a series of rebukes for sins, expressed in the plainest language, and the rebukes being followed by a threat of punishment, also expressed with plainness. The resemblance of the parable with which the chapter opens to one of those delivered by our Lord, and recorded in the three synoptic Gospels, has been frequently noticed....

FOR THE VINEYARD OF THE LORD OF HOSTS IS THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL,.... This is the explication of the parable, or the accommodation and application of it to the people of Israel, by whom are meant the ten tribes; they are signified by the vineyard, which belonged to the Lord of hosts, who had chosen them to be a peculiar people to him, and had separated them from all others: AND THE MEN OF JUDAH HIS PLEASANT PLANT; they were so when first planted by the Lord; they were plants of delight, in whom he took great delight and pleasure, Deuteronomy 10:15 these design the two tribes of Judah and Benjamin, in distinction from Israel: AND HE LOOKED FOR JUDGMENT; that the poor, and the fatherless, and the widow, would have their causes judged in a righteous manner, and that justice and judgment would be executed in the land in all respects; for which such pr

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 where we have very choice opportunities of glorifying our God, we are like «a vineyard in a very fruitful hill,» most favourably placed for fruitfulness. The Well-beloved had a vineyard in a very fruitful hill: Isaiah 5:2. _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 bring forth grapes, and it brought forth wild grapes._ Is that my case? Is it your case, dear friend? Has even our religion been a false thing? Has it been like wild gra

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)_ 4. _First woe against covetousness (Isaiah 5:8)_ 5. _Second woe against fleshly lusts (Isaiah 5:11)_ 6. _Third woe against mockers (Isaiah 5:18)_ 7. Fourth woe against moral insensibility ...

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 minstrel. He sings this song of his friend's vineyard in light popular measure, making it attractive with beautiful plays upon words. He skilfully heightens the interest of his hearers, and by concealing the true nature of the vineyard he wins from them a mental self-condemnation. Then he throws off the mask and points the moral in a sentence made unforgettable by a pair of splendid assonances. The date is quite uncertain, but it may belong to the same period as Isaiah 2:6 to Isaiah 4:1 The minstrel sings of his Beloved. He had chosen for his