In that day: "Sing about a fruitful vineyard. In that dayThis phrase often signals a prophetic vision concerning the future, particularly the eschatological "Day of the Lord." In the Hebrew text, "in that day" (בַּיּ֣וֹם הַה֔וּא, bayyom hahu) is a common expression in prophetic literature, indicating a time when God will act decisively in history. It suggests a period of divine intervention and fulfillment of God's promises. From a conservative Christian perspective, this points to the ultimate redemption and restoration that God will bring about, aligning with the hope of Christ's return and the establishment of His kingdom. Sing
The Hebrew word used here is "שִׁירוּ" (shiru), which means to sing or to sing praises. Singing in the biblical context is often associated with joy, celebration, and worship. It reflects a response to God's mighty acts and His faithfulness. In this verse, the call to sing indicates a time of rejoicing and gratitude for God's deliverance and blessings. It is a reminder of the power of worship and the joy that comes from recognizing God's work in our lives. About a fruitful vineyard
The imagery of a vineyard is rich in biblical symbolism. In the Hebrew text, "כֶּרֶם חֶמֶד" (kerem chemed) translates to "a vineyard of delight" or "a fruitful vineyard." Vineyards in Scripture often represent God's people, Israel, and by extension, the Church. A fruitful vineyard signifies a community that is thriving, blessed, and productive under God's care. Historically, vineyards were vital to the economy and culture of ancient Israel, symbolizing prosperity and divine favor. In a spiritual sense, this phrase speaks to the flourishing of God's people when they are rooted in Him, bearing fruit through His Spirit. It is a vision of restoration and abundance, where God's people live in harmony with His will, producing the fruits of righteousness and peace. Persons / Places / Events 1. The VineyardSymbolic of God's people, often Israel, representing a place of care, cultivation, and expected fruitfulness. 2. The DayRefers to a future time of restoration and blessing, often associated with the Messianic age or the end times. 3. The SingerImplied to be those who witness or partake in God's redemptive work, possibly the redeemed community or the prophet himself. 4. The FruitfulnessRepresents the spiritual prosperity and blessings that come from being in right relationship with God. 5. The SongA metaphor for joy and celebration, indicating a time of peace and divine favor. Teaching Points God's Care and CultivationJust as a vineyard requires care, God tends to His people with love and discipline, expecting spiritual growth and fruitfulness. The Joy of RedemptionThe call to sing about a fruitful vineyard reflects the joy and celebration that comes with God's redemptive work in our lives. Fruitfulness as Evidence of FaithTrue faith in God should result in spiritual fruit, such as love, joy, peace, and other fruits of the Spirit, as evidence of a transformed life. The Importance of Abiding in ChristAs branches must remain connected to the vine to bear fruit, believers must remain in Christ through prayer, scripture, and obedience. Hope in Future RestorationThe promise of a fruitful vineyard points to the ultimate restoration and peace that God will bring, encouraging believers to remain hopeful and faithful. Bible Study Questions 1. How does the metaphor of a vineyard help us understand God's relationship with His people? 2. In what ways can we ensure that we are bearing spiritual fruit in our daily lives? 3. How does the concept of "singing about a fruitful vineyard" challenge us to reflect on our own joy and gratitude for God's work in our lives? 4. What are some practical steps we can take to abide in Christ and ensure our spiritual growth? 5. How can the promise of future restoration and blessing in Isaiah 27:2 encourage us in times of difficulty or spiritual dryness? Connections to Other Scriptures Isaiah 5:1-7This passage also uses the vineyard metaphor, but contrasts with Isaiah 27:2 by depicting a vineyard that fails to produce good fruit, leading to judgment. John 15:1-8Jesus describes Himself as the true vine, and His followers as branches, emphasizing the importance of abiding in Him to bear fruit. Psalm 80:8-16A prayer for restoration of Israel, depicted as a vine brought out of Egypt, paralleling the theme of divine care and expectation of fruitfulness. Matthew 21:33-46The parable of the tenants, where a vineyard is used to illustrate God's kingdom and the rejection of His messengers. Revelation 14:14-20Describes the harvest of the earth, symbolizing the final judgment and the gathering of God's people. People Isaiah, Israelites, JacobPlaces Assyria, Brook of Egypt, Egypt, Euphrates River, JerusalemTopics Delight, Desirable, Foaming, Fruitful, Pleasant, Pure, Red, Respond, Sing, Song, Vine-garden, Vineyard, WineDictionary of Bible Themes Isaiah 27:1 4266 sea
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9220 day of the LORD Library The Grasp that Brings Peace
'Let him take hold of My strength, that he may make peace with Me; yea, let him make peace with Me.'--ISAIAH xxvii. 5. Lyrical emotion makes the prophet's language obscure by reason of its swift transitions from one mood of feeling to another. But the main drift here is discernible. God is guarding Israel, His vineyard, and before Him its foes are weak as 'thorns and briers,' whose end is to be burned. With daring anthropomorphism, the prophet puts into God's mouth a longing for the enemies to measure …
Alexander Maclaren—Expositions of Holy ScriptureTwelfth Day for the Spirit to Convince the World of Sin
WHAT TO PRAY.--For the Spirit to convince the World of Sin "I will send the Comforter to you. And He, when He is come, will convict the world in respect of sin."--JOHN xvi. 7, 8. God's one desire, the one object of Christ's being manifested, is to take away sin. The first work of the Spirit on the world is conviction of sin. Without that, no deep or abiding revival, no powerful conversion. Pray for it, that the gospel may be preached in such power of the Spirit, that men may see that they have …
Andrew Murray—The Ministry of Intercession Come and Welcome to Jesus Christ;
OR, A PLAIN AND PROFITABLE DISCOURSE ON JOHN 6:37 SHOWING THE CAUSE, TRUTH, AND MANNER OF THE COMING OF A SINNER TO JESUS CHRIST; WITH HIS HAPPY RECEPTION AND BLESSED ENTERTAINMENT. WRITTEN BY JOHN BUNYAN, AUTHOR OF "THE PILGRIM'S PROGRESS." "And they shall come which were ready to perish."--Isaiah 27:13. London, 1681. ADVERTISEMENT BY THE EDITOR. "Come and welcome to Jesus Christ," is a subject peculiarly fitted to the deep and searching experience of John Bunyan. He knew all the wiles of sin and …
John Bunyan—The Works of John Bunyan Volumes 1-3 The Desire of the Righteous Granted;
OR, A DISCOURSE OF THE RIGHTEOUS MAN'S DESIRES. ADVERTISEMENT BY THE EDITOR As the tree is known by its fruit, so is the state of a man's heart known by his desires. The desires of the righteous are the touchstone or standard of Christian sincerity--the evidence of the new birth--the spiritual barometer of faith and grace--and the springs of obedience. Christ and him crucified is the ground of all our hopes--the foundation upon which all our desires after God and holiness are built--and the root …
John Bunyan—The Works of John Bunyan Volumes 1-3 How Shall one Make Use of Christ as the Life, when Wrestling with an Angry God Because of Sin?
That we may give some satisfaction to this question, we shall, 1. Shew what are the ingredients in this case, or what useth to concur in this distemper. 2. Shew some reasons why the Lord is pleased to dispense thus with his people. 3. Shew how Christ is life to the soul in this case. 4. Shew the believer's duty for a recovery; and, 5. Add a word or two of caution. As to the first, There may be those parts of, or ingredients in this distemper: 1. God presenting their sins unto their view, so as …
John Brown (of Wamphray)—Christ The Way, The Truth, and The Life "But we are all as an Unclean Thing, and all Our Righteousnesses are as Filthy Rags,"
Isaiah lxiv 6, 7.--"But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags," &c. This people's condition agreeth well with ours, though the Lord's dealing be very different. The confessory part of this prayer belongeth to us now; and strange it is, that there is such odds of the Lord's dispensations, when there is no difference in our conditions; always we know not how soon the complaint may be ours also. This prayer was prayed long before the judgment and captivity came …
Hugh Binning—The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning Covenanting Confers Obligation.
As it has been shown that all duty, and that alone, ought to be vowed to God in covenant, it is manifest that what is lawfully engaged to in swearing by the name of God is enjoined in the moral law, and, because of the authority of that law, ought to be performed as a duty. But it is now to be proved that what is promised to God by vow or oath, ought to be performed also because of the act of Covenanting. The performance of that exercise is commanded, and the same law which enjoins that the duties …
John Cunningham—The Ordinance of Covenanting The Mercy of God
The next attribute is God's goodness or mercy. Mercy is the result and effect of God's goodness. Psa 33:5. So then this is the next attribute, God's goodness or mercy. The most learned of the heathens thought they gave their god Jupiter two golden characters when they styled him good and great. Both these meet in God, goodness and greatness, majesty and mercy. God is essentially good in himself and relatively good to us. They are both put together in Psa 119:98. Thou art good, and doest good.' This …
Thomas Watson—A Body of Divinity The River of Egypt, Rhinocorura. The Lake of Sirbon.
Pliny writes, "From Pelusium are the intrenchments of Chabrias: mount Casius: the temple of Jupiter Casius: the tomb of Pompey the Great: Ostracine: Arabia is bounded sixty-five miles from Pelusium: soon after begins Idumea and Palestine from the rising up of the Sirbon lake." Either my eyes deceive me, while I read these things,--or mount Casius lies nearer Pelusium, than the lake of Sirbon. The maps have ill placed the Sirbon between mount Casius and Pelusium. Sirbon implies burning; the name of …
John Lightfoot—From the Talmud and Hebraica The Worst Things Work for Good to the Godly
DO not mistake me, I do not say that of their own nature the worst things are good, for they are a fruit of the curse; but though they are naturally evil, yet the wise overruling hand of God disposing and sanctifying them, they are morally good. As the elements, though of contrary qualities, yet God has so tempered them, that they all work in a harmonious manner for the good of the universe. Or as in a watch, the wheels seem to move contrary one to another, but all carry on the motions of the watch: …
Thomas Watson—A Divine Cordial What Messiah did the Jews Expect?
1. The most important point here is to keep in mind the organic unity of the Old Testament. Its predictions are not isolated, but features of one grand prophetic picture; its ritual and institutions parts of one great system; its history, not loosely connected events, but an organic development tending towards a definite end. Viewed in its innermost substance, the history of the Old Testament is not different from its typical institutions, nor yet these two from its predictions. The idea, underlying …
Alfred Edersheim—The Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah The Great Shepherd
He shall feed his flock like a shepherd; He shall gather the lambs with His arm, and carry them in His bosom, and shall gently lead those that are with young. I t is not easy for those, whose habits of life are insensibly formed by the customs of modern times, to conceive any adequate idea of the pastoral life, as obtained in the eastern countries, before that simplicity of manners, which characterized the early ages, was corrupted, by the artificial and false refinements of luxury. Wealth, in those …
John Newton—Messiah Vol. 1 Isaiah
CHAPTERS I-XXXIX Isaiah is the most regal of the prophets. His words and thoughts are those of a man whose eyes had seen the King, vi. 5. The times in which he lived were big with political problems, which he met as a statesman who saw the large meaning of events, and as a prophet who read a divine purpose in history. Unlike his younger contemporary Micah, he was, in all probability, an aristocrat; and during his long ministry (740-701 B.C., possibly, but not probably later) he bore testimony, as …
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