Isaiah 5
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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:
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.

fenced it. or, made a wall about it

Exodus 33:16 For wherein shall it be known here that I and your people have found …

Numbers 23:9 For from the top of the rocks I see him, and from the hills I behold …

Deuteronomy 32:8,9 When the Most High divided to the nations their inheritance, when …

Psalm 44:1-3 We have heard with our ears, O God, our fathers have told us, what …

Romans 9:4 Who are Israelites; to whom pertains the adoption, and the glory, …

planted

Jeremiah 2:21 Yet I had planted you a noble vine, wholly a right seed: how then …

the choicest vine. Sorek, in Arabic, sharik, certainly denotes an excellent vine; but some with Bp. Lowth, retain it as a proper name. Sorek was a valley lying between Askelon and Gaza, so called from the excellence of its vines.

Judges 16:4 And it came to pass afterward, that he loved a woman in the valley …

and built

Isaiah 1:8 And the daughter of Zion is left as a cottage in a vineyard, as a …

Micah 4:8 And you, O tower of the flock, the strong hold of the daughter of …

made. Heb. hewed
a winepress

Isaiah 63:2,3 Why are you red in your apparel, and your garments like him that …

Nehemiah 13:15 In those days saw I in Judah some treading wine presses on the sabbath, …

Revelation 14:18-20 And another angel came out from the altar, which had power over fire; …

he looked

Isaiah 5:7 For the vineyard of the LORD of hosts is the house of Israel, and …

Isaiah 1:2-4,21-23 Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth: for the LORD has spoken, …

Deuteronomy 32:6 Do you thus requite the LORD, O foolish people and unwise? is not …

Matthew 21:34 And when the time of the fruit drew near, he sent his servants to …

Mark 11:13 And seeing a fig tree afar off having leaves, he came, if haply he …

Mark 12:1 And he began to speak to them by parables. A certain man planted …

Luke 13:7 Then said he to the dresser of his vineyard, Behold, these three …

Luke 20:10 And at the season he sent a servant to the farmers, that they should …

1 Corinthians 9:7 Who goes a warfare any time at his own charges? who plants a vineyard, …

wild grapes

Deuteronomy 32:32,33 For their vine is of the vine of Sodom, and of the fields of Gomorrah: …

Hosea 10:1 Israel is an empty vine, he brings forth fruit to himself: according …

And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem, and men of Judah, judge, I pray you, betwixt me and my vineyard.
What could have been done more to my vineyard, that I have not done in it? wherefore, when I looked that it should bring forth grapes, brought it forth wild grapes?
And now go to; I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard: I will take away the hedge thereof, and it shall be eaten up; and break down the wall thereof, and it shall be trodden down:

go to

Genesis 11:4,7 And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top …

I will take

Isaiah 27:10,11 Yet the defended city shall be desolate, and the habitation forsaken, …

Leviticus 26:31-35 And I will make your cities waste, and bring your sanctuaries to …

Deuteronomy 28:49-52 The LORD shall bring a nation against you from far, from the end …

2 Chronicles 36:4-10 And the king of Egypt made Eliakim his brother king over Judah and …

Nehemiah 2:3 And said to the king, Let the king live for ever: why should not …

Psalm 74:1-10 O God, why have you cast us off for ever? why does your anger smoke …

Psalm 80:12-16 Why have you then broken down her hedges, so that all they which …

Lamentations 1:2-9 She weeps sore in the night, and her tears are on her cheeks: among …

Lamentations 4:12 The kings of the earth, and all the inhabitants of the world…

trodden down. Heb. for a treading

Isaiah 10:6 I will send him against an hypocritical nation, and against the people …

Isaiah 25:10 For in this mountain shall the hand of the LORD rest, and Moab shall …

Isaiah 28:3,18 The crown of pride, the drunkards of Ephraim, shall be trodden under feet…

Lamentations 1:15 The LORD has trodden under foot all my mighty men in the middle of …

Daniel 8:13 Then I heard one saint speaking, and another saint said to that certain …

Luke 21:24 And they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and shall be led away …

Revelation 11:2 But the court which is without the temple leave out, and measure …

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 lay

Isaiah 5:9,10 In my ears said the LORD of hosts, Of a truth many houses shall be …

Isaiah 6:11,12 Then said I, Lord, how long? And he answered, Until the cities be …

Isaiah 24:1-3,12 Behold, the LORD makes the earth empty, and makes it waste, and turns …

Isaiah 32:13,14 On the land of my people shall come up thorns and briers; yes, on …

Leviticus 26:33-35 And I will scatter you among the heathen, and will draw out a sword …

Deuteronomy 29:23 And that the whole land thereof is brimstone, and salt, and burning, …

2 Chronicles 36:19-21 And they burnt the house of God, and broke down the wall of Jerusalem, …

Jeremiah 25:11 And this whole land shall be a desolation, and an astonishment; and …

Jeremiah 45:4 Thus shall you say to him, The LORD said thus; Behold, that which …

Luke 21:24 And they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and shall be led away …

it shall

Isaiah 7:23-25 And it shall come to pass in that day, that every place shall be, …

Hosea 3:4 For the children of Israel shall abide many days without a king, …

also

Isaiah 30:23 Then shall he give the rain of your seed, that you shall sow the …

Deuteronomy 28:23,24 And your heaven that is over your head shall be brass, and the earth …

Amos 4:7 And also I have withheld the rain from you, when there were yet three …

Zechariah 14:16,17 And it shall come to pass…

Hebrews 6:6-8 If they shall fall away, to renew them again to repentance; seeing …

Revelation 11:6 These have power to shut heaven, that it rain not in the days of …

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.

the vineyard

Psalm 80:8-11,15 You have brought a vine out of Egypt: you have cast out the heathen, …

Jeremiah 12:10 Many pastors have destroyed my vineyard, they have trodden my portion …

his pleasant plant. Heb. plant of his pleasures

Isaiah 62:5 For as a young man marries a virgin, so shall your sons marry you: …

Psalm 147:11 The LORD takes pleasure in them that fear him, in those that hope in his mercy.

Psalm 149:4 For the LORD takes pleasure in his people: he will beautify the meek …

Songs 7:6 How fair and how pleasant are you, O love, for delights!

Zephaniah 3:17 The LORD your God in the middle of you is mighty; he will save, he …

he looked

Isaiah 5:2 And he fenced it, and gathered out the stones thereof, and planted …

Isaiah 58:6-8 Is not this the fast that I have chosen? to loose the bands of wickedness, …

Exodus 22:22-27 You shall not afflict any widow, or fatherless child…

Micah 6:8 He has showed you, O man, what is good; and what does the LORD require …

Zechariah 7:9-14 Thus speaks the LORD of hosts, saying, Execute true judgment, and …

Matthew 3:8-10 Bring forth therefore fruits meet for repentance…

Matthew 23:23 Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you pay tithe …

John 15:2 Every branch in me that bears not fruit he takes away: and every …

1 Corinthians 6:8-11 No, you do wrong, and defraud, and that your brothers…

1 John 3:7,8 Little children, let no man deceive you: he that does righteousness …

but. The paronomasia, or play of words, is very remarkable here: he looked for mishpat, judgment, but behold mispach, oppression; for tzedakah, justice, but behold tzedkah, a cry.

oppression. Heb. a scab

Isaiah 1:6 From the sole of the foot even to the head there is no soundness …

Isaiah 3:17 Therefore the LORD will smite with a scab the crown of the head of …

a cry

Genesis 4:10 And he said, What have you done? the voice of your brother's blood …

Exodus 2:23,24 And it came to pass in process of time, that the king of Egypt died: …

Exodus 3:7 And the LORD said, I have surely seen the affliction of my people …

Exodus 22:21-24,27 You shall neither vex a stranger, nor oppress him: for you were strangers …

Deuteronomy 15:9 Beware that there be not a thought in your wicked heart, saying, …

Nehemiah 5:1-5 And there was a great cry of the people and of their wives against …

Job 31:38,39 If my land cry against me, or that the furrows likewise thereof complain…

Job 34:28 So that they cause the cry of the poor to come to him, and he hears …

Proverbs 21:13 Whoever stops his ears at the cry of the poor, he also shall cry …

Luke 18:7 And shall not God avenge his own elect, which cry day and night to …

James 5:4 Behold, the hire of the laborers who have reaped down your fields, …

Woe unto them that join house to house, that lay field to field, till there be no place, that they may be placed alone in the midst of the earth!
In mine ears said the LORD of hosts, Of a truth many houses shall be desolate, even great and fair, without inhabitant.
Yea, ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and the seed of an homer shall yield an ephah.
Woe unto them that rise up early in the morning, that they may follow strong drink; that continue until night, till wine inflame them!
And the harp, and the viol, the tabret, and pipe, and wine, are in their feasts: but they regard not the work of the LORD, neither consider the operation of his hands.
Therefore my people are gone into captivity, because they have no knowledge: and their honourable men are famished, and their multitude dried up with thirst.

my people

Isaiah 1:7 Your country is desolate, your cities are burned with fire: your …

Isaiah 42:22-25 But this is a people robbed and spoiled; they are all of them snared …

2 Kings 17:6 In the ninth year of Hoshea the king of Assyria took Samaria, and …

2 Chronicles 28:5-8 Why the LORD his God delivered him into the hand of the king of Syria; …

because

Isaiah 1:3 The ox knows his owner, and the donkey his master's crib: but Israel …

Isaiah 27:11 When the boughs thereof are withered, they shall be broken off: the …

Jeremiah 8:7 Yes, the stork in the heaven knows her appointed times; and the turtle …

Hosea 4:6 My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because you have rejected …

Matthew 23:16-27 Woe to you, you blind guides, which say, Whoever shall swear by the …

Luke 19:44 And shall lay you even with the ground, and your children within …

John 3:19,20 And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, …

Romans 1:28 And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God …

2 Peter 3:5 For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God …

honourable men are famished. Heb. glory are men of famine

Jeremiah 14:18 If I go forth into the field, then behold the slain with the sword! …

Lamentations 4:4,5,9 The tongue of the sucking child sticks to the roof of his mouth for …

multitude

Jeremiah 14:3 And their nobles have sent their little ones to the waters: they …

Amos 8:13 In that day shall the fair virgins and young men faint for thirst.

Therefore hell hath enlarged herself, and opened her mouth without measure: and their glory, and their multitude, and their pomp, and he that rejoiceth, shall descend into it.

hell

Isaiah 14:9 Hell from beneath is moved for you to meet you at your coming: it …

Isaiah 30:33 For Tophet is ordained of old; yes, for the king it is prepared; …

Psalm 49:14 Like sheep they are laid in the grave; death shall feed on them; …

Proverbs 27:20 Hell and destruction are never full; so the eyes of man are never satisfied.

Ezekiel 32:18-30 Son of man, wail for the multitude of Egypt, and cast them down, …

Habakkuk 2:5 Yes also, because he transgresses by wine, he is a proud man, neither …

Matthew 7:13 Enter you in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad …

Revelation 20:13-15 And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and hell …

opened

Numbers 16:30-34 But if the LORD make a new thing, and the earth open her mouth, and …

Proverbs 1:12 Let us swallow them up alive as the grave; and whole, as those that …

he that rejoiceth

Isaiah 21:4 My heart panted, fearfulness affrighted me: the night of my pleasure …

1 Samuel 25:36-38 And Abigail came to Nabal; and, behold, he held a feast in his house, …

2 Samuel 13:28,29 Now Absalom had commanded his servants, saying, Mark you now when …

Psalm 55:15 Let death seize on them, and let them go down quick into hell: for …

Daniel 5:3-6,30 Then they brought the golden vessels that were taken out of the temple …

Nahum 1:10 For while they be entwined together as thorns, and while they are …

Luke 12:19,20 And I will say to my soul, Soul, you have much goods laid up for …

Luke 16:20-23 And there was a certain beggar named Lazarus, which was laid at his …

Luke 17:27 They did eat, they drank, they married wives, they were given in …

Luke 21:34 And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged …

Acts 12:21-23 And on a set day Herod, arrayed in royal apparel, sat on his throne, …

And the mean man shall be brought down, and the mighty man shall be humbled, and the eyes of the lofty shall be humbled:
But the LORD of hosts shall be exalted in judgment, and God that is holy shall be sanctified in righteousness.

the Lord

Isaiah 12:4 And in that day shall you say, Praise the LORD, call on his name, …

1 Chronicles 29:11 Yours, O LORD is the greatness, and the power, and the glory, and …

Psalm 9:16 The LORD is known by the judgment which he executes: the wicked is …

Psalm 21:13 Be you exalted, LORD, in your own strength: so will we sing and praise …

Psalm 46:10 Be still, and know that I am God: I will be exalted among the heathen, …

Ezekiel 28:22 And say, Thus said the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against you, O Zidon; …

Ezekiel 38:23 Thus will I magnify myself, and sanctify myself; and I will be known …

Romans 2:5 But after your hardness and impenitent heart treasure up to yourself …

Revelation 19:1-5 And after these things I heard a great voice of much people in heaven, …

God that is holy. or, the holy God. Heb. the God the holy

Isaiah 6:3 And one cried to another, and said, Holy, holy, holy, is the LORD …

Isaiah 57:15 For thus said the high and lofty One that inhabits eternity, whose …

Revelation 3:7 And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write; These things …

Revelation 4:8 And the four beasts had each of them six wings about him; and they …

Revelation 15:3,4 And they sing the song of Moses the servant of God, and the song …

sanctified

Isaiah 8:13 Sanctify the LORD of hosts himself; and let him be your fear, and …

Isaiah 29:23 But when he sees his children, the work of my hands, in the middle …

Leviticus 10:3 Then Moses said to Aaron, This is it that the LORD spoke, saying, …

Ezekiel 36:23 And I will sanctify my great name, which was profaned among the heathen, …

1 Peter 1:16 Because it is written, Be you holy; for I am holy.

1 Peter 2:15 For so is the will of God, that with well doing you may put to silence …

Then shall the lambs feed after their manner, and the waste places of the fat ones shall strangers eat.

shall the lambs

Isaiah 7:21,22,25 And it shall come to pass in that day, that a man shall nourish a …

Isaiah 17:2 The cities of Aroer are forsaken: they shall be for flocks, which …

Isaiah 32:14 Because the palaces shall be forsaken; the multitude of the city …

Isaiah 40:11 He shall feed his flock like a shepherd: he shall gather the lambs …

Isaiah 65:10 And Sharon shall be a fold of flocks, and the valley of Achor a place …

Zephaniah 2:6,14 And the sea coast shall be dwellings and cottages for shepherds, …

the waste

Isaiah 10:16 Therefore shall the Lord, the Lord of hosts, send among his fat ones leanness…

Deuteronomy 32:15 But Jeshurun waxed fat, and kicked: you are waxen fat, you are grown …

Psalm 17:10,14 They are enclosed in their own fat: with their mouth they speak proudly…

Psalm 73:7 Their eyes stand out with fatness: they have more than heart could wish.

Psalm 119:70 Their heart is as fat as grease; but I delight in your law.

Jeremiah 5:28 They are waxen fat, they shine: yes, they overpass the deeds of the …

Amos 4:1-3 Hear this word, you cows of Bashan, that are in the mountain of Samaria, …

strangers

Isaiah 1:7 Your country is desolate, your cities are burned with fire: your …

Deuteronomy 28:33 The fruit of your land, and all your labors, shall a nation which …

Nehemiah 9:37 And it yields much increase to the kings whom you have set over us …

Lamentations 5:2 Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens.

Hosea 8:7 For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind: it …

Luke 21:24 And they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and shall be led away …

Woe unto them that draw iniquity with cords of vanity, and sin as it were with a cart rope:
That say, Let him make speed, and hasten his work, that we may see it: and let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel draw nigh and come, that we may know it!
Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!
Woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight!
Woe unto them that are mighty to drink wine, and men of strength to mingle strong drink:
Which justify the wicked for reward, and take away the righteousness of the righteous from him!
Therefore as the fire devoureth the stubble, and the flame consumeth the chaff, so their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust: because they have cast away the law of the LORD of hosts, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.

fire. Heb. tongue of fire
devoureth

Isaiah 47:14 Behold, they shall be as stubble; the fire shall burn them; they …

Exodus 15:7 And in the greatness of your excellency you have overthrown them …

Joel 2:5 Like the noise of chariots on the tops of mountains shall they leap, …

Nahum 1:10 For while they be entwined together as thorns, and while they are …

Malachi 4:1 For, behold, the day comes, that shall burn as an oven; and all the …

1 Corinthians 3:12,13 Now if any man build on this foundation gold, silver, precious stones, …

the flame

Matthew 3:12 Whose fan is in his hand, and he will thoroughly purge his floor, …

Luke 3:17 Whose fan is in his hand, and he will thoroughly purge his floor, …

their root

Isaiah 9:14-17 Therefore the LORD will cut off from Israel head and tail, branch …

Job 18:16 His roots shall be dried up beneath, and above shall his branch be cut off.

Hosea 9:16 Ephraim is smitten, their root is dried up, they shall bear no fruit: …

Amos 2:9 Yet destroyed I the Amorite before them, whose height was like the …

cast away

1 Samuel 15:23,26 For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as …

2 Kings 17:14,15 Notwithstanding they would not hear, but hardened their necks, like …

Nehemiah 9:26 Nevertheless they were disobedient, and rebelled against you, and …

Psalm 50:17 Seeing you hate instruction, and casts my words behind you.

Jeremiah 6:19 Hear, O earth: behold, I will bring evil on this people, even the …

Jeremiah 8:9 The wise men are ashamed, they are dismayed and taken: see, they …

Luke 7:30 But the Pharisees and lawyers rejected the counsel of God against …

John 12:48 He that rejects me, and receives not my words, has one that judges …

Hebrews 10:28,29 He that despised Moses' law died without mercy under two or three witnesses…

despised

Isaiah 30:12 Why thus said the Holy One of Israel, Because you despise this word, …

2 Samuel 12:9,10 Why have you despised the commandment of the LORD, to do evil in …

Luke 10:16 He that hears you hears me; and he that despises you despises me; …

Acts 13:41 Behold, you despisers, and wonder, and perish: for I work a work …

1 Thessalonians 4:9 But as touching brotherly love you need not that I write to you: …

Therefore is the anger of the LORD kindled against his people, and he hath stretched forth his hand against them, and hath smitten them: and the hills did tremble, and their carcases were torn in the midst of the streets. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.

the anger

Deuteronomy 31:17 Then my anger shall be kindled against them in that day, and I will …

Deuteronomy 32:19-22 And when the LORD saw it, he abhorred them, because of the provoking …

2 Kings 13:3 And the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel, and he delivered …

2 Kings 22:13-17 Go you, inquire of the LORD for me, and for the people, and for all …

2 Chronicles 36:16 But they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words, and …

Psalm 106:40 Therefore was the wrath of the LORD kindled against his people, so …

Lamentations 2:1-3 How has the LORD covered the daughter of Zion with a cloud in his …

Lamentations 5:22 But you have utterly rejected us; you are very wroth against us.

1 Thessalonians 2:16 Forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they might be saved, …

stretched

Isaiah 14:26,27 This is the purpose that is purposed on the whole earth: and this …

the hills

Psalm 18:7 Then the earth shook and trembled; the foundations also of the hills …

Psalm 68:8 The earth shook, the heavens also dropped at the presence of God: …

Psalm 77:18 The voice of your thunder was in the heaven: the lightning lightened …

Psalm 114:7 Tremble, you earth, at the presence of the Lord, at the presence …

Jeremiah 4:24 I beheld the mountains, and, see, they trembled, and all the hills …

Micah 1:4 And the mountains shall be molten under him, and the valleys shall …

Nahum 1:5 The mountains quake at him, and the hills melt, and the earth is …

Habakkuk 3:10 The mountains saw you, and they trembled: the overflowing of the …

Revelation 20:11 And I saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it, from whose …

torn. or, as dung

1 Kings 14:11 Him that dies of Jeroboam in the city shall the dogs eat; and him …

1 Kings 16:4 Him that dies of Baasha in the city shall the dogs eat; and him that …

1 Kings 21:24 Him that dies of Ahab in the city the dogs shall eat; and him that …

2 Kings 9:37 And the carcass of Jezebel shall be as dung on the face of the field …

Psalm 83:10 Which perished at Endor: they became as dung for the earth.

Jeremiah 8:2 And they shall spread them before the sun, and the moon, and all …

Jeremiah 9:22 Speak, Thus said the LORD, Even the carcasses of men shall fall as …

Jeremiah 15:3 And I will appoint over them four kinds, said the LORD: the sword …

Jeremiah 16:4 They shall die of grievous deaths; they shall not be lamented; neither …

Zephaniah 1:17 And I will bring distress on men, that they shall walk like blind …

for all

Isaiah 9:12,13,17,21 The Syrians before, and the Philistines behind; and they shall devour …

Isaiah 10:4 Without me they shall bow down under the prisoners, and they shall …

Leviticus 26:14 But if you will not listen to me, and will not do all these commandments;

Psalm 78:38 But he, being full of compassion, forgave their iniquity, and destroyed …

Daniel 9:16 O LORD, according to all your righteousness, I beseech you, let your …

Hosea 14:4 I will heal their backsliding, I will love them freely: for my anger …

And he will lift up an ensign to the nations from far, and will hiss unto them from the end of the earth: and, behold, they shall come with speed swiftly:
None shall be weary nor stumble among them; none shall slumber nor sleep; neither shall the girdle of their loins be loosed, nor the latchet of their shoes be broken:
Whose arrows are sharp, and all their bows bent, their horses' hoofs shall be counted like flint, and their wheels like a whirlwind:
Their roaring shall be like a lion, they shall roar like young lions: yea, they shall roar, and lay hold of the prey, and shall carry it away safe, and none shall deliver it.
And in that day they shall roar against them like the roaring of the sea: and if one look unto the land, behold darkness and sorrow, and the light is darkened in the heavens thereof.
Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge by R. A. Torrey [ca. 1880]
Expanded version courtesy INT Bible ©2013, Used by permission

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