Isaiah 5:3

Green's Literal Translation

And now, O people of Jerusalem and men of Judah, I ask you, judge between Me and My vineyard.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
So now, residents of Jerusalemand men of Judah,please judge between meand my vineyard.

Hebrew Names Version
Now, inhabitants of Yerushalayim and men of Yehudah, Please judge between me and my vineyard.

King James Version
And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem, and men of Judah, judge, I pray you, betwixt me and my vineyard.

English Standard Version
And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem and men of Judah, judge between me and my vineyard.

New American Standard Bible
"And now, you inhabitants of Jerusalem and people of Judah, Judge between Me and My vineyard.

New Century Version
My friend says, "You people living in Jerusalem, and you people of Judah, judge between me and my vineyard.

Amplified Bible
"And now, says the LORD, O inhabitants of Jerusalem and men of Judah, Judge between Me and My vineyard (My people).

World English Bible
Now, inhabitants of Jerusalem and men of Judah, Please judge between me and my vineyard.

Geneva Bible (1587)
Now therefore, O inhabitants of Ierusalem and men of Iudah, iudge, I pray you, betweene me, and my vineyarde.

Legacy Standard Bible
"So now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem and men of Judah,Please judge between Me and My vineyard.

Berean Standard Bible
And now, O dwellers of Jerusalem and men of Judah, I exhort you to judge between Me and My vineyard.

Contemporary English Version
Listen, people of Jerusalem and of Judah! You be the judge of me and my vineyard.

Complete Jewish Bible
Now, citizens of Yerushalayim and people of Y'hudah, judge between me and my vineyard.

Darby Translation
And now, inhabitants of Jerusalem and men of Judah, judge, I pray you, between me and my vineyard.

Easy-to-Read Version
My friend said, "You people living in Jerusalem and you people of Judah, think about me and my vineyard.

George Lamsa Translation
And now, O men of Judah, and inhabitants of Jerusalem, judge between me and my vineyard.

Good News Translation
So now my friend says, "You people who live in Jerusalem and Judah, judge between my vineyard and me.

Lexham English Bible
And now, inhabitants of Jerusalem and men of Judah, judge between me and my vineyard.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
I shewe you now my cause (o ye Citysens of Ierusalem and whole Iuda:) Iudge I praye you betwixte me: and my wynegardinge.

American Standard Version
And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem and men of Judah, judge, I pray you, betwixt me and my vineyard.

Bible in Basic English
And now, you people of Jerusalem and you men of Judah, be the judges between me and my vine-garden.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem and men of Judah, judge, I pray you, betwixt me and my vineyard.

King James Version (1611)
And now, O inhabitants of Ierusalem, and men of Iudah, Iudge, I pray you, betwixt me and my Uineyard.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Nowe O citezen of Hierusalem, and man of Iuda, iudge I pray thee betwixt me and my vineyarde:

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And now, ye dwellers in Jerusalem, and every man of Juda, judge between me and my vineyard.

English Revised Version
And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem and men of Judah, judge, I pray you, betwixt me and my vineyard.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Now therfor, ye dwelleris of Jerusalem, and ye men of Juda, deme bitwixe me and my viner.

Update Bible Version
And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem and men of Judah, judge, I pray you, between me and my vineyard.

Webster's Bible Translation
And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem, and men of Judah, judge, I pray you, betwixt me and my vineyard.

New English Translation
So now, residents of Jerusalem, people of Judah, you decide between me and my vineyard!

New King James Version
"And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem and men of Judah, Judge, please, between Me and My vineyard.

New Living Translation
Now, you people of Jerusalem and Judah, you judge between me and my vineyard.

New Life Bible
"And now, O people living in Jerusalem and men of Judah, judge between Me and My grape-field.

New Revised Standard
And now, inhabitants of Jerusalem and people of Judah, judge between me and my vineyard.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Now, therefore, O inhabitant of Jerusalem, And men of Judah, - Judge, I pray you, betwixt me, and my vineyard: -

Douay-Rheims Bible
And now, O ye inhabitants of Jerusalem, and ye men of Juda, judge between me and my vineyard.

Revised Standard Version
And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem and men of Judah, judge, I pray you, between me and my vineyard.

Young's Literal Translation
And now, O inhabitant of Jerusalem, and man of Judah, Judge, I pray you, between me and my vineyard.

THE MESSAGE
"Now listen to what I'm telling you, you who live in Jerusalem and Judah. What do you think is going on between me and my vineyard? Can you think of anything I could have done to my vineyard that I didn't do? When I expected good grapes, why did I get bitter grapes?

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem and men of Judah, Judge between Me and My vineyard.

Contextual Overview

¹ Now I will sing to my Beloved a song of my Beloved concerning His vineyard: My Beloved has a vineyard in a fruitful horn. ² And He dug it, and cleared it of stones, and planted it with the choicest vine, and built a tower in its midst, and also hewed out a wine vat in it. And He waited for it to produce grapes, but it produced rotten grapes. ³ And now, O people of Jerusalem and men of Judah, I ask you, judge between Me and My vineyard. ⁴ What more could have been done to My vineyard that I have not done in it? Who knows? I waited for it to yield grapes, but it yielded rotten grapes. ⁵ And now I will make known to you what I will do then to My vineyard. I will take away its hedge, and it will be burned. I will breach its wall, and it will become a trampling ground. ⁶ And I will lay it waste; it shall not be pruned nor hoed; but briers and thorns shall come up. And I will command the clouds from raining rain on it. ⁷ For the vineyard of Jehovah of Hosts is the house of Israel, and the man of Judah is His delightful plant. And He waited for justice, but behold, bloodshed; for righteousness, but behold, a cry!

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

judge: Psalms 50:4-6, Psalms 51:4, Jeremiah 2:4, Jeremiah 2:5, Micah 6:2, Micah 6:3, Matthew 21:40, Matthew 21:41, Mark 12:9-12, Luke 20:15, Luke 20:16, Romans 2:5, Romans 3:4

Reciprocal: Genesis 44:16 - What shall we say 1 Samuel 12:7 - reason 2 Kings 10:9 - Ye be righteous Psalms 46:3 - the waters Isaiah 27:8 - thou wilt Jeremiah 6:18 - hear Ezekiel 20:4 - judge them Hosea 4:1 - for Hosea 6:4 - what Amos 2:11 - Is it Matthew 7:17 - every

Cross-References

Genesis 4:25
And Adam knew his wife again, and she bore a son. And she called his name, Seth, for God has appointed to me another seed in place of Abel because Cain killed him.

Genesis 5:2
He created them male and female, and blessed them, and called their name Adam in the day when they were created.

Genesis 5:3
And Adam lived one hundred and thirty years and fathered a son in his own likeness, according to his image, and called his name Seth.

Genesis 5:14
And all the days of Cainan were nine hundred and ten years. And he died.

Genesis 5:16
And after he fathered Jared, Mahalaleel lived eight hundred and thirty years. And he fathered sons and daughters.

Job 14:4
Who gives a clean thing out of an unclean? No one!

Job 25:4
How then can man be justified with God? Or how can one who is born of a woman be pure?

Psalms 51:5
Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity, and in sin my mother conceived me.

Luke 1:35
And answering, the angel said to her, The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you, and for this reason that Holy One being born of you will be called Son of God.

John 3:6
That having been generated out of the flesh is flesh, and that having been generated out of the Spirit is spirit.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem, and men of Judah,.... All and everyone of them, who were parties concerned in this matter, and are designed by the vineyard, for whom so much had been done, and so little fruit brought forth by them, or rather so much bad fruit:

judge, I pray you, between me and my vineyard; between God and themselves; they are made judges in their own cause; the case was so clear and evident, that God is as it were willing the affair should be decided by their own judgment and verdict: so the Targum,

"judge now judgment between me and my people.''

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

And now ... - This is an appeal which God makes to the Jews themselves, in regard to the justice and propriety of what he was about to do. A similar appeal he makes in Micah 6:3 : ‘O my people, what have I done unto thee? and wherein have I wearied thee? Testify against me.’ He intended to “punish” them Isaiah 5:5-6, and he appeals to them for the justice of it. He would do to them as they would do to a vineyard that had been carefully prepared and guarded, and which yet was valueless. A similar appeal he makes in Isaiah 1:18; and our Saviour made an application remarkably similar in his parable of the vineyard, Matthew 21:40-43. It is not improbable that he had his eye on this very place in Isaiah; and it is, therefore, the more remarkable that the Jews did not understand the bearing of his discourse.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Isaiah 5:3. Inhabitants — ישבי yoshebey, in the plural number; three MSS., (two ancient,) and so likewise the Septuagint and Vulgate.