Isaiah 5:5

The Holy Bible, Berean Study Bible

Contextual Overview

¹I will sing for my beloved, a song of his vineyard: My beloved had a vineyard on a very fertile hill. ²He dug it up and cleared the stones and planted the finest vines. He built a watchtower in the middle and dug out a winepress as well. He waited for the vineyard to yield good grapes, but the fruit it produced was sour! ³And now, O dwellers of Jerusalem and men of Judah, I exhort you to judge between Me and My vineyard. ⁴What more could have been done for My vineyard that I did not already do in it? Why, when I waited for it to yield good grapes, did it bring forth sour fruit? ⁵Now I will tell you what I am about to do to My vineyard: I will take away its hedge, and it will be consumed; I will tear down its wall, and it will be trampled.⁶I will make it a wasteland, neither pruned nor cultivated, and thorns and briers will grow up. I will command the clouds that rain shall not fall on it. ⁷For the vineyard of the LORD of Hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah are the plant of His delight. He looked for justice but saw injustice; for righteousness, but heard a cry of distress.

Bible Verse Review
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go to: Genesis 11:4, Genesis 11:7

I will take: Isaiah 27:10, Isaiah 27:11, Leviticus 26:31-35, Deuteronomy 28:49-52, 2 Chronicles 36:4-10, Nehemiah 2:3, Psalms 74:1-10, Psalms 80:12-16, Lamentations 1:2-9, Lamentations 4:12

trodden down: Heb. for a treading, Isaiah 10:6, Isaiah 25:10, Isaiah 28:3, Isaiah 28:18, Lamentations 1:15, Daniel 8:13, Luke 21:24, Revelation 11:2

Reciprocal: Genesis 11:3 - they said one to another Exodus 37:22 - beaten work 2 Kings 5:5 - go Ezra 9:9 - a wall Nehemiah 1:3 - the wall Nehemiah 9:30 - therefore Job 1:10 - an hedge Job 42:6 - I Psalms 89:40 - broken Ecclesiastes 2:1 - Go to Ecclesiastes 3:3 - a time to break Isaiah 1:7 - country Isaiah 22:5 - treading Jeremiah 2:19 - Thine Jeremiah 18:11 - go to Jeremiah 21:4 - and I Jeremiah 29:4 - whom Lamentations 2:6 - he hath violently Lamentations 2:8 - purposed Ezekiel 19:12 - she was Hosea 2:12 - I will Amos 9:11 - close Matthew 7:19 - bringeth Matthew 21:19 - and found Matthew 21:41 - He will Mark 11:14 - No Mark 12:9 - he will Luke 13:35 - your James 4:13 - Go to

Cross-References

Genesis 3:19
By the sweat of your brow you will eat your bread, until you return to the ground-because out of it were you taken. For dust you are, and to dust you shall return."

Genesis 5:7
And after he had become the father of Enosh, Seth lived 807 years and had other sons and daughters.

Genesis 5:8
So Seth lived a total of 912 years, and then he died.

Genesis 5:10
And after he had become the father of Kenan, Enosh lived 815 years and had other sons and daughters.

Genesis 5:11
So Enosh lived a total of 905 years, and then he died.

Genesis 5:12
When Kenan was 70 years old, he became the father of Mahalaleel.

Genesis 5:14
So Kenan lived a total of 910 years, and then he died.

Genesis 5:21
When Enoch was 65 years old, he became the father of Methuselah.

Genesis 5:22
And after he had become the father of Methuselah, Enoch walked with God 300 years and had other sons and daughters.

Genesis 5:32
After Noah was 500 years old, he became the father of Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And now, go to; I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard,.... Not by bestowing fresh favours upon them, but by inflicting punishment on them, for abusing what they had received; and this he told by John Baptist, Christ, and his apostles, what he determined to do; and what he was about to do to the Jewish nation, in the utter ruin of it, Matthew 3:12.

I will take away the hedge thereof, and it shall be eaten up; that is, the vineyard shall be eaten by the wild beasts that will enter into it, when the hedge is taken away; or "it shall be burnt"; that is, the hedge, being a hedge of thorns, as Jarchi and Kimchi observe; such there were about vineyards, besides the stone wall after mentioned:

[and] break down the wall thereof, and it shall be trodden down; the vineyard, or the vines in it, see Psalms 80:12 this is to be understood of the Lord's removing his presence, power, and protection from the Jewish nation, and leaving them naked, destitute, and helpless, and exposed to their enemies. The Targum is,

"and now I will declare to you what I will do to my people; I will cause my Shechinah, or Majesty, to remove from them, and they shall be for a spoil; and I will break down the house of their sanctuary, and they shall be for treading.''

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Go to - The Hebrew word here is one that is commonly rendered, ‘I pray you,’ and is used “to call the attention to” what is said. It is the word from which we have derived the adverb “now,” נא nā'.

I will take away the hedge - A “hedge” is a fence of thorns, made by suffering thorn-bushes to grow so thick that nothing can pass through them. Here it means that God would withdraw his protection from the Jews, and leave them exposed to be overrun and trodden down by their enemies, as a vineyard would be by wild beasts if it were not protected.

The wall ... - Vineyards, it seems, had a “double” enclosure. - “Gesenius.” Such a double protection might be necessary, as some animals might scale a wall that would yet find it impossible to pass through a thorn-hedge. The sense here is, that though the Jews had been protected in every way possible, yet that protection would be withdrawn, and they would be left defenseless.