Isaia 5:7

Romanian Cornilescu Translation

Via Domnului oştirilor este casa lui Israel, şi bărbaţii lui Iuda sînt viţa pe care o iubea. El se aştepta la judecată, şi cînd colo, iată sînge vărsat! -Se aştepta la dreptate, şi cînd colo, iată strigăte de apăsare!

Bible Verse Review
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the vineyard: Psalms 80:8-11, Psalms 80:15, Jeremiah 12:10

his pleasant plant: Heb. plant of his pleasures, Isaiah 62:5, Psalms 147:11, Psalms 149:4, Song of Solomon 7:6, Zephaniah 3:17

he looked: Isaiah 5:2, Isaiah 58:6-8, Exodus 22:22-27, Micah 6:8, Zechariah 7:9-14, Matthew 3:8-10, Matthew 23:23, John 15:2, 1 Corinthians 6:8-11, 1 John 3:7, 1 John 3:8

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, Isaiah 3:17

a cry: Genesis 4:10, Exodus 2:23, Exodus 2:24, Exodus 3:7, Exodus 22:21-24, Exodus 22:27, Deuteronomy 15:9, Nehemiah 5:1-5, Job 31:38, Job 31:39, Job 34:28, Proverbs 21:13, Luke 18:7, James 5:4

Reciprocal: Genesis 18:20 - the cry Leviticus 25:14 - General Numbers 5:29 - when a wife goeth Deuteronomy 24:15 - lest he Job 20:19 - he hath violently Psalms 82:5 - all the Ecclesiastes 4:1 - and considered Ecclesiastes 5:8 - regardeth Isaiah 1:21 - it was full Isaiah 3:14 - ye have eaten Isaiah 10:2 - that widows Isaiah 24:20 - the transgression Isaiah 59:6 - their works Isaiah 59:8 - no Jeremiah 5:15 - O house Jeremiah 14:2 - the cry Jeremiah 24:2 - naughty Ezekiel 7:11 - Violence Ezekiel 18:7 - hath not Ezekiel 22:29 - people Hosea 10:4 - thus Amos 5:7 - turn Amos 5:11 - treading Micah 6:12 - the rich Mark 11:13 - he found 1 Thessalonians 4:6 - go Hebrews 12:15 - any root

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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 provision was made by the good and righteous laws that were given them:

but behold oppression; or a "scab", such as was in the plague of leprosy; corruption, perverting of justice, and oppressing of the poor: Jarchi interprets it a gathering of sin to sin, a heaping up iniquities:

for righteousness, but behold a cry; of the poor and oppressed, for want of justice done, and by reason of their oppressions. Here ends the song; what has been parabolically said is literally expressed in the following part of the chapter.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

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 “paranomasia,” or play upon words, which is not uncommon in the Hebrew Scriptures, and which was deemed a great beauty in composition:

He looked for “judgment,”	משׁפט mishpâṭ,
And lo! “shedding of blood,”	משׂפח mis'pâch;
For “rightousness,”	צדקה tsedâqâh,
But lo! “a clamor,”	צעקה tse‛âqâh.

It is impossible, of course, to retain this in a translation.

A cry. A clamor - tumult, disorder; the clamor which attends anarchy, and covetousness, and dissipation Isaiah 5:8, Isaiah 5:11-12, rather than the soberness and steadiness of justice.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

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; Isaiah 65:11-12. Rabbi David Kimchi has noticed the paronomasia here: he expected משפט mishpat, judgment, but behold משפח mishpach, oppression; he expected צדקה tsedakah, righteousness, but behold צעקה tseakah, a cry. The rabbins esteem it a great beauty; their term for it is tsachoth haltashon, elegance of language.

Oppression - "tyranny."] משפח mishpach, from שפח shaphach, servum fecit, Arab. Houbigant: שפחה shiphchah is serva, a handmaid or female slave. משפח mispach, eighteen MSS.