Isaiah 5:1

God's love

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:

² 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.

³ And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem, and men of Judah, judge, I pray you, betwixt me and my vineyard.

This was said to Israel at a particular time, so it is wise to read it together with the surrounding text. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

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BSB: I will sing for my beloved a song of his vineyard: My beloved had a vineyard on a very fertile hill.
KJV: 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:
WEB: Let me sing for my well beloved a song of my beloved about his vineyard. My beloved had a vineyard on a very fruitful hill.
ASV: Let me sing for my wellbeloved a song of my beloved touching his vineyard. My wellbeloved had a vineyard in a very fruitful hill:
DARBY: I will sing to my well-beloved a song of my beloved touching his vineyard: My well-beloved had a vineyard upon a fruitful hill.
BLB: Let me sing now for my beloved, a song of my beloved regarding his vineyard: Unto my beloved there was a vineyard, a son of fatness on a hill.

ÅB: Jeg vil synge om min elskede, synge min venns sang om hans vingård. Min venn hadde en vingård på en fruktbar haug.
OTB: La meg synge for min elskede en sang om hans vingård: Min elskede hadde en vingård på en fruktbar høyde.
B1930: Jeg vil synge om min elskede, synge min venns sang om hans vingård. Min venn hadde en vingård på en fruktbar haug.

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

Mark 12:1
And he began to speak unto them by parables. A certain man planted a vineyard, and set an hedge about it, and digged a place for the winefat, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and went into a far country.
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Luke 20:9
Then began he to speak to the people this parable; A certain man planted a vineyard, and let it forth to husbandmen, and went into a far country for a long time.
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John 15:1
I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman.
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Jeremiah 2:21
Yet I had planted thee a noble vine, wholly a right seed: how then art thou turned into the degenerate plant of a strange vine unto me?
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Matthew 21:33
Hear another parable: There was a certain householder, which planted a vineyard, and hedged it round about, and digged a winepress in it, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and went into a far country:
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Psalms 80:8
Thou hast brought a vine out of Egypt: thou hast cast out the heathen, and planted it.
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Song of Solomon 2:16
My beloved is mine, and I am his: he feedeth among the lilies.
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Deuteronomy 31:19–22
Now therefore write ye this song for you, and teach it the children of Israel: put it in their mouths, that this song may be a witness for me against the children of Israel.
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