Isaiah 5:3
1 I will sing for my beloved a song of his vineyard: My beloved had a vineyard on a very fertile hill.
2 He 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!
“And now, O dwellers of Jerusalem and men of Judah, I exhort you to judge between Me and My vineyard.
4 What more could I have done for My vineyard than I already did for it? Why, when I expected sweet grapes, did it bring forth sour fruit?
5 Now 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.
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.
Compare
- BSB
- “And now, O dwellers of Jerusalem and men of Judah, I exhort you to judge between Me and My vineyard.
- KJV
- And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem, and men of Judah, judge, I pray you, betwixt me and my vineyard.
- WEB
- “Now, inhabitants of Jerusalem and men of Judah, please judge between me and my vineyard.
- ASV
- And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem and men of Judah, judge, I pray you, betwixt me and my vineyard.
- DARBY
- And now, inhabitants of Jerusalem and men of Judah, judge, I pray you, between me and my vineyard.
- BLB
- “And now, O dweller of Jerusalem and man of Judah, judge please, between Me and between My vineyard.
- ÅB
- Og nå, dere Jerusalems innbyggere og Judas menn, døm mellom meg og min vingård!
- OTB
- «Og nå, dere som bor i Jerusalem og folk av Juda, døm mellom meg og min vingård.
- B1930
- Og nu, I Jerusalems innbyggere og Judas menn, døm mellem mig og min vingård!
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Micah 6:2–3
Hear, O mountains, the LORD’s indictment, you enduring foundations of the earth. For the LORD has a case against His people, and He will argue it against Israel:
Read in contextJeremiah 2:4–5
Hear the word of the LORD, O house of Jacob, and all you families of the house of Israel.
Read in contextPsalms 50:4–6
He summons the heavens above, and the earth, that He may judge His people:
Read in contextRomans 2:5
But because of your hard and unrepentant heart, you are storing up wrath against yourself for the day of wrath, when God’s righteous judgment will be revealed.
Read in contextPsalms 51:4
Against You, You only, have I sinned and done what is evil in Your sight, so that You may be proved right when You speak and blameless when You judge.
Read in contextLuke 20:15–16
So they threw him out of the vineyard and killed him. What then will the owner of the vineyard do to them?
Read in contextMatthew 21:40–41
Therefore, when the owner of the vineyard returns, what will he do to those tenants?”
Read in contextRomans 3:4
Certainly not! Let God be true and every man a liar. As it is written: “So that You may be proved right when You speak and victorious when You judge.”
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