Isaiah 5:1-7

The Song of the Vineyard

1 I will sing for the one I love a song about his vineyard: My loved one had a vineyard on a fertile hillside.
2 He dug it up and cleared it of stones and planted it with the choicest vines. He built a watchtower in it and cut out a winepress as well. Then he looked for a crop of good grapes, but it yielded only bad fruit.
3 “Now you dwellers in Jerusalem and people of Judah, judge between me and my vineyard.
4 What more could have been done for my vineyard than I have done for it? When I looked for good grapes, why did it yield only bad?
5 Now I will tell you what I am going to do to my vineyard: I will take away its hedge, and it will be destroyed; I will break down its wall, and it will be trampled.
6 I will make it a wasteland, neither pruned nor cultivated, and briers and thorns will grow there. I will command the clouds not to rain on it.”
7 The vineyard of the LORD Almighty is the nation of Israel, and the people of Judah are the vines he delighted in. And he looked for justice, but saw bloodshed; for righteousness, but heard cries of distress.

Cross References 18

  • 1. Psalms 80:8-9; Isaiah 27:2; John 15:1
  • 2. S Exodus 15:17; Isaiah 16:8; Jeremiah 2:21
  • 3. 1 Samuel 2:9; Isaiah 27:3; Isaiah 31:5; Isaiah 49:8; Matthew 21:33
  • 4. S Job 24:11
  • 5. Matthew 21:19; Mark 11:13; Luke 13:6
  • 6. Matthew 21:40
  • 7. S 2 Chronicles 36:15; Jeremiah 2:5-7; Micah 6:3-4; Matthew 23:37
  • 8. Jeremiah 2:21; Jeremiah 24:2; Jeremiah 29:17
  • 9. 2 Chronicles 36:21; Isaiah 6:12; Isaiah 27:10
  • 10. S Psalms 80:12; S Isaiah 22:5
  • 11. Isaiah 10:6; Isaiah 26:6; Isaiah 28:3,18; Isaiah 41:25; Isaiah 63:3; Jeremiah 12:10; Jeremiah 34:22; Lamentations 1:15; Hosea 2:12; Micah 7:10; Malachi 4:3; S Luke 21:24
  • 12. S Genesis 6:13; S Leviticus 26:32; Isaiah 6:13; Isaiah 49:17,19; Isaiah 51:3; Joel 1:10
  • 13. ver 10,17; S 2 Samuel 23:6; Isaiah 7:23,24; Isaiah 32:13; Isaiah 34:13; Isaiah 55:13; Ezekiel 28:24; Hosea 2:12; Hebrews 6:8
  • 14. S Deuteronomy 28:24; S 2 Samuel 1:21; Amos 4:7
  • 15. Psalms 80:8; Isaiah 17:10; Isaiah 18:5; Isaiah 37:30
  • 16. Isaiah 10:2; Isaiah 29:21; Isaiah 32:7; Isaiah 59:15; Isaiah 61:8; Ezekiel 9:9; Ezekiel 22:29
  • 17. S Isaiah 1:21
  • 18. S Psalms 12:5
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