Isaiah 5:3

3 “Now you dwellers in Jerusalem and people of Judah, judge between me and my vineyard.

Isaiah 5:3 in Other Translations

KJV
3 And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem, and men of Judah, judge, I pray you, betwixt me and my vineyard.
ESV
3 And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem and men of Judah, judge between me and my vineyard.
NLT
3 Now, you people of Jerusalem and Judah, you judge between me and my vineyard.
MSG
3 "Now listen to what I'm telling you, you who live in Jerusalem and Judah. What do you think is going on between me and my vineyard?
CSB
3 So now, residents of Jerusalem and men of Judah, please judge between Me and My vineyard.

Isaiah 5:3 Meaning and Commentary

Isaiah 5:3

And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem, and men of Judah
All and everyone of them, who were parties concerned in this matter, and are designed by the vineyard, for whom so much had been done, and so little fruit brought forth by them, or rather so much bad fruit: judge, I pray you, between me and my vineyard;
between God and themselves; they are made judges in their own cause; the case was so clear and evident, that God is as it were willing the affair should be decided by their own judgment and verdict: so the Targum,

``judge now judgment between me and my people.''

Isaiah 5:3 In-Context

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.

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