Isaiah 5:3

3 nunc ergo habitator Hierusalem et vir Iuda iudicate inter me et inter vineam meam

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 cantabo dilecto meo canticum patruelis mei vineae suae vinea facta est dilecto meo in cornu filio olei

2 et sepivit eam et lapides elegit ex illa et plantavit eam electam et aedificavit turrem in medio eius et torcular extruxit in ea et expectavit ut faceret uvas et fecit labruscas

3 nunc ergo habitator Hierusalem et vir Iuda iudicate inter me et inter vineam meam

4 quid est quod debui ultra facere vineae meae et non feci ei an quod expectavi ut faceret uvas et fecit labruscas

5 et nunc ostendam vobis quid ego faciam vineae meae auferam sepem eius et erit in direptionem diruam maceriam eius et erit in conculcationem