Isaiah 5:1-18

5:1

sing <07891> [Now.]

love ........... love <03039> [well-beloved.]

vineyard ...... vineyard <03754> [touching.]

fertile hill <07161 01121> [a very fruitful hill. Heb. the horn of the son of oil.]

5:2

built a hedge ...... stones <05823 05619> [fenced it. or, made a wall about it.]

planted <05193> [planted.]

vine <08321> [the choicest vine.]

{Sorek,} in Arabic, {sharik,} certainly denotes an excellent vine; but some with Bp. Lowth, retain it as a proper name. Sorek was a valley lying between Askelon and Gaza, so called from the excellence of its vines.

built <01129> [and built.]

constructed <02672> [made. Heb. hewed. a winepress.]

waited for <06960> [he looked.]

sour ones <0891> [wild grapes.]

5:3

decide <08199> [judge.]

5:4

5:5

inform <03045> [go to.]

remove <05493> [I will take.]

graze <04823> [trodden down. Heb. for a treading.]

5:6

make <07896> [I will lay.]

prune <02168> [it shall.]

order <06680> [also.]

5:7

vineyard <03754> [the vineyard.]

cultivated place ..... took delight <08191 05194> [his pleasant plant. Heb. plant of his pleasures.]

waited <06960> [he looked.]

disobedience .......... got cries <04939 06818> [but.]

The paronomasia, or play of words, is very remarkable here: he looked for {mishpat,} "judgment," but behold {mispach,} "oppression;" for {tzedakah,} "justice," but behold {tz‰dkah,} "a cry."

disobedience <04939> [oppression. Heb. a scab.]

got cries <06818> [a cry.]

5:8

<05060> [them.]

landed <07704> [field.]

<03427> [they. Heb. ye placed.]

5:9

[In mine ears, said. or. This is in mine ears, saith, etc.]

<03808> [Of a truth, etc. Heb. If not many houses desolate, etc. desolate.]

5:10

few <0259> [one.]

5:11

get up <07925> [rise.]

intoxicated <01814> [inflame. or, pursue.]

5:12

stringed instruments <03658> [the harp.]

recognize <05027> [they regard.]

5:13

people <05971> [my people.]

understanding <01847> [because.]

leaders .... nothing to eat <04962 07458 03519> [honourable men are famished. Heb. glory are men of famine.]

masses <01995> [multitude.]

5:14

Death <07585> [hell.]

open <06473> [opened.]

celebrate <05938> [he that rejoiceth.]

5:15

Men <0120> [the mean.]

proud <05869> [the eyes.]

5:16

Lord <03068> [the Lord.]

sovereign God's <06918 0410> [God that is holy. or, the holy God. Heb. the God the holy.]

<06942> [sanctified.]

5:17

Lambs <03532> [shall the lambs.]

ruins <02723> [the waste.]

graze <01481> [strangers.]

5:18

pull <04900> [draw.]