Isaiah 5:1-23
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.]
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.]
decide <08199> [judge.]
inform <03045> [go to.]
remove <05493> [I will take.]
graze <04823> [trodden down. Heb. for a treading.]
make <07896> [I will lay.]
prune <02168> [it shall.]
order <06680> [also.]
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.]
<05060> [them.]
landed <07704> [field.]
<03427> [they. Heb. ye placed.]
[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.]
few <0259> [one.]
get up <07925> [rise.]
intoxicated <01814> [inflame. or, pursue.]
stringed instruments <03658> [the harp.]
recognize <05027> [they regard.]
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.]
Death <07585> [hell.]
open <06473> [opened.]
celebrate <05938> [he that rejoiceth.]
Men <0120> [the mean.]
proud <05869> [the eyes.]
Lord <03068> [the Lord.]
sovereign God's <06918 0410> [God that is holy. or, the holy God. Heb. the God the holy.]
<06942> [sanctified.]
Lambs <03532> [shall the lambs.]
ruins <02723> [the waste.]
graze <01481> [strangers.]
pull <04900> [draw.]
hurry <04116> [Let him.]
plan <06098> [let the.]
<0559> [them.]
evil good ... good evil <07451 02896 0559> [call evil good. Heb. say concerning evil, It is good, etc.]
wise <02450> [wise.]
<06440> [in their own sight. Heb. before their face.]
champions <01368> [mighty.]
innocent <06663> [justify.]
for ... payoff <06118 07810> [for reward.]
ignore <05493> [take.]
