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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Isaiah 5:1 - 5:1
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Isa 5:1-30. A new prophecy; entire in itself. Probably delivered about the same time as the second and third chapters, in Uzziah’s reign. Compare Isa 5:15, Isa 5:16 with Isa 2:17; and Isa 5:1 with Isa 3:14. However, the close of the chapter alludes generally to the still distant invasion of Assyrians in a later reign (compare Isa 5:26 with Isa 7:18; and Isa 5:25 with Isa 9:12). When the time drew nigh, according to the ordinary prophetic usage, he handles the details more particularly (Isaiah 7:1-8:22); namely, the calamities caused by the Syro-Israelitish invasion, and subsequently by the Assyrians whom Ahaz had invited to his help.
to - rather, “concerning” [Gesenius], that is, in the person of My beloved, as His representative [Vitringa]. Isaiah gives a hint of the distinction and yet unity of the Divine Persons (compare He with I, Isa 5:2, Isa 5:3).
of my beloved - inspired by Him; or else, a tender song [Castalio]. By a slight change of reading “a song of His love” [Houbigant]. “The Beloved” is Jehovah, the Second Person, the “Angel” of God the Father, not in His character as incarnate Messiah, but as God of the Jews (Exo 23:20, Exo 23:21; Exo 32:34; Exo 33:14).
vineyard - (Isa 3:14; Psa 80:8, etc.). The Jewish covenant-people, separated from the nations for His glory, as the object of His peculiar care (Mat 20:1; Mat 21:33). Jesus Christ in the “vineyard” of the New Testament Church is the same as the Old Testament Angel of the Jewish covenant.
fruitful hill - literally, “a horn” (“peak,” as the Swiss shreckhorn) of the son of oil; poetically, for very fruitful. Suggestive of isolation, security, and a sunny aspect. Isaiah alludes plainly to the Song of Solomon (Son 6:3; Son 8:11, Son 8:12), in the words “His vineyard” and “my Beloved” (compare Isa 26:20; Isa 61:10, with Son 1:4; Son 4:10). The transition from “branch” (Isa 4:2) to “vineyard” here is not unnatural.