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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Isaiah 5:7 - 5:7
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Isaiah here applies the parable. It is no mere human owner, nor a literal vineyard that is meant.
vineyard of the Lord - His only one (Exo 19:5; Amo 3:2).
pleasant - “the plant of his delight”; just as the husbandman was at pains to select the sorek, or “choicest vine” (Isa 5:2); so God’s election of the Jews.
judgment - justice. The play upon words is striking in the Hebrew, He looked for mishpat, but behold mispat (“bloodshed”); for tsedaqua, but behold tseaqua (the cry that attends anarchy, covetousness, and dissipation, Isa 5:8, Isa 5:11, Isa 5:12; compare the cry of the rabble by which justice was overborne in the case of Jesus Christ, Mat 27:23, Mat 27:24).