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Isaiah 5

Isa. 5:1 KJV (With Strong’s)

Now will I sing to my wellbeloved a song of my beloved touching his vineyard. My wellbeloved hath ah vineyard in πa very fruitful hill:

Luke 20:9• ⁹Then began he to speak to the people this parable; A certain man planted a vineyard, and let it forth to husbandmen, and went into a far country for a long time. (Luke 20:9)

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the horn of the son of oil.

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Cross References

Ministry on This Verse

1-7: Under the parable of a vineyard, God excuses his severe judgment.

8-10: His judgments upon covetousness;

11-12: upon lasciviousness;

13-19: upon impiety;

20-25: and upon injustice.

26-30: The executioners of God's judgments.

Now.

Deut. 31:19‑22• ¹⁹Now therefore write ye this song for you, and teach it the children of Israel: put it in their mouths, that this song may be a witness for me against the children of Israel.
²⁰For when I shall have brought them into the land which I sware unto their fathers, that floweth with milk and honey; and they shall have eaten and filled themselves, and waxen fat; then will they turn unto other gods, and serve them, and provoke me, and break my covenant.
²¹And it shall come to pass, when many evils and troubles are befallen them, that this song shall testify against them as a witness; for it shall not be forgotten out of the mouths of their seed: for I know their imagination which they go about, even now, before I have brought them into the land which I sware.
²²Moses therefore wrote this song the same day, and taught it the children of Israel. (Deut. 31:19‑22)

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Judg. 5:1‑31• ¹Then sang Deborah and Barak the son of Abinoam on that day, saying,
²Praise ye the Lord for the avenging of Israel, when the people willingly offered themselves.
³Hear, O ye kings; give ear, O ye princes; I, even I, will sing unto the Lord; I will sing praise to the Lord God of Israel.
⁴Lord, when thou wentest out of Seir, when thou marchedst out of the field of Edom, the earth trembled, and the heavens dropped, the clouds also dropped water.
⁵The mountains melted from before the Lord, even that Sinai from before the Lord God of Israel.
⁶In the days of Shamgar the son of Anath, in the days of Jael, the highways were unoccupied, and the travellers walked through byways.
⁷The inhabitants of the villages ceased, they ceased in Israel, until that I Deborah arose, that I arose a mother in Israel.
⁸They chose new gods; then was war in the gates: was there a shield or spear seen among forty thousand in Israel?
⁹My heart is toward the governors of Israel, that offered themselves willingly among the people. Bless ye the Lord.
¹⁰Speak, ye that ride on white asses, ye that sit in judgment, and walk by the way.
¹¹They that are delivered from the noise of archers in the places of drawing water, there shall they rehearse the righteous acts of the Lord, even the righteous acts toward the inhabitants of his villages in Israel: then shall the people of the Lord go down to the gates.
¹²Awake, awake, Deborah: awake, awake, utter a song: arise, Barak, and lead thy captivity captive, thou son of Abinoam.
¹³Then he made him that remaineth have dominion over the nobles among the people: the Lord made me have dominion over the mighty.
¹⁴Out of Ephraim was there a root of them against Amalek; after thee, Benjamin, among thy people; out of Machir came down governors, and out of Zebulun they that handle the pen of the writer.
¹⁵And the princes of Issachar were with Deborah; even Issachar, and also Barak: he was sent on foot into the valley. For the divisions of Reuben there were great thoughts of heart.
¹⁶Why abodest thou among the sheepfolds, to hear the bleatings of the flocks? For the divisions of Reuben there were great searchings of heart.
¹⁷Gilead abode beyond Jordan: and why did Dan remain in ships? Asher continued on the sea shore, and abode in his breaches.
¹⁸Zebulun and Naphtali were a people that jeoparded their lives unto the death in the high places of the field.
¹⁹The kings came and fought, then fought the kings of Canaan in Taanach by the waters of Megiddo; they took no gain of money.
²⁰They fought from heaven; the stars in their courses fought against Sisera.
²¹The river of Kishon swept them away, that ancient river, the river Kishon. O my soul, thou hast trodden down strength.
²²Then were the horsehoofs broken by the means of the pransings, the pransings of their mighty ones.
²³Curse ye Meroz, said the angel of the Lord, curse ye bitterly the inhabitants thereof; because they came not to the help of the Lord, to the help of the Lord against the mighty.
²⁴Blessed above women shall Jael the wife of Heber the Kenite be, blessed shall she be above women in the tent.
²⁵He asked water, and she gave him milk; she brought forth butter in a lordly dish.
²⁶She put her hand to the nail, and her right hand to the workmen's hammer; and with the hammer she smote Sisera, she smote off his head, when she had pierced and stricken through his temples.
²⁷At her feet he bowed, he fell, he lay down: at her feet he bowed, he fell: where he bowed, there he fell down dead.
²⁸The mother of Sisera looked out at a window, and cried through the lattice, Why is his chariot so long in coming? why tarry the wheels of his chariots?
²⁹Her wise ladies answered her, yea, she returned answer to herself,
³⁰Have they not sped? have they not divided the prey; to every man a damsel or two; to Sisera a prey of divers colors, a prey of divers colors of needlework, of divers colors of needlework on both sides, meet for the necks of them that take the spoil?
³¹So let all thine enemies perish, O Lord: but let them that love him be as the sun when he goeth forth in his might. And the land had rest forty years. (Judg. 5:1‑31)

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Psa. 45:1• ¹<<To the chief Musician upon Shoshannim, for the sons of Korah, Maschil, A Song of loves.>> My heart is inditing a good matter: I speak of the things which I have made touching the king: my tongue is the pen of a ready writer. (Psa. 45:1)

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Psa. 101:1• ¹<<A Psalm of David.>> I will sing of mercy and judgment: unto thee, O Lord, will I sing. (Psa. 101:1)

well-beloved.

Song of Sol. 2:16• ¹⁶My beloved is mine, and I am his: he feedeth among the lilies. (Song of Sol. 2:16)

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Song of Sol. 5:2,16• ²I sleep, but my heart waketh: it is the voice of my beloved that knocketh, saying, Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled: for my head is filled with dew, and my locks with the drops of the night.
¹⁶His mouth is most sweet: yea, he is altogether lovely. This is my beloved, and this is my friend, O daughters of Jerusalem. (Song of Sol. 5:2,16)

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Song of Sol. 6:3• ³I am my beloved's, and my beloved is mine: he feedeth among the lilies. (Song of Sol. 6:3)

touching.

Isa. 27:2‑3• ²In that day sing ye unto her, A vineyard of red wine.
³I the Lord do keep it; I will water it every moment: lest any hurt it, I will keep it night and day. (Isa. 27:2‑3)

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Psa. 80:8• ⁸Thou hast brought a vine out of Egypt: thou hast cast out the heathen, and planted it. (Psa. 80:8)

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Song of Sol. 8:11‑12• ¹¹Solomon had a vineyard at Baal-hamon; he let out the vineyard unto keepers; every one for the fruit thereof was to bring a thousand pieces of silver.
¹²My vineyard, which is mine, is before me: thou, O Solomon, must have a thousand, and those that keep the fruit thereof two hundred. (Song of Sol. 8:11‑12)

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Jer. 2:21• ²¹Yet I had planted thee a noble vine, wholly a right seed: how then art thou turned into the degenerate plant of a strange vine unto me? (Jer. 2:21)

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Matt. 21:33• ³³Hear another parable: There was a certain householder, which planted a vineyard, and hedged it round about, and digged a winepress in it, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and went into a far country: (Matt. 21:33)

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Mark 12:1• ¹And he began to speak unto them by parables. A certain man planted a vineyard, and set an hedge about it, and digged a place for the winefat, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and went into a far country. (Mark 12:1)

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Luke 20:9• ⁹Then began he to speak to the people this parable; A certain man planted a vineyard, and let it forth to husbandmen, and went into a far country for a long time. (Luke 20:9)

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John 15:1• ¹I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman. (John 15:1)

a very fruitful hill.

Heb. the horn of the son of oil.

• Chapter 5 begins with what we may call, The Song of Isaiah. (“Isaiah 5” by F.B. Hole)

• Israel had been Jehovah’s vineyard, and He had ordered everything in their favor. (“Isaiah 5” by F.B. Hole)

J. N. Darby Translation

I will sing to my well-beloved a song of my beloved touching his vineyard: My well-beloved had a vineyard upon a fruitful hilla.

JND Translation Notes

Lit. "horn of a son of fatness."