Isaiah 5:2
He dug it up and cleared the stones and planted the finest vines. He built a watchtower in the middle and dug out a winepress as well. He waited for the vineyard to yield good grapes, but the fruit it produced was sour!
And he fenced it, and gathered out the stones thereof, and planted it with the choicest vine, and built a tower in the midst of it, and also made a winepress therein: and he looked that it should bring forth grapes, and it brought forth wild grapes.
Note fenced: or, made a wall about
Note made: Heb. hewed
He dug it up, gathered out its stones, planted it with the choicest vine, built a tower in the middle of it, and also cut out a wine press in it. He looked for it to yield grapes, but it yielded wild grapes.
and he digged it, and gathered out the stones thereof, and planted it with the choicest vine, and built a tower in the midst of it, and also hewed out a winepress therein: and he looked that it should bring forth grapes, and it brought forth wild grapes.
Related passages
From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.
- fenced it
- or, made a wall about it.
- Exodus 33:16; Numbers 23:9; Deuteronomy 32:8, 9; Psalm 44:1–3; Romans 9:4
- planted
- Jeremiah 2:21
- Isaiah 5:2
- 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.
- Judges 16:4
- and built
- Isaiah 1:8; Micah 4:8
- made
- Heb. hewed. a winepress.
- Isaiah 63:2, 3; Nehemiah 13:15; Revelation 14:18–20
- he looked
- Isaiah 5:7; Isaiah 1:2–4, 21–23; Deuteronomy 32:6; Matthew 21:34; Mark 11:13; Mark 12:2; Luke 13:7; Luke 20:10–18; 1 Corinthians 9:7
- wild grapes
- Deuteronomy 32:32, 33; Hosea 10:1