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Isaiah 5 Summary
The Vineyard Parable and Woe Oracles
Isaiah sings of his beloved's vineyard planted on a fruitful hill with a tower and winepress, yet it brought forth wild grapes instead of good fruit, so the Lord will lay it waste and remove its hedge. The vineyard represents the house of Israel and men of Judah, whom the Lord expected to produce justice but found oppression, and righteousness but found a cry. The chapter pronounces successive woes upon those who join house to house and field to field, those who rise early for strong drink, those calling evil good, the self-wise, the mighty drinkers, and those who justify the wicked. Because they have cast away the Lord's law, His anger is kindled and He will bring a distant nation with sharp arrows and swift horses against them.
Key themes
Key verses
Isaiah 5:1
“Now will I sing to my wellbeloved a song of my beloved touching his vineyard. My wellbeloved hath a vineyard in a very fruitful hill:”
Isaiah 5:7
“For the vineyard of the LORD of hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasant plant: and he looked for judgment, but behold oppression; for righteousness, but behold a cry.”
Isaiah 5:20
“Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!”
Isaiah 5:30
“And in that day they shall roar against them like the roaring of the sea: and if one look unto the land, behold darkness and sorrow, and the light is darkened in the heavens thereof.”
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