Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Isaiah 5:7

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7. 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 ( Exodus 19:5 ; Amos 3:2 ). pleasant —"the plant of his delight"; just as the husbandman was at pains to select the sorek, or "choicest vine" ( Amos 3:2- : ); 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, Isaiah 5:8 ; Isaiah 5:11 ; Isaiah 5:12 ; compare the cry of the rabble by which justice was overborne in the case of Jesus Christ, Matthew 27:23 ; Matthew 27:24 ). Matthew 27:24- : . SIX DISTINCT WOES AGAINST CRIMES. return to ' Top of Page ' <a name="verse-8" class="com-number"

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