A song for the beloved concerning his vineyard opens the chapter: planted on a fruitful hill, digged, cleared of stones, given a tower and winepress, yet it yields wild grapes, so its hedge is removed and it is laid waste. Verse 7 names the vineyard as the house of Israel and Judah: Jehovah looked for justice (mishpat) but found oppression (mispach), for righteousness (tsedaqah) but heard a cry (tse'aqah). Six woes follow: against land-grabbers who join house to house, drunkards who ignore Jehovah's work, those who drag sin with cart ropes, those who call evil good and good evil, the wise in their own eyes, and heroes at drinking wine who take bribes. Sheol enlarges itself; Jehovah's anger is not turned away, and he whistles for a distant nation whose army comes swiftly, roaring like lions, bringing darkness and distress.

Drawn from Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory, Matthew Henry, Complete Commentary, John Wesley, Notes on the Old Testament and John Calvin, Commentaries.

Context

Prophecy · Isaiah — Isaiah overview

A. 1–7 The Song of the Vineyard That Yielded Wild Grapes
B. 8–17 Woe to Those Who Join House to House
C. 18–25 Woe to Those Who Call Evil Good
D. 26–30 A Whistle for a Nation from Far Away

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Isaiah 13 verses
- Isaiah 1:2Listen, O heavens, and give ear, O earth, for the LORD has spoken: “I have raised children and brought them up, but they have rebelled against Me.
- Isaiah 1:3The ox knows its owner, and the donkey its master’s manger, but Israel does not know; My people do not understand.”
- Isaiah 1:7Your land is desolate; your cities are burned with fire. Foreigners devour your fields before you—a desolation demolished by strangers.
- Read Isaiah 1 →
Isaiah 73 verses
- Isaiah 7:18On that day the LORD will whistle to the flies at the farthest streams of the Nile and to the bees in the land of Assyria.
- Isaiah 7:23And on that day, in every place that had a thousand vines worth a thousand shekels of silver, only briers and thorns will be found.
- Isaiah 7:25For fear of the briers and thorns, you will no longer traverse the hills once tilled by the hoe; they will become places for oxen to graze and sheep to trample.
- Read Isaiah 7 →
Habakkuk 23 verses
- Habakkuk 2:5and wealth indeed betrays him. He is an arrogant man never at rest. He enlarges his appetite like Sheol, and like Death, he is never satisfied. He gathers all the nations to himself and collects all the peoples as his own.
- Habakkuk 2:9Woe to him who builds his house by unjust gain, to place his nest on high and escape the hand of disaster!
- Habakkuk 2:15Woe to him who gives drink to his neighbors, pouring it from the wineskin until they are drunk, in order to gaze at their nakedness!
- Read Habakkuk 2 →
Jeremiah 53 verses
- Jeremiah 5:4Then I said, “They are only the poor; they have played the fool, for they do not know the way of the LORD, the justice of their God.
- Jeremiah 5:12They have lied about the LORD and said: “He will not do anything; harm will not come to us; we will not see sword or famine.
- Jeremiah 5:31The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests rule by their own authority. My people love it so, but what will you do in the end?
- Read Jeremiah 5 →

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Joel 23 verses
- Joel 2:5With a sound like that of chariots they bound over the mountaintops, like the crackling of fire consuming stubble, like a mighty army deployed for battle.
- Joel 2:7They charge like mighty men; they scale the walls like men of war. Each one marches in formation, not swerving from the course.
- Joel 2:10Before them the earth quakes; the heavens tremble. The sun and moon grow dark, and the stars lose their brightness.
- Read Joel 2 →
Jeremiah 22 verses
- Jeremiah 2:5This is what the LORD says: “What fault did your fathers find in Me that they strayed so far from Me, and followed worthless idols, and became worthless themselves?
- Jeremiah 2:21I had planted you like a choice vine from the very best seed. How could you turn yourself before Me into a rotten, wild vine?
- Read Jeremiah 2 →
Matthew 232 verses
- Matthew 23:37O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets and stones those sent to her, how often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were unwilling!
- Matthew 23:38Look, your house is left to you desolate.
- Read Matthew 23 →
Luke 212 verses
- Luke 21:24They will fall by the edge of the sword and be led captive into all the nations. And Jerusalem will be trodden down by the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled.
- Luke 21:34But watch yourselves, or your hearts will be weighed down by dissipation, drunkenness, and the worries of life—and that day will spring upon you suddenly like a snare.
- Read Luke 21 →

Cross-references from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge and OpenBible.info.