Isaiah 27:2
In that day: “Sing about a fruitful vineyard.
BSB
ASV
In that day: A vineyard of wine, sing ye unto it.
KJV
In that day sing ye unto her, A vineyard of red wine.
Sing ye unto her - אנו לה anu lah. Bishop Lowth translates this, Sing ye a responsive song; and says that ענה anah, to answer, signifies occasionally to sing responsively; and that this mode of singing was frequently practiced among the ancient Hebrews. See De Poes. Sac. Hebrews Prael. xix., at the beginning. This, indeed, was the ancient method of singing in various nations. The song was divided into distinct portions, and the singers sang alternately.
Sing to the vineyard of redness. He now shews that all this will promote the salvation of the Church; for the Lord attends to the interests of his people, whom he has taken under his guardianship and protection. In order, therefore, that the Church may be restored, Satan and all his kingdom shall be utterly destroyed.
Here is a great deal of mercy mixed with this judgment; for there are good people mixed with those that are corrupt and degenerate, a remnant according to the election of grace, on whom God will have mercy and to whom he will show favour: and these promises seem to point at all the calamities of the church, for which God would graciously provide these allays.
In that day when leviathan shall be destroyed, the vineyard (Ps 80:8), the Church of God, purged of its blemishes, shall be lovely in God's eyes; to bring out this sense the better, LOWTH, by changing a Hebrew letter, reads "pleasant," "lovely," for "red wine." sing--a responsive song [LOWTH]. unto her--rather, "concerning her" (see on Isa 5:1); namely, the Jewish state [MAURER].
A stop on this thread
John 15:1SECOND STRAND (the pivot). 'I am the TRUE VINE.' Jesus takes up the whole vine-of-Israel tradition and claims to BE the faithful vine Israel was not; abiding branches bear fruit, others are cut and burned (echoing Ezek 15).
public-domain quotation; G288 ampelos; Talbert 1994, Streett 2014 (cite-only)
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
The walk8
Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.
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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?
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What more could I have done for My vineyard than I already did for it? Why, when I expected sweet grapes, did it bring forth sour fruit?
“I am the true vine, and My Father is the keeper of the vineyard.
You will bring them in and plant them on the mountain of Your inheritance—the place, O LORD, You have prepared for Your dwelling, the sanctuary, O Lord, Your hands have established.
You uprooted a vine from Egypt; You drove out the nations and transplanted it.
With Your hand You drove out the nations and planted our fathers there; You crushed the peoples and cast them out.
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Numbers 21:17Then Israel sang this song: “Spring up, O well, all of you sing to it!
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Sing to the LORD, for He has done glorious things. Let this be known in all the earth.
Then Moses and the Israelites sang this song to the LORD: “I will sing to the LORD, for He is highly exalted. The horse and rider He has thrown into the sea.
On that day Deborah and Barak son of Abinoam sang this song:
