Berean Standard Bible
Isaiah 5:2
2He 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!
Isaiah 5:2 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)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.
- New International Version (NIV)He dug it up and cleared it of stones and planted it with the choicest vines. He built a watchtower in it and cut out a winepress as well. Then he looked for a crop of good grapes, but it yielded only bad fruit.
- English Standard Version (ESV)He dug it and cleared it of stones, and planted it with choice vines; he built a watchtower in the midst of it, and hewed out a wine vat in it; and he looked for it to yield grapes, but it yielded wild grapes.
- New King James Version (NKJV)He dug it up and cleared out its stones, And planted it with the choicest vine. He built a tower in its midst, And also made a winepress in it; So He expected it to bring forth good grapes, But it brought forth wild grapes.
Context of Isaiah 5:2
1I will sing for my beloved a song of his vineyard: My beloved had a vineyard on a very fertile hill. 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! 3“And now, O dwellers of Jerusalem and men of Judah, I exhort you to judge between Me and My vineyard. 4What more could have been done for My vineyard than I have done for it? Why, when I expected sweet grapes, did it bring forth sour fruit?
Read all of Isaiah 5Isaiah 5:2 word by word
וַֽיְעַזְּקֵ֣הוּ וַֽיְסַקְּלֵ֗הוּ וַיִּטָּעֵ֙הוּ֙ שֹׂרֵ֔ק וַיִּ֤בֶן מִגְדָּל֙ בְּתוֹכ֔וֹ וְגַם־יֶ֖קֶב חָצֵ֣ב בּ֑וֹ וַיְקַ֛ו לַעֲשׂ֥וֹת עֲנָבִ֖ים וַיַּ֥עַשׂ בְּאֻשִֽׁים׃Read the interlinear
- He dug it upעָזַק‛âzaq · to dig aboutH5823
- and cleared the stonesסָקַלsâqal · to stoneH5619
- and plantedנָטַעnâţa‛ · to plantH5193
- the finest vinesשֹׂרֵקώôrêq ώôrêq ώôrêqâh · vineH8321
- He builtבָּנָהbânâh · to buildH1129
- a watchtowerמִגְדָּלmigdâl migdâlâh · towerH4026
- in the middleתָּ֫וֶךְtâvek · midstH8432
- andגַּםgam · alsoH1571
- dug outחָצַבchâtsab châtsêb · to hewH2672
- a winepress as wellיֶ֫קֶבyeqeb · wineH3342
- He waited forקָוָהqâvâh · to awaitH6960
- to yieldעָשָׂה‛âώâh · to make: doH6213
- good grapesעֵנָב‛ênâb · grapeH6025
- was sourבְּאֻשִׁיםbe'ûshîym · sour grapesH891
Cross-references for Isaiah 5:2
- Exodus 33:16For how then can it be known that Your people and I have found favor in Your sight, unless You go with us? How else will we be distinguished from all the other people on the face of the earth?”
- Numbers 23:9For I see them from atop the rocky cliffs, and I watch them from the hills. Behold, a people dwelling apart, not reckoning themselves among the nations.
- Deuteronomy 32:8When the Most High gave the nations their inheritance, when He divided the sons of man, He set the boundaries of the peoples according to the number of the sons of God.
- Psalms 44:1We have heard with our ears, O God; our fathers have told us the work You did in their days, in the days of old.
- Romans 9:4the people of Israel. Theirs is the adoption as sons; theirs the divine glory and the covenants; theirs the giving of the law, the temple worship, and the promises.
- 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?
- Judges 16:4Some time later, Samson fell in love with a woman in the Valley of Sorek, whose name was Delilah.
- Isaiah 1:8And the Daughter of Zion is abandoned like a shelter in a vineyard, like a shack in a cucumber field, like a city besieged.
- Micah 4:8And you, O watchtower of the flock, O stronghold of the Daughter of Zion— the former dominion will be restored to you; sovereignty will come to the Daughter of Jerusalem.”
- Isaiah 63:2Why are Your clothes red, and Your garments like one who treads the winepress?
- Nehemiah 13:15In those days I saw people in Judah treading winepresses on the Sabbath and bringing in grain and loading it on donkeys, along with wine, grapes, and figs. All kinds of goods were being brought into Jerusalem on the Sabbath day. So I warned them against selling food on that day.
- Revelation 14:18Still another angel, with authority over the fire, came from the altar and called out in a loud voice to the angel with the sharp sickle, “Swing your sharp sickle and gather the clusters of grapes from the vine of the earth, because its grapes are ripe.”
- Isaiah 5:7For the vineyard of the LORD of Hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah are the plant of His delight. He looked for justice, but saw bloodshed; for righteousness, but heard a cry of distress.
- 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.
- Deuteronomy 32:6Is this how you repay the LORD, O foolish and senseless people? Is He not your Father and Creator? Has He not made you and established you?
- Matthew 21:34When the harvest time drew near, he sent his servants to the tenants to collect his share of the fruit.
Commentaries on Isaiah 5:2
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 2And gathered out the stones "And he cleared it from the stones" - This was agreeable to the husbandry: "Saxa, summa parte terrae, et vites et arbores laeduct; ima parte refrigerant;" Columell. de arb. 3: "Saxosum facile est expedire lectione lapidum;" Id. 2:2. "Lapides, qui supersunt, [al. insuper sunt], hieme rigent, aestate fervescunt; idcirco satis, arbustis, et vitibus nocent;" Pallad. 1:6. A piece of ground thus cleared of the stones Persius, in his…Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 2And he fenced it - Margin, Made a wall about it.‘ The word used here is supposed rather to mean “to dig about, to grub,” as with a pick-axe or spade. - “Gesenius.” It has this signification in Arabic, and in one place in the Jewish Talmud. - “Kimchi.” The Vulgate and the Septuagint understands it of making a hedge or fence, probably the first work in preparing a vineyard. And as a hedge‘ is expressly mentioned in Isaiah 5:5, it seems most probable that…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 2The Lord cared for his vineyard like an expert farmer. He watched it closely, planting the best vines for sweet grapes. God expected much from Israel as his people (see Exodus 19:5–6), so their bitter grapes (their unrighteous deeds) were useless and disappointing (compare Galatians 5:22–23).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 22. fenced--rather, "digged and trenched" the ground to prepare it for planting the vines [Maurer]. choicest vine--Hebrew, sorek; called still in Morocco, serki; the grapes had scarcely perceptible seeds; the Persian kishmish or bedana, that is, "without seed" (Ge 49:11). tower--to watch the vineyard against the depredations of man or beast, and for the use of the owner (Mt 21:33). wine-press--including the wine-fat; both hewn, for coolness, out of the…Read the comment
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Commentaries on Isaiah 5
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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