Isa 5:7 | JFB | STEP | 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 ( ). pleasant —"the plant of his delight"; just as the husbandman was at pains to select the sorek, or "choicest vine" ( ); 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, ; compare the cry of the rabble by which justice was overborne in the case of Jesus Christ, ). . SIX DISTINCT WOES AGAINST CRIMES.

Isaiah 5:7

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 (Ex 19:5; Am 3:2).

pleasant—"the plant of his delight"; just as the husbandman was at pains to select the sorek, or "choicest vine" (Isa 5:2); 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, Isa 5:8, 11, 12; compare the cry of the rabble by which justice was overborne in the case of Jesus Christ, Mt 27:23, 24).

Isa 5:8-23. SIX DISTINCT WOES AGAINST CRIMES.