(KJV) Isaiah 51

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⥃The Song of the Vineyard [ Luke 13:6–9 ]

[1] Now2 will I sing to my wellbeloved3 a song of my beloved touching4 his vineyard. My wellbeloved hath a vineyard in a very fruitful hill5: [2] And he fenced it6, and gathered out the stones thereof, and planted7 it with the choicest vine8, and built9 a tower in the midst of it, and also made10 a winepress11 therein: and he looked12 that it should bring forth grapes, and it brought forth wild grapes13. [3] And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem, and men of Judah, judge14, I pray you, betwixt me and my vineyard. [4] What could have been done more to my vineyard, that I have not done in it? wherefore, when I looked that it should bring forth grapes, brought it forth wild grapes?15 [5] And now go to16; I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard: I will take17 away the hedge thereof, and it shall be eaten up; [and] break down the wall thereof, and it shall be trodden down18: [6] And I will lay19 it waste: it shall20 not be pruned, nor digged; but there shall come up briers and thorns: I will also21 command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it. [7] For the vineyard22 of the Lord of hosts [is] the house of Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasant plant23: and he looked24 for judgment, but25 behold oppression26; for righteousness, but behold a cry27.

⥃Woes to the Wicked

[8] Woe unto them28 that join house to house, [that] lay field29 to field, till [there be] no place, that they30 may be placed alone in the midst of the earth! [9] In mine ears [said31] the Lord of hosts, Of a truth32 many houses shall be desolate, [even] great and fair, without inhabitant. [10] Yea, ten acres of vineyard shall yield one33 bath, and the seed of an homer shall yield an ephah.

[11] [¶]Woe unto them that rise34 up early in the morning, [that] they may follow strong drink; that continue until night, [till] wine inflame35 them! [12] And the harp36, and the viol, the tabret, and pipe, and wine, are in their feasts: but they regard37 not the work of the Lord, neither consider the operation of his hands.

[13] [¶]Therefore my people38 are gone into captivity, because39 [they have] no knowledge: and their honourable men [are] famished40, and their multitude41 dried up with thirst. [14] Therefore hell42 hath enlarged herself, and opened43 her mouth without measure: and their glory, and their multitude, and their pomp, and he that rejoiceth44, shall descend into it. [15] And the mean45 man shall be brought down, and the mighty man shall be humbled, and the eyes46 of the lofty shall be humbled: [16] But the Lord47 of hosts shall be exalted in judgment, and God that is holy48 shall be sanctified49 in righteousness. [17] Then shall the lambs50 feed after their manner, and the waste51 places of the fat ones shall strangers52 eat. [18] Woe unto them that draw53 iniquity with cords of vanity, and sin as it were with a cart rope: [19] That say, Let him54 make speed, [and] hasten his work, that we may see [it]: and let the55 counsel of the Holy One of Israel draw nigh and come, that we may know [it]!

[20] [¶]Woe unto them56 that call evil good57, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter! [21] Woe unto [them that are] wise58 in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight59! [22] Woe unto [them that are] mighty60 to drink wine, and men of strength to mingle strong drink: [23] Which justify61 the wicked for reward62, and take63 away the righteousness of the righteous from him! [24] Therefore as the fire64 devoureth65 the stubble, and the flame66 consumeth the chaff, [so] their root67 shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust: because they have cast away68 the law of the Lord of hosts, and despised69 the word of the Holy One of Israel. [25] Therefore is the anger70 of the Lord kindled against his people, and he hath stretched71 forth his hand against them, and hath smitten them: and the hills72 did tremble, and their carcases [were] torn73 in the midst of the streets. For all74 this his anger is not turned away, but his hand [is] stretched out still.

[26] [¶]And he will75 lift up an ensign to the nations from far, and will hiss76 unto them from the end77 of the earth: and, behold, they78 shall come with speed swiftly: [27] None shall be79 weary nor stumble among them; none shall slumber nor sleep; neither80 shall the girdle of their loins be loosed, nor the latchet81 of their shoes be broken: [28] Whose arrows82 [are] sharp, and all their bows bent, their horses’83 hoofs shall be counted like flint, and their wheels like a whirlwind: [29] Their roaring84 [shall be] like a lion, they shall roar like young lions: yea, they shall roar, and lay hold85 of the prey, and shall carry [it] away safe, and none shall deliver [it]. [30] And in that day they shall roar against them like86 the roaring of the sea: and if [one] look87 unto the land, behold darkness [and] sorrow88, and the light89 is darkened in the heavens thereof.

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  1. Isa 5:1, Under the parable of a vineyard, God excuses his severe judgment; Isa 5:8, His judgments upon covetousness; Isa 5:11, upon lasciviousness; Isa 5:13, upon impiety; Isa 5:20, and upon injustice; Isa 5:26, the executioners of God’s judgments. ↩

  2. Deut 31:19-22; Judg 5:1-31; Ps 45:1, Ps 101:1 ↩

  3. Song 2:16, Song 5:2, Song 5:16, Song 6:3 ↩

  4. Isa 27:2-3; Ps 80:8; Song 8:11-12; Jer 2:21; Matt 21:33; Mark 12:1; Luke 20:9; John 15:1 ↩

  5. Heb. the horn of the son of oil ↩

  6. or, made a wall about it, Exod 33:16; Num 23:9; Deut 32:8-9; Ps 44:1-3; Rom 9:4 ↩

  7. Jer 2:21 ↩

  8. Sorek in Arabic, sharik certainly denotes an excellent vine; but some with Bp. Lowth, retain it as a proper name. Sorek was a valley lying between Askelon and Gaza, so called from the excellence of its vines. Judg 16:4 ↩

  9. Isa 1:8; Mic 4:8 ↩

  10. Heb. hewed ↩

  11. Isa 63:2-3; Neh 13:15; Rev 14:18-20 ↩

  12. Isa 5:7, Isa 1:2-4, Isa 1:21-23; Deut 32:6; Matt 21:34; Mark 11:13, Mark 12:2; Luke 13:7, Luke 20:10-18; 1Cor 9:7 ↩

  13. Deut 32:32-33; Hos 10:1 ↩

  14. Ps 50:4-6, Ps 51:4; Jer 2:4-5; Mic 6:2-3; Matt 21:40-41; Mark 12:9-12; Luke 20:15-16; Rom 2:5, Rom 3:4 ↩

  15. Isa 1:5; 2Chr 36:14-16; Jer 2:30-31, Jer 6:29-30; Ezek 24:13; Matt 23:37; Acts 7:51-60 ↩

  16. Gen 11:4, Gen 11:7 ↩

  17. Isa 27:10-11; Lev 26:31-35; Deut 28:49-52; 2Chr 36:4-10; Neh 2:3; Ps 74:1-10, Ps 80:12-16; Lam 1:2-9, Lam 4:12 ↩

  18. Heb. for a treading, Isa 10:6, Isa 25:10, Isa 28:3, Isa 28:18; Lam 1:15; Dan 8:13; Luke 21:24; Rev 11:2 ↩

  19. Isa 5:9-10, Isa 6:11-12, Isa 24:1-3, Isa 24:12, Isa 32:13-14; Lev 26:33-35; Deut 29:23; 2Chr 36:19-21; Jer 25:11, Jer 45:4; Luke 21:24 ↩

  20. Isa 7:23-25; Hos 3:4 ↩

  21. Isa 30:23; Deut 28:23-24; Amos 4:7; Zech 14:16-17; Heb 6:6-8; Rev 11:6 ↩

  22. Ps 80:8-11, Ps 80:15; Jer 12:10 ↩

  23. Heb. plant of his pleasures, Isa 62:5; Ps 147:11, Ps 149:4; Song 7:6; Zeph 3:17 ↩

  24. Isa 5:2, Isa 58:6-8; Exod 22:22-27; Mic 6:8; Zech 7:9-14; Matt 3:8-10, Matt 23:23; John 15:2; 1Cor 6:8-11; 1John 3:7-8 ↩

  25. The paronomasia, or play of words, is very remarkable here: he looked for mishpat "judgment," but behold mispach "oppression;" for tzedakah "justice," but behold tzedkah "a cry." ↩

  26. Heb. a scab, Isa 1:6, Isa 3:17 ↩

  27. Gen 4:10; Exod 2:23-24, Exod 3:7, Exod 22:21-24, Exod 22:27; Deut 15:9; Neh 5:1-5; Job 31:38-39, Job 34:28; Prov 21:13; Luke 18:7; Jas 5:4 ↩

  28. Jer 22:13-17; Mic 2:2; Hab 2:9-12; Matt 23:14; Luke 12:16-24 ↩

  29. 1Kgs 21:16-20 ↩

  30. Heb. ye placed, Ezek 11:15, Ezek 33:24 ↩

  31. or, This is in mine ears, saith, etc. Isa 22:14; Amos 3:7 ↩

  32. etc. Heb. If not many houses desolate, etc. desolate. Isa 5:6, Isa 27:10; 2Chr 36:21; Amos 5:11, Amos 6:11; Matt 22:7, Matt 23:38 ↩

  33. Lev 27:16; Ezek 45:10-11; Joel 1:17; Hag 1:9-11 ↩

  34. Isa 5:22, Isa 28:1; Prov 23:29-30; Eccl 10:16-17; Hos 7:5-6; Hab 2:15; Luke 21:34; Rom 13:13; 1Cor 6:10; Gal 5:21; 1Thess 5:6-7 ↩

  35. or, pursue, Isa 28:7-8; Prov 20:1, Prov 23:32 ↩

  36. Isa 22:13; Gen 31:27; Job 21:11-14; Dan 5:1-4, Dan 5:23; Amos 6:4-6; Luke 16:19; Jude 1:12 ↩

  37. Isa 5:19; Job 34:27; Ps 28:5, Ps 92:5-6; Hos 4:10-11 ↩

  38. Isa 1:7, Isa 42:22-25; 2Kgs 17:6; 2Chr 28:5-8 ↩

  39. Isa 1:3, Isa 27:11; Jer 8:7; Hos 4:6; Matt 23:16-27; Luke 19:44; John 3:19-20; Rom 1:28; 2Pet 3:5 ↩

  40. Heb. glory are men of famine, Jer 14:18; Lam 4:4-5, Lam 4:9 ↩

  41. Jer 14:3; Amos 8:13 ↩

  42. Isa 14:9, Isa 30:33; Ps 49:14; Prov 27:20; Ezek 32:18-30; Hab 2:5; Matt 7:13; Rev 20:13-15 ↩

  43. Num 16:30-34; Prov 1:12 ↩

  44. Isa 21:4; 1Sam 25:36-38; 2Sam 13:28-29; Ps 55:15; Dan 5:3-6, Dan 5:30; Nah 1:10; Luke 12:19-20, Luke 16:20-23, Luke 17:27, Luke 21:34; Acts 12:21-23 ↩

  45. Isa 2:9, Isa 2:11, Isa 2:17, Isa 9:14-17, Isa 24:2-4; Ps 62:9; Jer 5:4-5, Jer 5:9; Jas 1:9-11; Rev 6:15-16 ↩

  46. Isa 10:12, Isa 13:11, Isa 37:23, Isa 37:29; Exod 9:17; Job 40:11-12; Dan 4:37; 1Pet 5:5 ↩

  47. Isa 12:4; 1Chr 29:11; Ps 9:16, Ps 21:13, Ps 46:10; Ezek 28:22, Ezek 38:23; Rom 2:5; Rev 19:1-5 ↩

  48. or, the holy God, Heb. the God the holy, Isa 6:3, Isa 57:15; Rev 3:7, Rev 4:8, Rev 15:3-4 ↩

  49. Isa 8:13, Isa 29:23; Lev 10:3; Ezek 36:23; 1Pet 1:16, 1Pet 2:15 ↩

  50. Isa 7:21-22, Isa 7:25, Isa 17:2, Isa 32:14, Isa 40:11, Isa 65:10; Zeph 2:6, Zeph 2:14 ↩

  51. Isa 10:16; Deut 32:15; Ps 17:10, Ps 17:14, Ps 73:7, Ps 119:70; Jer 5:28; Amos 4:1-3 ↩

  52. Isa 1:7; Deut 28:33; Neh 9:37; Lam 5:2; Hos 8:7; Luke 21:24 ↩

  53. Isa 28:15; Judg 17:5, Judg 17:13; 2Sam 16:20-23; Ps 10:11, Ps 14:1, Ps 36:2, Ps 94:5-11; Jer 5:31, Jer 8:5-9, Jer 23:10, Jer 23:14, Jer 23:24, Jer 28:15-16, Jer 44:15-19; Ezek 13:10-11, Ezek 13:22; Zeph 1:12; John 16:2; Acts 26:9 ↩

  54. Isa 66:5; Jer 5:12-13, Jer 17:15; Ezek 12:22, Ezek 12:27; Amos 5:18-19; 2Pet 3:3-4 ↩

  55. Isa 30:11; Jer 23:18, Jer 23:36 ↩

  56. Prov 17:15; Mal 2:17, Mal 3:15; Matt 6:23, Matt 15:3-6, Matt 23:16-23; Luke 11:35, Luke 16:15; 2Tim 3:1-5; 2Pet 2:1, 2Pet 2:18-19 ↩

  57. Heb. say concerning evil, It is good, etc ↩

  58. Job 11:12; Prov 3:7, Prov 26:12, Prov 26:16; John 9:41; Rom 1:22, Rom 11:25, Rom 12:16; 1Cor 3:18-20 ↩

  59. Heb. before their face ↩

  60. Isa 5:11, Isa 28:1-3, Isa 28:7; Prov 23:19-20; Hab 2:15 ↩

  61. Exod 23:6-9; Prov 17:15, Prov 24:24, Prov 31:4-5 ↩

  62. Isa 1:23; Deut 16:19; 2Chr 19:7; Prov 17:23; Mic 3:11, Mic 7:3 ↩

  63. Isa 10:2; 1Kgs 21:13; Ps 94:21; Matt 23:35, Matt 27:24-25; Jas 5:6 ↩

  64. Heb. tongue of fire ↩

  65. Isa 47:14; Exod 15:7; Joel 2:5; Nah 1:10; Mal 4:1; 1Cor 3:12-13 ↩

  66. Matt 3:12; Luke 3:17 ↩

  67. Isa 9:14-17; Job 18:16; Hos 9:16; Amos 2:9 ↩

  68. 1Sam 15:23, 1Sam 15:26; 2Kgs 17:14-15; Neh 9:26; Ps 50:17; Jer 6:19, Jer 8:9; Luke 7:30; John 12:48; Heb 10:28-29 ↩

  69. Isa 30:12; 2Sam 12:9-10; Luke 10:16; Acts 13:41; 1Thess 4:8 ↩

  70. Deut 31:17, Deut 32:19-22; 2Kgs 13:3, 2Kgs 22:13-17; 2Chr 36:16; Ps 106:40; Lam 2:1-3, Lam 5:22; 1Thess 2:16 ↩

  71. Isa 14:26-27 ↩

  72. Ps 18:7, Ps 68:8, Ps 77:18, Ps 114:7; Jer 4:24; Mic 1:4; Nah 1:5; Hab 3:10; Rev 20:11 ↩

  73. or, as dung, 1Kgs 14:11, 1Kgs 16:4, 1Kgs 21:24; 2Kgs 9:37; Ps 83:10; Jer 8:2, Jer 9:22, Jer 15:3, Jer 16:4; Zeph 1:17 ↩

  74. Isa 9:12-13, Isa 9:17, Isa 9:21, Isa 10:4; Lev 26:14-46; Ps 78:38; Dan 9:16; Hos 14:4 ↩

  75. Isa 11:12, Isa 18:3; Jer 51:27 ↩

  76. Isa 7:18; Zech 10:8 ↩

  77. Isa 39:3; Deut 28:49; Ps 72:8; Jer 5:15; Mal 1:11 ↩

  78. Isa 30:16; Jer 4:13; Lam 4:19; Joel 2:7; Hab 1:8 ↩

  79. Joel 2:7-8 ↩

  80. Isa 11:5, Isa 45:1, Isa 45:5; 1Kgs 2:5; Job 12:18, Job 12:21 *marg. Ps 18:32, Ps 93:1; Dan 5:6; Eph 6:13-14 ↩

  81. Deut 32:25 ↩

  82. Ps 45:5, Ps 120:4; Jer 5:16; Ezek 21:9-11 ↩

  83. Judg 5:22; Jer 47:3; Mic 4:13; Nah 2:3-4, Nah 3:2 ↩

  84. Isa 31:4; Gen 49:9; Num 24:9; Jer 4:7, Jer 49:19, Jer 50:17; Hos 11:10; Amos 3:8; Zech 11:3 ↩

  85. Isa 42:22, Isa 49:24-25; Ps 50:22; Mic 5:8 ↩

  86. Ps 93:3-4; Jer 6:23, Jer 50:42; Luke 21:25 ↩

  87. Isa 8:22, Isa 13:10; Exod 10:21-23; Jer 4:23-28; Lam 3:2; Ezek 32:7-8; Joel 2:10; Amos 8:9; Matt 24:29; Luke 21:25-26; Rev 6:12, Rev 16:10-11 ↩

  88. or, distress ↩

  89. etc. or, when it is light, it shall be dark in the destructions thereof ↩