Isaias

Hebrew Bible

Hebrew Bible, Isaias, Ottley, Cambridge, 1904

4 What is there yet to do 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?

5 And now let me, I pray, tell you what I will do to my vineyard; Ι will take away the hedge thereof, and it shall be consumed; and break down the wall thereof, and it shall be trodden down;

6 And I will make it a waste; it shall not be pruned, nor hoed; and there shall come up briers and thorns; and I will command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it.

7 For the vineyard of the LORD of Hosts is the house of Israel, and the man of Judah his pleasant plant 3 and he looked for judg- ment, and behold oppression; for righteousness, and behold a cry.

[*](6. ‘tabernacle,’ or, ‘booth,’ as i. 8; ‘pavilion,’ Ps. xviii. 11.)[*](1. ‘hill-top,’ lit. ‘horn.’)[*](2. ‘vine of Sorek’ perhaps=choice vine. Or, ‘hoped,’ ‘waited’ for to bring forth. ‘bring ’ lit. ‘make,’ same word as ‘do,’ ver. 4.)[*](5. Lit. ‘for a consuming’ (=burning, iv. 4)... ‘for a treading.’)

8 Woe unto them that join house to house, that lay ﬁeld to ﬁeld, till there is no room, and ye are made to dwell alone in the midst of the earth!