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**a song.** Eight sentences describe the vineyard, of which seven give the characteristics, and one ([Isaiah 5:7](../../../kjv/isaiah/5/7) ) the result. This "song" sets forth the doom of the Vineyard: the Parable ([Luke 20:9-16](../../../kjv/luke/20/9-16) ), the doom of the husbandmen.
**hath** = had.
**a very fruitful** = oil's son. Can it refer to David and his anointing? Compare [1 Samuel 2:10](../../../kjv/1-samuel/2/10) ; [1 Samuel 16:13](../../../kjv/1-samuel/16/13) ; [Psalms 132:7](../../../kjv/psalms/132/7) . Compare [Isaiah 5:7](../../../kjv/isaiah/5/7) -, below.
**hill** = horn. Hebrew. *keren,* always "horn" (seventy-five times). Only "hill" here.

**vine.** For Israel as this vine, See [Isaiah 27:2-6](../../../kjv/isaiah/27/2-6) . [Jeremiah 2:21](../../../kjv/jeremiah/2/21) ; [Jeremiah 12:10](../../../kjv/jeremiah/12/10) . [Psalms 80:8](../../../kjv/psalms/80/8) . [Hosea 10:1](../../../kjv/hosea/10/1) ; [Hosea 14:6-7](../../../kjv/hosea/14/6-7) , &c. One of the three trees to which Israel is likened: the fig = *national* privilege; the olive = *religious* privilege; the vine = *spiritual* privilege. See note on [Judges 9:8-13](../../../kjv/judges/9/8-13) ,
**tower** = a watchtower. winepress = wine-vat. Hebrew. *yekeb,* not *gath,* a winepress. See note on [Proverbs 3:10](../../../kjv/proverbs/3/10) .
**wild grapes** = bad grapes. Hebrew. *beushim,* from *bashash,* to stink. The Hebrew word occurs only in verses: [Isaiah 5:2](../../../kjv/isaiah/5/2) , [Isaiah 5:4](../../../kjv/isaiah/5/4) .

**in it.** Some codices, with one early printed edition, Aramaean, Septuagint, Syriac, and Vulgate, read "to (or for) it".

**I will, &c.** Reference to Pentateuch ([Deuteronomy 28:23](../../../kjv/deuteronomy/28/23) , [Deuteronomy 28:24](../../../kjv/deuteronomy/28/24) .[Leviticus 26:19](../../../kjv/leviticus/26/19); [Leviticus 26:19](../../../kjv/leviticus/26/19) ).

**the LORD of hosts.** See note on [Isaiah 1:9](../../../kjv/isaiah/1/9) and [1 Samuel 1:3](../../../kjv/1-samuel/1/3) .
**house of Israel.** Occurs four times in Isaiah, twice before [Isaiah 40](../../../kjv/isaiah/40) : ([Isaiah 6:7](../../../kjv/isaiah/6/7) ; [Isaiah 14:2](../../../kjv/isaiah/14/2) ), and twice after ([Isaiah 46:3](../../../kjv/isaiah/46/3) ; [Isaiah 63:7](../../../kjv/isaiah/63/7) ). See App-79 . Note the *introversion* : "vineyard", "Israel", "Judah", "pleasant plant".
**judgment. oppression.** Note the Figure of speech *Paronomasia* for great and solemn emphasis, to attract our attention and impress our minds. Not a "pun "or a "play" on words. Hebrew. *mishpat. mishpach.*
**righteousness. a cry.** Figure of speech *Paronomasia* . Hebrew. *zedakah. ze'akah.* See note above. These two lines may be Englished by "He looked for equity, but behold iniquity; for right, but behold might" (as used in oppression and producing a "cry"). and he that rejoiceth, shall descend into it.

**Woe.** Figure of speech *Epibole* , "Woe" repeated six times in succession (verses: [Isaiah 5:8](../../../kjv/isaiah/5/8) , [Isaiah 5:11](../../../kjv/isaiah/5/11) , [Isaiah 5:18](../../../kjv/isaiah/5/18) , [Isaiah 8:20](../../../kjv/isaiah/8/20) , [Isaiah 8:21](../../../kjv/isaiah/8/21) , [Isaiah 8:22](../../../kjv/isaiah/8/22) ). Note the six subjects.
**no** . Hebrew. *ephes* . Occurs in "former" portion only here and in [Isaiah 34:12](../../../kjv/isaiah/34/12) ; the "latter" portion in [Isaiah 40:17](../../../kjv/isaiah/40/17) ; [Isaiah 41:12](../../../kjv/isaiah/41/12) , [Isaiah 41:29](../../../kjv/isaiah/41/29) ; [Isaiah 45:6](../../../kjv/isaiah/45/6) , [Isaiah 45:14](../../../kjv/isaiah/45/14) ; [Isaiah 46:9](../../../kjv/isaiah/46/9) ; [Isaiah 47:8](../../../kjv/isaiah/47/8) , [Isaiah 47:10](../../../kjv/isaiah/47/10) ; [Isaiah 52:4](../../../kjv/isaiah/52/4) ; [Isaiah 54:15](../../../kjv/isaiah/54/15) . App-79 .

**ears.** Figure of speech *Anthropopatheia* .
**said.** Note *Ellipsis* of the verb "to say". See App-6 and instructive examples in [Psalms 109:5](../../../kjv/psalms/109/5) ; [Psalms 144:12](../../../kjv/psalms/144/12) .[Psalms 28:9](../../../kjv/psalms/28/9) . [Jeremiah 9:19](../../../kjv/jeremiah/9/19) , &c.

**bath. homer. ephah.** See App-51 .

**strong drink.** Hebrew. *shekar* . App-27 .
**night.** Hebrew. *nesheph* . A *Homonym* . Compare [Isaiah 21:4](../../../kjv/isaiah/21/4) with [Isaiah 59:10](../../../kjv/isaiah/59/10) . See notes on [Job 24:15](../../../kjv/job/24/15) , and [1 Samuel 30:17](../../../kjv/1-samuel/30/17)

**tarbet** = drum. Hebrew. *toph* . See note on [1 Samuel 10:5](../../../kjv/1-samuel/10/5) .
**pipe** = fife.
**wine.** Hebrew. *yayin* . App-27 .
**feasts** = banquets.
**the Lord.** Hebrew. *Jehovah.* App-4 .

**men.** Hebrew. *methim* App-14 .

**hell** = Sheol. App-35 .
**enlarged.** Figure of speech *Prosopopoeia* . App-6 .
**herself.** = her soul. Hebrew. *nephesh* . App-13 .
**her.** All these feminine pronouns-mean that the nouns belong to Sheol.

**the mean man** = commoner. Hebrew. *'adam.* App-14 .
**the mighty man** = peer. Hebrew. *'ish* .
**lofty** = proud. Hebrew. *gabah.* See note on [Isaiah 2:11](../../../kjv/isaiah/2/11) .

**GOD** = the mighty God. Hebrew 'El (with Art.) App-4 .
**holy.** See note on [Exodus 3:5](../../../kjv/exodus/3/5) .

**strangers** = foreigners.

**iniquity.** Hebrew. *'avah.* App-44 .
**cords, &c.** Which draw on sin by the *load.*
**cart rope.** Implies sin by the cart-load.

**That say, &c.** Compare [Jeremiah 17:15](../../../kjv/jeremiah/17/15) .
**the Holy One of Israel.** See notes on [Isaiah 1:4](../../../kjv/isaiah/1/4) and [Psalms 71:22](../../../kjv/psalms/71/22) .

**call** = are calling.
**evil good.** Note the *Introversion* in each of the three clauses of this verse.
**put** = give out.

**sight.** Hebrew "face", put by Figure of speech *Metonymy* (of Subject), App-6 , for themselves, or their own view of matters.

**mighty** = strong men. Hebrew. *gibbor.* App-14 .

**the wicked** = a lawless one. Hebrew. *rasha'.*
**reward** = a bribe,
**the righteous** = righteous ones.
**him** = them.

**the law.** See note on [Isaiah 1:10](../../../kjv/isaiah/1/10) .
**the word** = saying, or spoken word. Hebrew. *'imrah.*

**stretched forth:** in judgment.
**torn in the midst of the streets** = as the sweepings of the streets.
**For all this, &c.** Compare the Reference to Pent, in the fivefold consequence of [Isaiah 5:25](../../../kjv/isaiah/5/25) ; [Isaiah 9:12](../../../kjv/isaiah/9/12) , [Isaiah 9:17](../../../kjv/isaiah/9/17) , [Isaiah 9:21](../../../kjv/isaiah/9/21) ; [Isaiah 10:4](../../../kjv/isaiah/10/4) , with the fivefold cause in [Leviticus 26:14](../../../kjv/leviticus/26/14) , [Leviticus 26:18](../../../kjv/leviticus/26/18) , [Leviticus 26:21](../../../kjv/leviticus/26/21) , [Leviticus 26:24](../../../kjv/leviticus/26/24) , [Leviticus 26:28](../../../kjv/leviticus/26/28) .
**stretched out still** = remains stretched out. Same word as "stretched forth (above) in judgment". Reference to Pentateuch ([Exodus 6:6](../../../kjv/exodus/6/6) . [Deuteronomy 4:34](../../../kjv/deuteronomy/4/34) ; [Deuteronomy 5:15](../../../kjv/deuteronomy/5/15) ; [Deuteronomy 7:19](../../../kjv/deuteronomy/7/19) ; [Deuteronomy 9:29](../../../kjv/deuteronomy/9/29) ; [Deuteronomy 11:2](../../../kjv/deuteronomy/11/2) ; [Deuteronomy 26:8](../../../kjv/deuteronomy/26/8) ).

**hiss unto** = hiss for (as men call bees).
**they shall come.** Note the Figure of speech *Hypotyposis* in [Isaiah 5:26-30](../../../kjv/isaiah/5/26-30) .

**heavens** = skies.

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