--- title: "Isaiah 5 - Study King James Bible with trapps complete commentary" description: "Read Isaiah 5 with trapps complete commentary commentary. 1 Now will I sing to my wellbeloved a song of my beloved touching his vineyard. My wellbeloved hath a vineyard in a very fruitful hill: 2 And he fenced it" image: "/_app/immutable/assets/missing.C7wGMEZ6.jpg" url: "https://realbiblebelievers.com/study/trapps-complete-commentary/isaiah/5" --- [ Read](/kjv/isaiah/5)[ Commentary](/study/isaiah/5)[ Interlinear](/interlinear/isaiah/5) Audio 1 Now will I sing to my wellbeloved a song of my beloved touching his vineyard. My wellbeloved hath a vineyard in a very fruitful hill:* 2 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.** 3 And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem, and men of Judah, judge, 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? 5 And now go to; I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard: I will take away the hedge thereof, and it shall be eaten up; *and* break down the wall thereof, and it shall be trodden down:* 6 And I will lay it waste: it shall not be pruned, nor digged; but there shall come up briers and thorns: I will also 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 men of Judah his pleasant plant: and he looked for judgment, but behold oppression; for righteousness, but behold a cry.** 8 ¶ Woe unto them that join house to house, *that* lay field to field, till *there be* no place, that they may be placed alone in the midst of the earth!* 9 In mine ears *said* the LORD of hosts, Of a truth many houses shall be desolate, *even* great and fair, without inhabitant.** 10 Yea, ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and the seed of an homer shall yield an ephah. 11 ¶ Woe unto them that rise up early in the morning, *that* they may follow strong drink; that continue until night, *till* wine inflame them!* 12 And the harp, and the viol, the tabret, and pipe, and wine, are in their feasts: but they regard not the work of the LORD, neither consider the operation of his hands. 13 ¶ Therefore my people are gone into captivity, because *they have* no knowledge: and their honourable men *are* famished, and their multitude dried up with thirst.* 14 Therefore hell hath enlarged herself, and opened her mouth without measure: and their glory, and their multitude, and their pomp, and he that rejoiceth, shall descend into it. 15 And the mean man shall be brought down, and the mighty man shall be humbled, and the eyes of the lofty shall be humbled: 16 But the LORD of hosts shall be exalted in judgment, and God that is holy shall be sanctified in righteousness.* 17 Then shall the lambs feed after their manner, and the waste places of the fat ones shall strangers eat. 18 Woe unto them that draw iniquity with cords of vanity, and sin as it were with a cart rope: 19 That say, Let him make speed, *and* hasten his work, that we may see *it:* and let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel draw nigh and come, that we may know *it*! 20 ¶ Woe unto them that call evil good, 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* wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight!* 22 Woe unto *them that are* mighty to drink wine, and men of strength to mingle strong drink: 23 Which justify the wicked for reward, and take away the righteousness of the righteous from him! 24 Therefore as the fire devoureth the stubble, and the flame consumeth the chaff, *so* their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust: because they have cast away the law of the LORD of hosts, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.* 25 Therefore is the anger of the LORD kindled against his people, and he hath stretched forth his hand against them, and hath smitten them: and the hills did tremble, and their carcases *were* torn in the midst of the streets. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand *is* stretched out still.* 26 ¶ And he will lift up an ensign to the nations from far, and will hiss unto them from the end of the earth: and, behold, they shall come with speed swiftly: 27 None shall be weary nor stumble among them; none shall slumber nor sleep; neither shall the girdle of their loins be loosed, nor the latchet of their shoes be broken: 28 Whose arrows *are* sharp, and all their bows bent, their horses’ hoofs shall be counted like flint, and their wheels like a whirlwind: 29 Their roaring *shall be* like a lion, they shall roar like young lions: yea, they shall roar, and lay hold of the prey, and shall carry *it* away safe, and none shall deliver *it*. 30 And in that day they shall roar against them like the roaring of the sea: and if *one* look unto the land, behold darkness *and* sorrow, and the light is darkened in the heavens thereof.** [Isaiah 4](/study/isaiah/4) [Isaiah 6](/study/isaiah/6) ## Commentary To verse 1 [Isa 5:1](/kjv/isa/5/1) Now will I sing to my wellbeloved a song of my beloved touching his vineyard. My wellbeloved hath a vineyard in a very fruitful hill: Ver. 1. **Now will I sing.** ] Now, or, Now I pray, as stirring up his hearers to attention; for here beginneth his third sermon. He had endeavoured, but with little good effect, to convince them of their detestable unthankfulness, apostasy, and other enormities, in prose. Now he resolves to try another course, and to be unto them as a poet rather than a prophet, if haply they might be taken by the sweetness of his verse, and loveliness of his voice.[Eze 33:32](/kjv/-eze/33/32) “ *Metra parant animos, comprendunt plurima paucis:* Aures delectant, pristina commemorant. ” *True it is that poets, for the most part, are dulcissime vani,* most sweetly vain, as Augustine said of Homer. And some have noted well concerning St Paul, that citing his countryman, Aratus (for he was a Cilician), he nameth him not, but only saith, "Certain of your own poets,"[Act 17:28](/kjv/-act/17/28) notwithstanding the piety of his beginning, ‘ Eκ Dιος αρχωμεθα , or the divineness of his subject, the heavens - more sublime and pure matter than useth to be in the wanton pages of other poets. But our divine poet is of another alloy, and his holy song is of the same strain with that of Moses, of Deborah and Barak, of Hannah, of David, - *qui noster Orpheus est,* saith Euthymius, the "sweet singer of Israel,"[2Sa 23:1](/kjv/-2sa/23/1) - of Solomon with his Song of Songs; saving that this is *lugubre carmen,* saith Oecolampadius, *et tragediae quam comediae similius,* a lamentable ditty, and more like a tragedy than a comedy; for, though the prophet beginneth merrily, yet he endeth heavily; it is of "mercy and judgment" that he singeth. **** **To my well beloved,** ] *i.e.,* To Christ, the Church’s bridegroom, *cuius amicus et administer sum,* whose paranymph *advocate* I am and well wisher; [John 3:29](/kjv/john/3/29) **[2Co 11:2-3](/kjv/-2co/11/2-3) some render it for my beloved, or in his defence. **** **A song.** ] Or, Poem, whereto this first verse is the proem or preface. A spiritual song it is, most artificially composed, and set out with the most exquisite skill that might be. **** **Of my beloved.** ] Of him whom my soul loveth; *as*[Son 1:7](/kjv/-son/1/7) Jonathan loved David (1.) With a love of union;[1Sa 18:1](/kjv/-1sa/18/1) (2.) With a love of complacence;[Isa 5:19](/kjv/-isa/5/19) (3.) With a love of benevolence.[Isa 20:4](/kjv/-isa/20/4) So doth a gracious heart love Jesus Christ. My Love was crucified, said Ignatius, *a* whose heart was even a lump of love. **** **Touching his vineyard.** ] That degenerate plant of a strange vine unto him,[Jer 2:21](/kjv/-jer/2/21) the plantation and supplantation whereof is here, *first,* Parabolically propounded; *secondly,* More plainly expounded. Some read it, "to his vineyard"; others, "for his vineyard."[See Mat 21:33-34](/kjv/-see-mat/21/33-34)[Mar 12:1-2](/kjv/-mar/12/1-2) [Luke 20:9](/kjv/luke/20/9) ; [Luke 20:16](/kjv/luke/20/16) . **** **My beloved.** ] See how oft he harps upon this sweet string, and cannot come off. What a man loveth he will be talking of, as the huntsman of his hounds, the drunkard of his cups, the worldling of his wealth, &c. Ten times in eight verses together doth St Paul mention the name of Jesus, [1 Corinthians 1:1-4](/kjv/1-corinthians/1/1-4) *;*[1Co 1:7-10](/kjv/-1co/1/7-10) showing thereby that it was to him *mel in ore, melos in aure, iubilum in corde,* the sweetest music. **** **Hath a vineyard.** ][So the Church is here Isa 5:7](/kjv/-so-the-church-is-here-isa/5/7) and elsewhere frequently and fitly styled: *Confert autem vineae,* saith Oecolampadius. To a vineyard is the Church compared for sundry reasons; as the great care men take about it, *b* the great delight they take in it, the sweet fruits they expect from it, the great worth of its fruit,[the little worth of its stem Eze 15:3](/kjv/-the-little-worth-of-its-stem-eze/15/3) if it prove fruitless, the lowly and feeble condition thereof, the continual need it hath to be dressed, supported, sheltered, pruned. αιρει, καθαιρει ,[Joh 15:2](/kjv/-joh/15/2) *amputat, putat.* **** **In a very fruitful hill.** ] Heb., In a horn the son of oil, that is, a horny hill, bowing like a halfmoon, and so exposed to the sunbeams all the day long. *c* Some say that Judea lieth in the form of a horn, like as the low countries do in the form of a lion, *unde Leo Belgicus.* The "son of oil," or "fatness," that is, exceeding fat; Judea is called *Sumen totius orbis,* the friutful mother of all the earth, a land "flowing with milk and honey,"[Eze 20:6](/kjv/-eze/20/6) a very cornucopia of all comforts. Basil telleth us that it was a tradition of great antiquity, that Adam, when he was thrust out of paradise, *ut dolorem leniret,* for a mitigation of his grief, chose Judea, that most fruitful country, for a place to dwell in; whence it is that Sodom and her sisters, which were a part of that country, are said to be "pleasant as the garden of God."[Gen 13:10](/kjv/-gen/13/10) *a* Rom. xii. *b* *Nulla possessio maiorem operam requirit.* - *Cato.* *Itali dicunt, Vinea est tinea.* *c* *Soli antemeridiano, meridiano atque postmeridiano expositus.* - *Pisc.* ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/#website","url":"https://realbiblebelievers.com","name":"Real Bible Believers","description":"RBB","publisher":{"@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/#/schema/person/e966585dde703268e7f6ae890ea98509"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/search?q={search_term_string}","query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"ImageObject","@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/study/trapps-complete-commentary/isaiah/5#primaryimage","inLanguage":"en-US","url":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/_app/immutable/assets/missing.C7wGMEZ6.jpg","contentUrl":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/_app/immutable/assets/missing.C7wGMEZ6.jpg","width":672,"height":448,"caption":"Real Bible Believers"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/study/trapps-complete-commentary/isaiah/5#webpage","url":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/study/trapps-complete-commentary/isaiah/5","name":"Isaiah 5 - Study King James Bible with trapps complete commentary","isPartOf":{"@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/study/trapps-complete-commentary/isaiah/5#primaryimage"},"author":{"@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/#/schema/person/e966585dde703268e7f6ae890ea98509"},"description":"Read Isaiah 5 with trapps complete commentary commentary. 1 Now will I sing to my wellbeloved a song of my beloved touching his vineyard. 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