Isaiah 5:5

"What could have been done more to my vineyard, that I have not done in it? Why, when I looked for it to yield grapes, did it yield wild grapes?"

Key Reflection

This verse highlights God's comprehensive effort to bless and guide his people, yet their failure to produce the desired spiritual fruit. It underscores a theme of divine provision met with human ingratitude, setting up the contrast between expectation and reality that pervades Isaiah’s prophecy.

From the Scholars: Barnes' Notes

Go to -The Hebrew word here is one that is commonly rendered, ‘I pray you,’ and is used “to call the attention to” what is said. It is the word from which we have derived the adverb “now,”נאnā'. I will take away the hedge -A “hedge” is a fence of thorns, made by suffering thorn-bushes to grow so thick that nothing can pass through them. Here it means that God would withdraw his protection from the Jews, and leave them exposed to be overrun and trodden down by their enemies, as a vineyard would be by wild beasts if it were not protected. The wall ... -Vineyards, it seems, had a “double” enclosure.

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