Isaiah 5:6

"Now I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard. I will take away its hedge, and it will be eaten up. I will break down its wall, and it will be trampled down."

Key Reflection

In Isaiah 5:6, God symbolically describes His people as a vineyard that He has tended with care but now abandons by removing protective measures, leading to its destruction. This reflects God's disappointment and the consequences of Israel's rejection of His covenant.

From the Scholars: Barnes' Notes

I will lay it waste ... -The description here is continued fromIsaiah 5:5. The image is carried out, and means that the Jews should be left utterly without protection. I will also command the clouds ... -It is evident here, that the parable or figure is partially dropped. A farmer could not command the clouds. It is God alone who could do that; and the figure of the vineyard is dropped, and God is introduced speaking as a sovereign. The meaning is, that he would withhold his divine influences, and would abandon them to desolation. The sense of the whole verse is plain.

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