I will lay it waste ... — The description here is continued from (Isaiah 5:5). The image is carried out and means that the Jew…

There shall come up briers and thorns. —The picture of desolation is still part of a parable. The “briers and thorns” (bo…

And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem, and men of Judah, judge, I pray you, betwixt me and my vineyard. What could have been done more to my vine…

I will lay it waste. God will not take pains to dig and prune it, and consequently it will become barren for want of cultivation; bria…

And I will lay it waste
Or "desolate", as it was by the Romans: the whole land of Judea, as well as the city and tem…

Christ is God's beloved Son, and our beloved Saviour. The care of the Lord over the church of Israel is described by the management of a vineyard. …

1. I will sing to my beloved. Here the prophet denounces the third sin of the two tribes—their abuse of things—using a metaphor. Th…