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What could have been done more to my vineyard, that I have not done in it? why, when I looked that it should bring forth grapes, brought it forth wild grapes?
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No Room for Excuses
Commentators overwhelmingly agree that God's question, "What more could I have done?" is rhetorical. He is making it clear that He provided Israel with every possible advantage for success: a choice location, a perfect law, prophets, and divine protection. Their failure to produce good "fruit" was not due to any lack on God's part, leaving them entirely responsible and without excuse for their sin.
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Isaiah
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18th Century
Presbyterian
What could I... - As a man who had done what is described in (Isaiah 5:2) would have done all that “could” be done for a vineyar…
19th Century
Anglican
What could have been done more ... — The prophet cuts off from the people the excuse that they had been unfairly treated, that the…
Baptist
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…
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16th Century
Protestant
What more ought to have been done to My vineyard? He first inquires what could have been expected from the best husbandman or householder,…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
What could have been done more to my vineyard, that I have not done in it ? &c.] Or "…
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. …
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13th Century
Catholic
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…
