Woe to the Unfaithful Vineyard! Chapter seven

"FOR  exquisite beauty of language and consummate skill in effective communication, this parable is virtually peerless."  So said one Bible commentator referring  to the opening verses in Isaiah chapter 5.  More than simply a work of art, Isaiah's words paint a touching portrait of the loving care that Jehovah has for his people>  At the same time, these words warn us against things that displease him.

Isaiah's parable begins: "Let me sing, please, to be beloved one a song of my loved one concerning his vineyard.  There was a vineyard that my beloved one came to have on a fruitful hillside.  And he proceeded to dig it up and to rid it of stones and to plant  it with a choice red vine, and to build a tower in the middle of it. And there was also a winepress that he hewed out in it.  And he kept hoping for it to produce grapes, but it gradually produced wild grapes." -Isaiah 5:1, 2; compare Mark 12:1.

Next time: The Care of the Vineyard

From the Book Isaiah's Prophecy Light for all Mankind