Isaiah 5:2 - The Scriptures 1998

² And He dug it up and cleared it of stones, and planted it with the choicest vine, and built a watchtower in its midst, and also made a winepress in it. And He waited for the yielding of grapes, but it yielded rotten ones.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

² and he fenced it, and gathered out the stones thereof, and planted it with the choicest vine, and built a tower in the midst of it, and also made a winepress therein: and he looked that it should bring forth grapes, and it brought forth wild grapes.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

² And He dug and trenched the ground and gathered out the stones from it and planted it with the choicest vine and built a tower in the midst of it and hewed out a winepress in it. And He looked for it to bring forth grapes, and it brought forth wild grapes.

American Standard Version (1901)

² and he digged it, and gathered out the stones thereof, and planted it with the choicest vine, and built a tower in the midst of it, and also hewed out a winepress therein: and he looked that it should bring forth grapes, and it brought forth wild grapes.

Common English Bible

² He dug it, cleared away its stones, planted it with excellent vines, built a tower inside it, and dug out a wine vat in it. He expected it to grow good grapes— but it grew rotten grapes.

Catholic Public Domain Version

² And he fenced it in, and he picked the stones out of it, and he planted it with the best vines, and he built a tower in the middle of it, and he set up a winepress within it. And he expected it to produce grapes, but it produced wild vines.

Isaiah 5:2 Cross References

2 Samuel 7:10

“And I shall appoint a place for My people Yisra’ĕ

Nehemiah 13:15

In those days I saw in Yehuḏ

Psalm 80:8

You brought a vine out of Mitsrayim; You drove out the nations, and planted it.

Psalm 80:9

You cleared a place for it, And caused it to take deep root, And it filled the land.

Exodus 33:16

“For how then shall it be known that I have found favour in Your eyes, I and Your people, except You go with us? Then we shall be distinguished, I and Your people, from all the people who are upon the face of the earth.”

Isaiah 1:8

And the daughter of Tsiyon is left as a booth in a vineyard, as a hut in a garden of cucumbers, as a besieged city.

Isaiah 5:7

For the vineyard of יהוה  of hosts is the house of Yisra’ĕ

Jeremiah 11:17

“And יהוה  of hosts, who planted you, has spoken evil against you for the evil of the house of Yisra’ĕ

Jeremiah 2:21

“Yet I had planted you a choice vine, all of it a true seed. How then have you turned before Me into the degenerate plant of a strange vine?

Hosea 10:1

Yisra’ĕ

Micah 4:8

“And you, O tower of the flock, stronghold of the daughter of Tsiyon, it shall come to you, the former rule shall come, the reign of the daughter of Yerushalayim.”

Numbers 23:9

“For from the top of the rocks I see him, and from the hills I observe him. Look, a people dwelling alone, not reckoning itself among the nations.

Matthew 21:19

And seeing a single fig tree by the way, He came to it and found naught on it but leaves, and said to it, “Let no fruit grow on you ever again.” And immediately the fig tree withered.

Matthew 21:33

“Hear another parable: There was a certain man, a householder who planted a vineyard and placed a hedge around it, and dug a winepress in it and built a watchtower. And he leased it to farmers and went abroad.

Matthew 21:34

“And when the season of the fruits drew near, he sent his servants to the farmers, to receive its fruit.

Mark 11:13

And seeing at a distance a fig tree having leaves, He went to see whether He would find any fruit on it. And when He came to it, He found none but leaves, for it was not the season for figs.

Mark 12:1

And He began to speak to them in parables, “A man planted a vineyard and put a hedge around it, and dug a vat for the winepress and built a watchtower, and let it out to farmers and went away.

Mark 12:2

“And at harvest time he sent a servant to the farmers, to receive some of the fruit of the vineyard from the farmers.

Romans 9:4

who are Yisra’ĕ

1 Corinthians 9:7

Who serves as a soldier at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard and does not eat of its fruit? Or who shepherds a flock and does not feed on the milk of the flock?

Deuteronomy 32:6

“Do you do this to יהוה, O foolish and unwise people? Is He not your Father, who bought you, Who created you and established you?

Judges 16:4

And it came to be afterward that he loved a woman in the wadi Sorĕ