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Isaiah 5:2

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

He broke up the soil, cleared it of stones, and planted it with the finest vines. He built a tower in the middle of it and even dug out a winepress there. He expected  it to yield good grapes, but it yielded worthless grapes.

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I planted you, a choice vine from the very best seed. How then could you turn into a degenerate, foreign vine?


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


Seeing in the distance a fig  tree with leaves, he went to find out if there was anything on it. When he came to it, he found nothing but leaves; for it was not the season for figs.


They are Israelites,  and to them belong the adoption,  the glory,  the covenants,  the giving of the law,  the temple service,  and the promises.


At harvest time he sent   a servant   to the farmers to collect some of the fruit   of the vineyard from them.


When the time came to harvest fruit, he sent his servants to the farmers to collect his fruit.


Seeing a lone fig tree by the road, he went up to it and found nothing on it except leaves. And he said to it, ‘May no fruit ever come from you again! ’ At once the fig tree withered.


And you, watchtower for the flock, fortified hill  of Daughter Zion, the former rule  will come to you; sovereignty will come to Daughter Jerusalem.


Israel is a lush   vine; it yields fruit for itself. The more his fruit increased, the more he increased the altars. The better his land produced, the better they made the sacred pillars.


For the vineyard of the  Lord of Armies is the house of Israel, and the men  of Judah, the plant he delighted in. He expected justice but saw injustice; he expected righteousness but heard cries of despair.


Daughter Zion  is abandoned like a shelter in a vineyard, like a shack in a cucumber field, like a besieged city.


At that time I saw people in Judah treading winepresses on the Sabbath. They were also bringing in stores of grain and loading them on donkeys, along with wine, grapes, and figs. All kinds of goods were being brought to Jerusalem on the Sabbath day. So I warned them against selling food on that day.


Some time later, he fell in love with a woman named Delilah, who lived in the Sorek Valley.


Is this how you repay the  Lord, you foolish and senseless people? Isn’t he your Father and Creator?  , Didn’t he make you and sustain you?


I see them from the top of rocky cliffs, and I watch them from the hills. There is a people living alone; it does not consider itself among the nations.


How will it be known that I and your people have found favour with you unless you go with us? I and your people will be distinguished by this from all the other people on the face of the earth.’


‘Listen   to another parable:   There was a landowner, who planted a vineyard, put a fence round it, dug a winepress in it, and built a watchtower.   He leased it to tenant farmers and went away.


He  began to speak to them in parables: ‘A man planted a vineyard,   put a fence round it, dug out a pit for a winepress, and built a watchtower. Then he leased it to tenant farmers and went away.


I will designate a place  for my people Israel and plant them,  so that they may live there and not be disturbed again. Evildoers will not continue to oppress them as they have done


‘The Lord of Armies who planted you  has decreed disaster against you, because of the disaster  the house of Israel and the house of Judah brought on themselves when they angered me by burning incense to Baal.’





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