Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version I will sing for the one I love a song about his vineyard: My loved one had a vineyard on a fertile hillside. New Living Translation Now I will sing for the one I love a song about his vineyard: My beloved had a vineyard on a rich and fertile hill. English Standard Version Let me sing for my beloved my love song concerning his vineyard: My beloved had a vineyard on a very fertile hill. Berean Standard Bible I will sing for my beloved a song of his vineyard: My beloved had a vineyard on a very fertile hill. King James Bible Now will I sing to my wellbeloved a song of my beloved touching his vineyard. My wellbeloved hath a vineyard in a very fruitful hill: New King James Version Now let me sing to my Well-beloved A song of my Beloved regarding His vineyard: My Well-beloved has a vineyard On a very fruitful hill. New American Standard Bible Let me sing now for my beloved A song of my beloved about His vineyard. My beloved had a vineyard on a fertile hill. NASB 1995 Let me sing now for my well-beloved A song of my beloved concerning His vineyard. My well-beloved had a vineyard on a fertile hill. NASB 1977 Let me sing now for my well-beloved A song of my beloved concerning His vineyard. My well-beloved had a vineyard on a fertile hill. Legacy Standard Bible Let me sing now for my well-beloved A song of my beloved concerning His vineyard. My well-beloved had a vineyard on a fertile hill. Amplified Bible Now let me sing for my greatly Beloved [LORD] A song of my Beloved about His vineyard (His chosen people). My greatly Beloved had a vineyard on a very fertile slope (the promised land, Canaan). Christian Standard Bible I will sing about the one I love, a song about my loved one’s vineyard: The one I love had a vineyard on a very fertile hill. Holman Christian Standard Bible I will sing about the one I love, a song about my loved one’s vineyard: The one I love had a vineyard on a very fertile hill. American Standard Version Let me sing for my wellbeloved a song of my beloved touching his vineyard. My wellbeloved had a vineyard in a very fruitful hill: Contemporary English Version I will sing a song about my friend's vineyard that was on the side of a fertile hill. English Revised Version Let me sing for my wellbeloved a song of my beloved touching his vineyard. My wellbeloved had a vineyard in a very fruitful hill: GOD'S WORD® Translation Let me sing a lovesong to my beloved about his vineyard: My beloved had a vineyard on a fertile hill. Good News Translation Listen while I sing you this song, a song of my friend and his vineyard: My friend had a vineyard on a very fertile hill. International Standard Version I will sing for my beloved my love-song concerning his vineyard: "The one I love had a vineyard on a very fertile hill. Majority Standard Bible I will sing for my beloved a song of his vineyard: My beloved had a vineyard on a very fertile hill. NET Bible I will sing to my love--a song to my lover about his vineyard. My love had a vineyard on a fertile hill. New Heart English Bible Let me sing for my well beloved a song of my beloved about his vineyard. My beloved had a vineyard on a very fruitful hill. Webster's Bible Translation Now will I sing to my well-beloved a song of my beloved concerning his vineyard. My well-beloved hath a vineyard in a very fruitful hill: World English Bible Let me sing for my well beloved a song of my beloved about his vineyard. My beloved had a vineyard on a very fruitful hill. Literal Translations Literal Standard VersionNow let me sing for my Beloved, "" A song of my Beloved as to His vineyard: My beloved has a vineyard in a fruitful hill, Young's Literal Translation Let me sing, I pray you, for my beloved, A song of my beloved as to his vineyard: My beloved hath a vineyard in a fruitful hill, Smith's Literal Translation I will sing now to my beloved a song of my love for his vineyard. There was a vineyard to my beloved in the horn of the son of oil: Catholic Translations Douay-Rheims BibleI WILL sing to my beloved the canticle of my cousin concerning his vineyard. My beloved had a vineyard on a hill in a fruitful place. Catholic Public Domain Version I will sing to my beloved the canticle of my paternal cousin, about his vineyard. A vineyard was made for my beloved, at the horn in the son of oil. New American Bible Now let me sing of my friend, my beloved’s song about his vineyard. My friend had a vineyard on a fertile hillside; New Revised Standard Version Let me sing for my beloved my love-song concerning his vineyard: My beloved had a vineyard on a very fertile hill. Translations from Aramaic Lamsa BibleNOW I will sing to my well-beloved a song of my beloved concerning his vineyard. My well-beloved had a vineyard on the corner of a fertile land; Peshitta Holy Bible Translated I shall sing to my beloved a song of my beloved for his vineyard: “There was a vineyard for my beloved at the corner of a heavenly country OT Translations JPS Tanakh 1917Let me sing of my well-beloved, A song of my beloved touching his vineyard. My well-beloved had a vineyard In a very fruitful hill; Brenton Septuagint Translation Now I will sing to my beloved a song of my beloved concerning my vineyard. My beloved had a vineyard on a high hill in a fertile place. Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context The Song of the Vineyard1I will sing for my beloved a song of his vineyard: My beloved had a vineyard on a very fertile hill. 2He dug it up and cleared the stones and planted the finest vines. He built a watchtower in the middle and dug out a winepress as well. He waited for the vineyard to yield good grapes, but the fruit it produced was sour!… Cross References Matthew 21:33-41 Listen to another parable: There was a landowner who planted a vineyard. He put a wall around it, dug a winepress in it, and built a tower. Then he rented it out to some tenants and went away on a journey. / When the harvest time drew near, he sent his servants to the tenants to collect his share of the fruit. / But the tenants seized his servants. They beat one, killed another, and stoned a third. ... Mark 12:1-9 Then Jesus began to speak to them in parables: “A man planted a vineyard. He put a wall around it, dug a wine vat, and built a watchtower. Then he rented it out to some tenants and went away on a journey. / At harvest time, he sent a servant to the tenants to collect his share of the fruit of the vineyard. / But they seized the servant, beat him, and sent him away empty-handed. ... Luke 20:9-16 Then He proceeded to tell the people this parable: “A man planted a vineyard, rented it out to some tenants, and went away for a long time. / At harvest time, he sent a servant to the tenants to collect his share of the fruit of the vineyard. But the tenants beat the servant and sent him away empty-handed. / So he sent another servant, but they beat him and treated him shamefully, sending him away empty-handed. ... Psalm 80:8-16 You uprooted a vine from Egypt; You drove out the nations and transplanted it. / You cleared the ground for it, and it took root and filled the land. / The mountains were covered by its shade, and the mighty cedars with its branches. ... Jeremiah 2:21 I had planted you like a choice vine from the very best seed. How could you turn yourself before Me into a rotten, wild vine? John 15:1-8 “I am the true vine, and My Father is the keeper of the vineyard. / He cuts off every branch in Me that bears no fruit, and every branch that does bear fruit, He prunes to make it even more fruitful. / You are already clean because of the word I have spoken to you. ... Hosea 10:1 Israel was a luxuriant vine, yielding fruit for himself. The more his fruit increased, the more he increased the altars. The better his land produced, the better he made the sacred pillars. Ezekiel 15:1-8 Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying, / “Son of man, how does the wood of the vine surpass any other branch among the trees in the forest? / Can wood be taken from it to make something useful? Or can one make from it a peg on which to hang utensils? ... Romans 11:17-24 Now if some branches have been broken off, and you, a wild olive shoot, have been grafted in among the others to share in the nourishment of the olive root, / do not boast over those branches. If you do, remember this: You do not support the root, but the root supports you. / You will say then, “Branches were broken off so that I could be grafted in.” ... Jeremiah 12:10 Many shepherds have destroyed My vineyard; they have trampled My plot of ground. They have turned My pleasant field into a desolate wasteland. Deuteronomy 32:32-33 But their vine is from the vine of Sodom and from the fields of Gomorrah. Their grapes are poisonous; their clusters are bitter. / Their wine is the venom of serpents, the deadly poison of cobras. Micah 7:1 Woe is me! For I am like one gathering summer fruit at the gleaning of the vineyard; there is no cluster to eat, no early fig that I crave. Song of Solomon 8:11-12 Solomon had a vineyard in Baal-hamon. He leased it to the tenants. For its fruit, each was to bring a thousand shekels of silver. / But my own vineyard is mine to give; the thousand shekels are for you, O Solomon, and two hundred are for those who tend its fruit. 1 Corinthians 3:6-9 I planted the seed and Apollos watered it, but God made it grow. / So neither he who plants nor he who waters is anything, but only God, who makes things grow. / He who plants and he who waters are one in purpose, and each will be rewarded according to his own labor. ... Hebrews 6:7-8 For land that drinks in the rain often falling on it and that produces a crop useful to those for whom it is tended receives the blessing of God. / But land that produces thorns and thistles is worthless, and its curse is imminent. In the end it will be burned. Treasury of Scripture Now will I sing to my well beloved a song of my beloved touching his vineyard. My well beloved has a vineyard in a very fruitful hill: now Deuteronomy 31:19-22 Now therefore write ye this song for you, and teach it the children of Israel: put it in their mouths, that this song may be a witness for me against the children of Israel… Judges 5:1 Then sang Deborah and Barak the son of Abinoam on that day, saying, Psalm 45:1 To the chief Musician upon Shoshannim, for the sons of Korah, Maschil, A Song of loves. My heart is inditing a good matter: I speak of the things which I have made touching the king: my tongue is the pen of a ready writer. well beloved Song of Solomon 2:16 My beloved is mine, and I am his: he feedeth among the lilies. Song of Solomon 5:2,16 I sleep, but my heart waketh: it is the voice of my beloved that knocketh, saying, Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled: for my head is filled with dew, and my locks with the drops of the night… Song of Solomon 6:3 I am my beloved's, and my beloved is mine: he feedeth among the lilies. touching Isaiah 27:2,3 In that day sing ye unto her, A vineyard of red wine… Psalm 80:8 Thou hast brought a vine out of Egypt: thou hast cast out the heathen, and planted it. Song of Solomon 8:11,12 Solomon had a vineyard at Baalhamon; he let out the vineyard unto keepers; every one for the fruit thereof was to bring a thousand pieces of silver… a very fruitful hill. Jump to Previous Beloved Fertile Fruitful Hill Hillside Love Sing Song Touching Vine-Garden Vineyard Wellbeloved Well-BelovedJump to Next Beloved Fertile Fruitful Hill Hillside Love Sing Song Touching Vine-Garden Vineyard Wellbeloved Well-BelovedIsaiah 5 1. Under the parable of a vineyard, God excuses his severe judgment8. His judgments upon covetousness 11. Upon lasciviousness 13. Upon impiety 20. And upon injustice 26. The executioners of God's judgments I will sing The phrase "I will sing" indicates a personal and intentional act of expression. In Hebrew, the word used here is "אָשִׁירָה" (ashirah), which conveys a sense of joy and celebration. Singing in the biblical context often signifies a proclamation of truth or a declaration of God's deeds. This sets the tone for the passage, suggesting that what follows is not merely a account but a message of deep significance, meant to be shared and remembered. for my beloved a song of his vineyard My beloved had a vineyard on a very fertile hill (1) Now will I sing to my wellbeloved.--Literally, Now let me sing. The chapter bears every mark of being a distinct composition, perhaps the most elaborately finished in the whole of Isaiah. The parable with which it opens has for us the interest of having obviously supplied a starting-point for a later prophet (Jeremiah 2:21), and for our Lord's teaching in the like parable of Matthew 21:33-41. Here, however, there is the distinctive touch of the irony of the opening verse. The prophet presents himself, as it were, in the character of a minstrel, ready to sing to his hearers one of the love-songs in which their culture delighted (Amos 6:5.) In its language and rhythm it reminds us of the Song of Solomon. The very word "beloved" recalls Song of Solomon 5:1-2; the description of the vineyards, that of Song of Solomon 8:11-13. The probability that the parallelism was intentional is increased by the coincidence of Isaiah 7:23, and Song of Solomon 8:11, which will meet us further on. On this assumption Isaiah's words have a special interest as showing how early that poem lent itself to a mystical interpretation. One might almost conjecture that the prophet allured the people to listen by music as well as words, and appeared, as Elisha and other prophets had done, with harp or pipe in hand (2Kings 3:15; 1Samuel 10:5; 1Samuel 16:23; Isaiah 30:29). The frequency of such hymns (Isaiah 12, 25, Isaiah 26:1-4) shows, at any rate, that the prophet had received the training of a psalmist. (See Introduction.) . . . Verses 1-7. - ISRAEL REBUKED BY THE PARABLE OF A VINEYARD. This chapter stands in a certain sense alone, neither closely connected with what precedes nor with what follows, excepting that it breathes throughout a tone of denunciation. There is also a want of connection between its parts, the allegory of the first section being succeeded by a series of rebukes for sins, expressed in the plainest language, and the rebukes being followed by a threat of punishment, also expressed with plainness. The resemblance of the parable with which the chapter opens to one of those delivered by our Lord, and recorded in the three synoptic Gospels (Matthew 21:33-41; Mark 12:1-9; Luke 20:9-16), has been frequently noticed. Verse 1. - Now will I sing to my Well-beloved. The prophet sings to Jehovah a song concerning his vineyard. The song consists of eight lines, beginning with "My Well-beloved," and ending with "wild grapes." It is in a lively, dancing measure, very unlike the general style of Isaiah's poetry. The name "Well-beloved" seems to be taken by the prophet from the Song of Songs, where it occurs above twenty times. It well expresses the feeling of a loving soul towards its Creator and Redeemer. A song of my Well-beloved. Bishop Lowth translates "A song of loves," and Mr. Cheyne "A love-song;" but this requires an alteration of the text, and is unsatisfactory from the fact that the song which follows is not a "love-song." May we not understand the words to mean "a song concerning my Well-beloved in respect of his vineyard?" Touching his vineyard. Israel is compared to a "vine" in the Psalms (Psalm 80:8-16), and the Church of God to a "garden" in Canticles (Song of Solomon 4:12; Song of Solomon 5:1); perhaps also to a "vineyard" in the same book (Song of Solomon 8:12). Isaiah may have had this last passage in his mind. My Beloved hath a vineyard; rather, had a vineyard (ἀμπελὼν ἑγενήθη τῷ ἠγαπημένῳ, LXX.). In a very fruitful hill. So the passage is generally understood, since keren, horn, is used for a height by the Arabs (as also by the Germans, e.g. Matterhorn, Wetterhorn, Aarhorn, etc.), and "son of oil" is a not unlikely Orientalism for "rich" or "fruitful." With the "hill" of this passage compare the "mountain" of Isaiah 2:2, both passages indicating that the Church of God is set on aft eminence, and "cannot be hid" (Matthew 5:14).Parallel Commentaries ... Hebrew I will singאָשִׁ֤ירָה (’ā·šî·rāh) Verb - Qal - Imperfect Cohortative - first person common singular Strong's 7891: To sing for my beloved, לִֽידִידִ֔י (lî·ḏî·ḏî) Preposition-l | Noun - masculine singular construct | first person common singular Strong's 3039: Beloved a song שִׁירַ֥ת (šî·raṯ) Noun - feminine singular construct Strong's 7892: A song, singing of [his] דּוֹדִ֖י (dō·w·ḏî) Noun - masculine singular construct | first person common singular Strong's 1730: To love, a love-token, lover, friend, an uncle vineyard: לְכַרְמ֑וֹ (lə·ḵar·mōw) Preposition-l | Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine singular Strong's 3754: A garden, vineyard My beloved לִֽידִידִ֖י (lî·ḏî·ḏî) Preposition-l | Noun - masculine singular construct | first person common singular Strong's 3039: Beloved had הָיָ֥ה (hā·yāh) Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person masculine singular Strong's 1961: To fall out, come to pass, become, be a vineyard כֶּ֛רֶם (ke·rem) Noun - masculine singular Strong's 3754: A garden, vineyard on a very fertile בֶּן־ (ben-) Noun - masculine singular construct Strong's 1121: A son hill. בְּקֶ֥רֶן (bə·qe·ren) Preposition-b | Noun - feminine singular construct Strong's 7161: A horn, a flask, cornet, an elephant's tooth, a corner, a peak, a ray, power Links Isaiah 5:1 NIVIsaiah 5:1 NLT Isaiah 5:1 ESV Isaiah 5:1 NASB Isaiah 5:1 KJV Isaiah 5:1 BibleApps.com Isaiah 5:1 Biblia Paralela Isaiah 5:1 Chinese Bible Isaiah 5:1 French Bible Isaiah 5:1 Catholic Bible OT Prophets: Isaiah 5:1 Let me sing for my well beloved (Isa Isi Is) |
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