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Parable of the Vineyard

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).(A)

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He dug it all around and cleared away its stones,
And planted it with [a]the choicest vine (the people of Judah).
And He built a tower in the center of it;
And also hewed out a [b]wine vat in it.
Then He expected it to produce [the choicest] grapes,
But it produced only worthless ones.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 5:2 Lit a bright red grape.
  2. Isaiah 5:2 This was the lower of two hollowed-out reservoirs made in the soft rock, one above the other, connected by a channel that allowed the juice pressed out in the upper reservoir to flow to the lower.


In that day [it will be said of the redeemed nation of Israel],
“A vineyard of [a]wine, sing in praise of it!

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 27:2 So DSS; MT reads beauty.


“I, the Lord, am its Keeper;
I water it every moment.
So that no one will harm it,
I guard it night and day.

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