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Isaiah 5:1

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:

KJV

Cantabo dilecto meo canticum patruelis mei vineæ suæ. Vinea facta est dilecto meo in cornu filio olei.

Vulgate

ᾌσω δὴ τῷ ἠγαπημένῳ ᾆσμα τοῦ ἀγαπητοῦ μου τῷ ἀμπελῶνί μου. ἀμπελὼν ἐγενήθη τῷ ἠγαπημένῳ ἐν κέρατι ἐν τόπῳ πίονι.

LXX

Let me sing for my wellbeloved a song of my beloved touching his vineyard. My wellbeloved had a vineyard in a very fruitful hill:

ASV

אָשִׁ֤ירָה נָּא֙ לִֽ/ידִידִ֔/י שִׁירַ֥ת דּוֹדִ֖/י לְ/כַרְמ֑/וֹ כֶּ֛רֶם הָיָ֥ה לִֽ/ידִידִ֖/י בְּ/קֶ֥רֶן בֶּן שָֽׁמֶן

Hebrew

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In this verse

Symbols Vine

In the original Hebrew

10 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

בֶּן
bn
noun · 4909×
ו
v
noun · 74×
י
y
noun · 60×
י
y
noun · 9×
י
y
noun · 92×
יְהִי֙
yhy
verb · 3549×
מְשֹׁ֣רְרִ֔ים
mshrrym
verb · 85×
נָ֣א
n'
particle · 403×
שִׁ֥יר
shyr
noun · 91×
שֶּׁ֖מֶן
shmn
noun · 191×

Intertextual echoes

Quoted or echoed by 1 later passage.

  • Matt 21:33 · allusion
    "Hear another parable: There was a certain householder, which planted a vineyard, and hedged it round about, and digged a winepress in it, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and went into a far country:"
    Isaiah: vineyard song — Jesus' parable of the wicked tenants

Themes

Historic Christian voices

4 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

2. Knowing therefore these things, let us neither pride ourselves on children that are of good report, unless we have their virtue; nor upon noble fathers, unless we be like them in disposition. For it is possible, both that he who begot a man should not be his father, and that he who did not beget him should be. Therefore in another place also, when some woman had said, Blesse…

Cross-references

  • Col 3:16 — Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord.
  • Deut 31:19 — 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.
  • Eccl 2:4 — I made me great works; I builded me houses; I planted me vineyards:
  • Ezek 15:2 — Son of man, What is the vine tree more than any tree, or than a branch which is among the trees of the forest?
  • Heb 6:8 — But that which beareth thorns and briers is rejected, and is nigh unto cursing; whose end is to be burned.
  • Hos 10:1 — Israel is an empty vine, he bringeth forth fruit unto himself: according to the multitude of his fruit he hath increased the altars; according to the goodness of his land they have made goodly images.
  • Isa 1:2 — Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth: for the LORD hath spoken, I have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against me.
  • Isa 27:2 — In that day sing ye unto her, A vineyard of red wine.
  • Jer 2:21 — Yet I had planted thee a noble vine, wholly a right seed: how then art thou turned into the degenerate plant of a strange vine unto me?
  • Jer 12:10 — Many pastors have destroyed my vineyard, they have trodden my portion under foot, they have made my pleasant portion a desolate wilderness.
  • Jer 28:8 — The prophets that have been before me and before thee of old prophesied both against many countries, and against great kingdoms, of war, and of evil, and of pestilence.
  • John 15:1 — I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman.
  • John 15:1 — I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman.
  • Luke 13:6 — He spake also this parable; A certain man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard; and he came and sought fruit thereon, and found none.
  • Luke 20:9 — Then began he to speak to the people this parable; A certain man planted a vineyard, and let it forth to husbandmen, and went into a far country for a long time.
  • Luke 20:9 — Then began he to speak to the people this parable; A certain man planted a vineyard, and let it forth to husbandmen, and went into a far country for a long time.
  • Mark 12:1 — And he began to speak unto them by parables. A certain man planted a vineyard, and set an hedge about it, and digged a place for the winefat, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and went
  • Mark 12:1 — And he began to speak unto them by parables. A certain man planted a vineyard, and set an hedge about it, and digged a place for the winefat, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and went
  • Matt 13:3 — And he spake many things unto them in parables, saying, Behold, a sower went forth to sow;
  • Matt 20:1 — For the kingdom of heaven is like unto a man that is an householder, which went out early in the morning to hire labourers into his vineyard.
  • Matt 21:33 — Hear another parable: There was a certain householder, which planted a vineyard, and hedged it round about, and digged a winepress in it, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and went into
  • Matt 21:33 — Hear another parable: There was a certain householder, which planted a vineyard, and hedged it round about, and digged a winepress in it, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and went into
  • Ps 45:1 — 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.
  • Ps 80:8 — Thou hast brought a vine out of Egypt: thou hast cast out the heathen, and planted it.
  • Ps 80:8 — Thou hast brought a vine out of Egypt: thou hast cast out the heathen, and planted it.
  • Ps 147:20 — He hath not dealt so with any nation: and as for his judgments, they have not known them. Praise ye the LORD.
  • Song 2:16 — My beloved is mine, and I am his: he feedeth among the lilies.
  • Song 5:2 — 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
  • Song 5:16 — His mouth is most sweet: yea, he is altogether lovely. This is my beloved, and this is my friend, O daughters of Jerusalem.
  • Song 6:3 — I am my beloved’s, and my beloved is mine: he feedeth among the lilies.
  • Song 8:11 — 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.