3And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem, and men of Judah, judge, I pray you, betwixt me and my vineyard.
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When the lord therefore of the vineyard cometh, what will he do unto those husbandmen? …
Against thee, thee only, have I sinned, and done this evil in thy sight: that thou mightest be justified when thou speakest, and be clear when thou judgest.
Hear ye the word of the LORD, O house of Jacob, and all the families of the house of Israel: …
But after thy hardness and impenitent heart treasurest up unto thyself wrath against the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God;
What shall therefore the lord of the vineyard do? he will come and destroy the husbandmen, and will give the vineyard unto others. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-7)See what variety of methods the great God takes to awaken sinners to repentance by convincing them of sin, and showing them their misery and danger by reason of it. To this purport he speaks sometimes in plain terms and sometimes in parables, sometimes in prose and sometimes in verse, as here. “We have tried to reason with you (Isa. 1:18); now let us put your case into a poem, inscribed to the hon…
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