Isaiah 5:1 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Bible Comments

a song. Eight sentences describe the vineyard, of which seven give the characteristics, and one (Isaiah 5:7) the result. This "song" sets forth the doom of the Vineyard: the Parable (Luke 20:9-16), the doom of the husbandmen.

hath. had.

a very fruitful. oil's son. Can it refer to David and his anointing? Compare 1 Samuel 2:10; 1 Samuel 16:13; Psalms 132:7. Compare Isaiah 5:7 -, below.

hill. horn. Hebrew. keren, always "horn" (seventy-five times). Only "hill" here.

Isaiah 5:1

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: