Isaiah 5:2 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Bible Comments

vine. For Israel as this vine, See Isaiah 27:2-6; Jeremiah 2:21; Jeremiah 12:10; Psalms 80:8; Hosea 10:1; Hosea 14:6-7, &c. One of the three trees to which Israel is likened: the fig. national privilege; the olive. religious privilege; the vine. spiritual privilege. See note on Judges 9:8-13,

tower. a watchtower. winepress. wine-vat. Hebrew. yekeb, not gath,. winepress. See note on Proverbs 3:10.

wild grapes. bad grapes. Hebrew. beushim, from bashash, to stink. The Hebrew word occurs only in verses: Isaiah 5:2; Isaiah 5:4.

Isaiah 5:2

2 And he fenceda it, and gathered out the stones thereof, and planted it with the choicest vine, and built a tower in the midst of it, and also made a winepress therein: and he looked that it should bring forth grapes, and it brought forth wild grapes.