Isaiah 5
King James Version · 30 verses · 1,053 cross-references linking it to 451 other chapters
Explore Isaiah 5 in the interactive map- 1Now will I sing to my wellbeloved a song of my beloved touching his vineyard. My wellbeloved hath a vineyard in a very fruitful hill:53 cross-references: Mark 12:1, Luke 20:9, John 15:1, Psalms 80:8, Matthew 21:33
- 2And he fenced 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.42 cross-references: Jeremiah 2:21, Deuteronomy 32:32–33, Isaiah 1:2–4, Mark 11:13, 1 Corinthians 9:7
- 3And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem, and men of Judah, judge, I pray you, betwixt me and my vineyard.22 cross-references: Romans 3:4, Psalms 51:4, Jeremiah 2:4–5, Romans 2:5, Psalms 50:4–6
- 4What could have been done more to my vineyard, that I have not done in it? wherefore, when I looked that it should bring forth grapes, brought it forth wild grapes?30 cross-references: Matthew 23:37, Micah 6:3–4, Acts 7:51–60, Jeremiah 2:5, Isaiah 1:5
- 5And now go to; I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard: I will take away the hedge thereof, and it shall be eaten up; and break down the wall thereof, and it shall be trodden down:51 cross-references: Lamentations 1:15, Isaiah 28:18, Luke 21:24, Genesis 11:4, Deuteronomy 28:49–52
- 6And I will lay it waste: it shall not be pruned, nor digged; but there shall come up briers and thorns: I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it.55 cross-references: Isaiah 7:23–25, Jeremiah 25:11, 2 Chronicles 36:19–21, Isaiah 24:1–3, Zechariah 14:16–17
- 7For the vineyard of the Lord of hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasant plant: and he looked for judgment, but behold oppression; for righteousness, but behold a cry.68 cross-references: Psalms 80:8–11, James 5:4, Matthew 3:8–10, Micah 6:8, Zephaniah 3:17
- 8Woe unto them that join house to house, that lay field to field, till there be no place, that they may be placed alone in the midst of the earth!24 cross-references: Micah 2:2, Habakkuk 2:9–12, Jeremiah 22:13–17, 1 Kings 21:16–20, Luke 12:16–24
- 9In mine ears said the Lord of hosts, Of a truth many houses shall be desolate, even great and fair, without inhabitant.25 cross-references: Matthew 23:38, Isaiah 22:14, Amos 3:7, Amos 5:11, Amos 6:11
- 10Yea, ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and the seed of an homer shall yield an ephah.17 cross-references: Leviticus 26:26, Haggai 1:6, Haggai 2:16, Leviticus 27:16, Ezekiel 45:10–11
- 11Woe unto them that rise up early in the morning, that they may follow strong drink; that continue until night, till wine inflame them!38 cross-references: Proverbs 23:29–30, Romans 13:13, Proverbs 20:1, Isaiah 5:22, Ecclesiastes 10:16–17
- 12And the harp, and the viol, the tabret, and pipe, and wine, are in their feasts: but they regard not the work of the Lord, neither consider the operation of his hands.41 cross-references: Job 21:11–14, Amos 6:4–6, Job 34:27, Psalms 28:5, Daniel 5:23
- 13Therefore my people are gone into captivity, because they have no knowledge: and their honourable men are famished, and their multitude dried up with thirst.33 cross-references: Hosea 4:6, Isaiah 1:3, Isaiah 27:11, Isaiah 1:7, Romans 1:28
- 14Therefore hell hath enlarged herself, and opened her mouth without measure: and their glory, and their multitude, and their pomp, and he that rejoiceth, shall descend into it.33 cross-references: Luke 21:34, Habakkuk 2:5, Proverbs 30:16, Matthew 7:13, Proverbs 27:20
- 15And the mean man shall be brought down, and the mighty man shall be humbled, and the eyes of the lofty shall be humbled:27 cross-references: Isaiah 2:11, Isaiah 2:9, Jeremiah 5:4–5, Isaiah 10:33, Daniel 4:37
- 16But the Lord of hosts shall be exalted in judgment, and God that is holy shall be sanctified in righteousness.49 cross-references: Psalms 46:10, Isaiah 12:4, 1 Chronicles 29:11, 1 Peter 2:15, Ezekiel 36:23
- 17Then shall the lambs feed after their manner, and the waste places of the fat ones shall strangers eat.34 cross-references: Zephaniah 2:6, Isaiah 7:25, Zephaniah 2:14, Psalms 17:10, Hosea 8:7
- 18Woe unto them that draw iniquity with cords of vanity, and sin as it were with a cart rope:33 cross-references: Jeremiah 23:14, Psalms 36:2, Jeremiah 5:31, Jeremiah 23:10, Ezekiel 13:22
- 19That say, Let him make speed, and hasten his work, that we may see it: and let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel draw nigh and come, that we may know it!30 cross-references: Ezekiel 12:22, Jeremiah 17:15, Jeremiah 23:36, 2 Peter 3:3–4, Amos 5:18–19
- 20Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!22 cross-references: Proverbs 17:15, 2 Timothy 3:1–5, Luke 16:15, Malachi 2:17, Job 17:12
- 21Woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight!29 cross-references: 1 Corinthians 3:18–20, Proverbs 3:7, Romans 12:16, Proverbs 26:12, Proverbs 26:16
- 22Woe unto them that are mighty to drink wine, and men of strength to mingle strong drink:21 cross-references: Isaiah 5:11, Habakkuk 2:15, Isaiah 28:7, Proverbs 23:19–20, Isaiah 56:12
- 23Which justify the wicked for reward, and take away the righteousness of the righteous from him!29 cross-references: Isaiah 10:2, Psalms 94:21, Proverbs 17:15, James 5:6, Micah 7:3
- 24Therefore as the fire devoureth the stubble, and the flame consumeth the chaff, so their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust: because they have cast away the law of the Lord of hosts, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.60 cross-references: Isaiah 30:12, Job 18:16, Joel 2:5, Luke 3:17, Isaiah 30:9
- 25Therefore is the anger of the Lord kindled against his people, and he hath stretched forth his hand against them, and hath smitten them: and the hills did tremble, and their carcases were torn in the midst of the streets. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.67 cross-references: Isaiah 9:21, Isaiah 10:4, Isaiah 9:17, 2 Kings 9:37, Jeremiah 4:24
- 26And he will lift up an ensign to the nations from far, and will hiss unto them from the end of the earth: and, behold, they shall come with speed swiftly:38 cross-references: Zechariah 10:8, Isaiah 7:18, Deuteronomy 28:49, Isaiah 18:3, Isaiah 11:12
- 27None shall be weary nor stumble among them; none shall slumber nor sleep; neither shall the girdle of their loins be loosed, nor the latchet of their shoes be broken:16 cross-references: Joel 2:7–8, Job 12:18, Job 12:21, Daniel 5:6, Psalms 18:32
- 28Whose arrows are sharp, and all their bows bent, their horses’ hoofs shall be counted like flint, and their wheels like a whirlwind:22 cross-references: Psalms 45:5, Ezekiel 21:9–11, Nahum 2:3–4, Micah 4:13, Psalms 7:12–13
- 29Their roaring shall be like a lion, they shall roar like young lions: yea, they shall roar, and lay hold of the prey, and shall carry it away safe, and none shall deliver it.27 cross-references: Zechariah 11:3, Isaiah 42:22, Micah 5:8, Isaiah 49:24–25, Jeremiah 51:38
- 30And in that day they shall roar against them like the roaring of the sea: and if one look unto the land, behold darkness and sorrow, and the light is darkened in the heavens thereof.31 cross-references: Isaiah 8:22, Joel 2:10, Jeremiah 4:23–28, Revelation 16:10–11, Luke 21:25–26
Explained connections
- The vineyard
Isaiah's song tells of a carefully planted vineyard that yields only wild grapes: Israel. Jesus' parable begins with the same details — hedge, winepress, tower — so his hearers knew the vineyard was Israel and its tenants were their leaders.
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