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Let me sing for my well beloved a song of my beloved about his vineyard. My beloved had a vineyard on a very fruitful hill. See also: Mark 12:1Luke 20:9John 15:1He dug it up, gathered out its stones, planted it with the choicest vine, built a tower in the middle of it, and also cut out a wine press in it. He looked for it to yield grapes, but it yielded wild grapes. See also: Jeremiah 2:21Deuteronomy 32:32-33Isaiah 1:2-4“Now, inhabitants of Jerusalem and men of Judah, please judge between me and my vineyard. See also: Luke 20:15-16Matthew 21:40-41Romans 2:5What could have been done more to my vineyard, that I have not done in it? Why, when I looked for it to yield grapes, did it yield wild grapes? See also: Matthew 23:37Micah 6:3-4Acts 7:51-60Now I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard. I will take away its hedge, and it will be eaten up. I will break down its wall, and it will be trampled down. See also: Isaiah 28:18Luke 21:24Lamentations 1:15I will lay it a wasteland. It won’t be pruned or hoed, but it will grow briers and thorns. I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain on it.” See also: Isaiah 7:23-25Jeremiah 25:11Isaiah 24:1-3For the vineyard of the LORD of Armies is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasant plant. He looked for justice, but behold, oppression, for righteousness, but behold, a cry of distress. See also: Psalms 80:8-11Matthew 3:8-10James 5:4Woe to those who join house to house, who lay field to field, until there is no room, and you are made to dwell alone in the middle of the land! See also: Micah 2:2Habakkuk 2:9-12Jeremiah 22:13-17In my ears, the LORD of Armies says: “Surely many houses will be desolate, even great and beautiful, unoccupied. See also: Matthew 23:38Amos 5:11Amos 3:7For ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and a homer of seed shall yield an ephah.” See also: Leviticus 26:26Haggai 2:16Haggai 1:6Woe to those who rise up early in the morning, that they may follow strong drink, who stay late into the night, until wine inflames them! See also: Proverbs 23:29-30Proverbs 20:1Romans 13:13The harp, lyre, tambourine, and flute, with wine, are at their feasts; but they don’t respect the work of the LORD, neither have they considered the operation of his hands. See also: Psalms 28:5Job 34:27Job 21:11-14Therefore my people go into captivity for lack of knowledge. Their honorable men are famished, and their multitudes are parched with thirst. See also: Hosea 4:6Isaiah 1:3Isaiah 1:7Therefore Sheol has enlarged its desire, and opened its mouth without measure; and their glory, their multitude, their pomp, and he who rejoices among them, descend into it. See also: Proverbs 30:16Habakkuk 2:5Luke 21:34So man is brought low, mankind is humbled, and the eyes of the arrogant ones are humbled; See also: Isaiah 2:11Isaiah 2:9Jeremiah 5:4-5but the LORD of Armies is exalted in justice, and God the Holy One is sanctified in righteousness. See also: Psalms 46:101 Chronicles 29:11Isaiah 12:4Then the lambs will graze as in their pasture, and strangers will eat the ruins of the rich. See also: Zephaniah 2:6Isaiah 7:25Zephaniah 2:14Woe to those who draw iniquity with cords of falsehood, and wickedness as with cart rope, See also: Jeremiah 23:14Ezekiel 13:22Jeremiah 23:10who say, “Let him make haste, let him hasten his work, that we may see it; let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel draw near and come, that we may know it!” See also: Ezekiel 12:22Jeremiah 17:15Jeremiah 5:12-13Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil; who put darkness for light, and light for darkness; who put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter! See also: Proverbs 17:152 Timothy 3:1-5Luke 16:15Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight! See also: 1 Corinthians 3:18-20Proverbs 3:7Romans 12:16Woe to those who are mighty to drink wine, and champions at mixing strong drink; See also: Isaiah 5:11Habakkuk 2:15Isaiah 28:7who acquit the guilty for a bribe, but deny justice for the innocent! See also: Isaiah 10:2Psalms 94:21James 5:6Therefore as the tongue of fire devours the stubble, and as the dry grass sinks down in the flame, so their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust, because they have rejected the law of the LORD of Armies, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel. See also: Luke 3:17Job 18:16Joel 2:5Therefore the LORD’s anger burns against his people, and he has stretched out his hand against them and has struck them. The mountains tremble, and their dead bodies are as refuse in the middle of the streets. For all this, his anger is not turned away, but his hand is still stretched out. See also: Isaiah 10:4Isaiah 9:21Isaiah 9:17He will lift up a banner to the nations from far away, and he will whistle for them from the end of the earth. Behold, they will come speedily and swiftly. See also: Zechariah 10:8Deuteronomy 28:49Isaiah 7:18No one shall be weary nor stumble among them; no one shall slumber nor sleep, neither shall the belt of their waist be untied, nor the strap of their sandals be broken, See also: Joel 2:7-8Job 12:18Job 12:21whose arrows are sharp, and all their bows bent. Their horses’ hoofs will be like flint, and their wheels like a whirlwind. See also: Psalms 45:5Ezekiel 21:9-11Nahum 2:3-4Their roaring will be like a lioness. They will roar like young lions. Yes, they shall roar, and seize their prey and carry it off, and there will be no one to deliver. See also: Isaiah 42:22Micah 5:8Zechariah 11:3They will roar against them in that day like the roaring of the sea. If one looks to the land, behold, darkness and distress. The light is darkened in its clouds. See also: Isaiah 8:22Joel 2:10Jeremiah 4:23-28
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Notes · Haydock (1859, public domain)26 notes
Notes in English 19th-century Catholic commentary by Fr. George Leo Haydock, shown as published.
These notes keep the polemics of their time: some speak harshly of the Jewish people or of other Christians. The Church teaches otherwise today. The Jewish people may not be blamed for the death of Christ (Nostra Aetate 4; Catechism 597–598), and Christians of other communities are our brothers and sisters in the Lord (Unitatis Redintegratio 3). Christian unity
Isaiah 5:1
Ver. 1. My cousin. So the prophet calls Christ, as being of his family and kindred, by descending from the house of David. Ch. M. --- Heb. and Sept.
"beloved." Dod may also mean a near relation. C. --- Isaias being of the same tribe, sets before us the lamentations of Christ over Jerusalem. Lu. xix. 41. W.
--- The Hebrews had canticles of sorrow, as well as of joy. The prophet thus endeavours to impress more deeply on the minds of the people what he had been saying. The master of the vineyard is God himself. v. 7. C. --- Hill. Lit. in the horn, the son of oil. Ch. --- The best vines grew among olive and fig trees.
Doubdan 21. --- Sept. "in a horn, ( mountain) in a fat soil." H.
↑ 1Isaiah 5:2
Ver. 2. Stones. They burn and starve in different seasons. Col. xii. 3. ---
Choicest. Heb. sorek.
H. --- There was a famous valley of this name. Judg. xvi. 4. The angels guarded the vineyard, in which Abraham, Moses, &c. were found. --- Tower. To keep the wine, &c. Mat. xxi. 33. It denotes the temple, (C.) Scriptures, &c. M. --- Wild.
Sour. Deut. xxxii. 32.
↑ 2Isaiah 5:3
Ver. 3. Judge. God condescends to have his conduct scrutinized. C. xli. 1.
↑ 3Isaiah 5:4
Ver. 4. Was it. "Why has it produced wild grapes, while I looked?" &c.
↑ 4Isaiah 5:5
Ver. 5. Down. By the Chaldees, and after the death of Christ. C. --- when God withdraws his aid, man is unable to stand. Yet he falls by his own fault, which God only permits. W.
↑ 5Isaiah 5:6
Ver. 6. It. During the whole of the captivity, the land might keep its sabbaths.
Lev. xxvi. 34. C.
--- The people shall be deprived of saving doctrine. M.
↑ 6Isaiah 5:7
Ver. 7. Israel. This comparison is very common. Ps. lxxix. 9. Mat. xx. 1. C. ---
The preceding parable is explained. M. --- Cry. For vengeance. Jer. xii. 8. Gen.
iv. 10. and xviii. 20. C.
↑ 7Isaiah 5:8
Ver. 8. Even. Sept. "to take from your neighbour: shall," &c. H.
↑ 8Isaiah 5:9
Ver. 9. Things. Unjust practices. --- Inhabitant. What will your avarice avail, (H.) since you must abandon all? C.
↑ 9Isaiah 5:10
Ver. 10. Measure. Heb. "both." --- Thirty. Heb. "a chomer shall yield an epha."
↑ 10Isaiah 5:11
Ver. 11. To follow. Heb. "for shecar," (C.) palm wine, (Theod.) or any inebriating liquor. S. Jer.
in C. xxviii. Our version is conformable to Aquila and Sym. H. --- Num. vi. 3.
Eccle. x. 16.
↑ 11Isaiah 5:12
Ver. 12. Work. Chastisement. v. 19. and c. xxviii. 21. C. --- They are admonished to observe the festivals of the Lord, and not to indulge in riotousness. W.
↑ 12Isaiah 5:14
Ver. 14. Hell. Or the grave, which never says enough. Prov. xxx. 15. Isaias alludes to what should happen under Nabuchodonosor, as if it were past. G.
↑ 14Isaiah 5:16
Ver. 16. Justice. All will be taught to adore him. H.
↑ 16Isaiah 5:17
Ver. 17. Strangers. Ammonites, &c. (C.) shall occupy part of the land. H.
↑ 17Isaiah 5:18
Ver. 18. Cart. Fatiguing themselves with iniquity, (Wisd. v. 7. C.) and delaying your conversion. S. Isid. M.
↑ 18Isaiah 5:19
Ver. 19. It. The Jews were often guilty of the like insolence. Jer. xvii. 15.
↑ 19Isaiah 5:21
Ver. 21. Conceits. Blind guides. Mat. xv. 14.
↑ 21Isaiah 5:22
Ver. 22. Drink. Heb. "mix shecar." People generally mixed wine and water. They also strove who could drink most, and the Greeks had a feast for this purpose, (C.) which they styled Choas, for the measure which was to be swallowed down. Aristoph. Acharn. act. iv. 4. and 5. ult. ---
Cyrus the younger boasted to the Gr. ambassadors, that "he could drink and bear more wine than his brother." Plut. in Artax.
↑ 22Isaiah 5:23
Ver. 23. Justice. Declaring the righteous guilty. v. 20. H.
↑ 23Isaiah 5:25
Ver. 25. Still. After the ruin of Jerusalem, the people were led away. C. ---
Grievous sins must be severely punished, as was that of the murderers of Christ. W.
↑ 25Isaiah 5:26
Ver. 26. Off. Like a king, leading all his subjects to battle. C. --- Whistle. He alludes to the custom of leading forth bees by music. C. vii. 18. S. Cyr. ---
Earth. The Chaldees, (c. xli. 9. Jer.
vi. 22.) and not the Romans, as some would suppose. --- Swiftly. Like an eagle.
Dan. vii. 4. Jer.
xlviii. 40.
↑ 26Isaiah 5:27
Ver. 27. Broken. They shall march incessantly. Ezec. xxvi. 7. and xxx. 11.
↑ 27Isaiah 5:28
Ver. 28. Hoofs. They were hardened, but not shod. Xenoph. Amos vi. 13.
↑ 28Isaiah 5:29
Ver. 29. Lion. Nabuchodonosor is compared to one. v. 26. Jer. iv. 7.
↑ 29Isaiah 5:30
Ver. 30. Mist. Denoting calamity. Heb. "ruin." Sept. "indigence." C.
↑ 30License: Notes by Fr. George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), from the Douay-Rheims Bible with Haydock's commentary (first ed. Thomas Haydock, Manchester/Dublin, 1811–1814; New York: Edward Dunigan & Brother, 1859); New Testament notes compiled with Fr. Benedict Rayment. Public domain. Digital text: "The Haydock Bible", Internet Archive (archive.org/details/TheHaydockBible), uploaded 2011 under the Public Domain Mark. · Credits and licenses