The Chosen Key Word in this Chapter is “Grapes” it comes from the Hebrew Word “beushim” which means “wild, worthless grapes.”
Isaiah sings a parable about a carefully tended vineyard that produced only wild grapes. Welcome to Bible Life Basics Chapter Reviews, I am Chris and this is Isaiah 5.
Isaiah sings a song for his beloved touching his vineyard, his well-beloved having a vineyard in a very fruitful hill, fencing it, gathering out the stones, planting it with the choicest vine, building a tower in its midst, also making a winepress in it, expecting it to bring forth grapes, but it brought forth wild “grapes,” “beushim” in Hebrew, meaning worthless or stinking grapes.
Isaiah asks what more could have been done to his vineyard that he has not done in it, explaining he will take away its hedge, and it shall be eaten up, break down its wall, and it shall be trodden down, laying it waste, revealing this parable’s meaning, “For 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.”
Isaiah pronounces a series of woes against specific sins, woe to those who join house to house, and lay field to field, woe to those who rise early to follow strong drink, woe to those who draw iniquity with cords of vanity, woe to those who call evil good, and good evil, woe to those who are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight, woe to mighty men to drink wine, and men of strength to mingle strong drink, who justify the wicked for reward, and take away the righteousness of the righteous from him, closing with a description of God’s coming judgment, a nation from far, swift, whose arrows are sharp, and all their bows bent, coming like a roaring of the sea.
Isaiah’s memorable song of the vineyard, carefully tended yet producing only worthless fruit, offers a vivid, accessible parable illustrating how thoroughly God’s careful investment in Israel had been met with genuine disappointment rather than the righteousness He rightfully expected. His extensive series of woes, calling evil good and good evil, remains strikingly relevant for evaluating moral confusion and self-deception in any era.
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