Isaiah · Chapter 5 King James Version

Isaiah 5:2

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The Scripture

(2) And 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.
Chapter overview (whole chapter)

Isaiah sang a parable of the LORD's vineyard, which yielded only wild grapes despite careful cultivation, representing Israel's failure to produce justice and righteousness. He then pronounced a series of woes against those who joined house to house, pursued drunkenness, and called evil good and good evil.

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