God’s Vineyard

Isaiah 5:1 ¶ Now will I sing to my wellbeloved a song of my beloved touching his vineyard. My wellbeloved hath a vineyard in a very fruitful hill:
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.
3 And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem, and men of Judah, judge, I pray you, betwixt me and my vineyard.
4 What 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?
5 And 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:
6 And 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.
7 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.

God’s Vineyard

A vineyard planted on a hill
With tender love and care
A fence about it, made of stones
A tower and winepress there.

It was the LORD’s; He carefully
Did everything He could
But when He sought for nice, sweet grapes
That fruit was not that good.

Their bitterness, perhaps a token
Of His people’s sin
He burned the hedge, removed the wall
And let the wild beasts in;

Devoured the fruit and trampled down
His vine and His fig tree
He poured upon His people, wrath
That all the world may see.

Robert Fultz – May 2, 2017

Based on Isaiah 5:1-7