KJV King James Version
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:
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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:
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
I will sing for my beloved a song of his vineyard: My beloved had a vineyard on a very fertile hill.
WEB World English Bible
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.
ASV American Standard Version
Let me sing for my wellbeloved a song of my beloved touching his vineyard. My wellbeloved had a vineyard in a very fruitful hill:
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
Let me sing, I pray you, for my beloved, A song of my beloved as to his vineyard: My beloved hath a vineyard in a fruitful hill,
Surrounding context — 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?
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אָשִׁ֤ירָהH7891 · shirto singנָּא֙H4994 · napleaseלִֽידִידִ֔יH3039 · ye.didbelovedשִׁירַ֥תH7892 · shirsongדּוֹדִ֖יH1730 · dodbelovedלְכַרְמ֑וֹH3754 · ke.remvineyardכֶּ֛רֶםH3754 · ke.remvineyardהָיָ֥הH1961 · ha.yahto beלִֽידִידִ֖יH3039 · ye.didbelovedבְּקֶ֥רֶןH7161 · qe.renhornבֶּן־H1121 · benson: childשָֽׁמֶן׃H8081 · she.menoil
Cross-references
Mark 12:1And he began to speak unto them by parables. A [certain] man planted a vineyard, and set an hedge about [it], and digged [a place for] the winefat, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and went into a far country.Luke 20:9Then began he to speak to the people this parable; A certain man planted a vineyard, and let it forth to husbandmen, and went into a far country for a long time.John 15:1I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman.Matthew 21:33Hear another parable: There was a certain householder, which planted a vineyard, and hedged it round about, and digged a winepress in it, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and went into a far country:Jeremiah 2:21Yet I had planted thee a noble vine, wholly a right seed: how then art thou turned into the degenerate plant of a strange vine unto me?Psalm 80:8Thou hast brought a vine out of Egypt: thou hast cast out the heathen, and planted it.Deuteronomy 31:19-22Now therefore write ye this song for you, and teach it the children of Israel: put it in their mouths, that this song may be a witness for me against the children of Israel.Isaiah 27:2-3In that day sing ye unto her, A vineyard of red wine.Song of Solomon 2:16My beloved [is] mine, and I [am] his: he feedeth among the lilies.Song of Solomon 5:16His mouth [is] most sweet: yea, he [is] altogether lovely. This [is] my beloved, and this [is] my friend, O daughters of Jerusalem.Song of Solomon 8:11-12Solomon had a vineyard at Baalhamon; he let out the vineyard unto keepers; every one for the fruit thereof was to bring a thousand [pieces] of silver.Song of Solomon 6:3I [am] my beloved’s, and my beloved [is] mine: he feedeth among the lilies.Song of Solomon 5:2I sleep, but my heart waketh: [it is] the voice of my beloved that knocketh, [saying], Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled: for my head is filled with dew, [and] my locks with the drops of the night.Psalm 45:1To the chief Musician upon Shoshannim, for the sons of Korah, Maschil, A Song of loves. My heart is inditing a good matter: I speak of the things which I have made touching the king: my tongue [is] the pen of a ready writer.Judges 5:1-31Then sang Deborah and Barak the son of Abinoam on that day, saying,Psalm 101:1A Psalm of David. I will sing of mercy and judgment: unto thee, O LORD, will I sing.
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