Isaiah 5:2 — text, Greek, lexicon

Isaiah 5:2Isa.5.2

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.

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Translations

Louis Segond 1910

Il en remua le sol, ôta les pierres, et y mit un plant délicieux; Il bâtit une tour au milieu d'elle, Et il y creusa aussi une cuve. Puis il espéra qu'elle produirait de bons raisins, Mais elle en a produit de mauvais.

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Isaiah 5:1–77 verses

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Eucherius of Lyon
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Eucherius of Lyon
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angels. In the Song of Isaiah: "I will make a wall around it and affix poles and plant a vineyard" (Isaiah 5:2). A house represents the soul where Christ dwells or the Church. As the Psalm says: "We will go into the house of the Lord" (Psalm 122:1). The upper room signifies the h…
Arnobius the Younger
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the Holy Spirit speaks of through Isaiah: 'I built a tower in the middle of the vineyard I planted' (Isaiah 5:2). The Holy Spirit himself explains this vineyard, saying: 'The vineyard of the Lord of Hosts is the house of Israel' (Isaiah 5:7). And the tower that he says he built i…

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