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.
KJV
Hebrew original
Louis Segond 1910
La vigne de l'Eternel des armées, c'est la maison d'Israël, Et les hommes de Juda, c'est le plant qu'il chérissait. Il avait espéré de la droiture, et voici du sang versé! De la justice, et voici des cris de détresse!
KJV
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.
Dionysius Alexandrinus
Epistolae II Dionysii Episcopi ad SS Dionysium
res nnneupantur, quemad modum dixit Deus : Expectavi ut faceret judicium, fecit autem iniquitatem ( Isa., 5, 7). του̃ ποιήσαι ϰρισιν, έποιησε δέ άνομιαν. (Adducta haec a S. Athanasio, ubi supra, n. xx, p. 257.) Addit Athanasius, n. 21, Dionysium, Quod Deum Christi factorem dixis…
Arnobius the Younger
Conflicts on the Trinity Book One
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 in the middle of it, according to Holy Scripture, is the Son of Man, whom he established for himself. Solomon speaks of him too, sa…
Thomas Aquinas
Catena Aurea - Gospel of Matthew
h “planted” a vine of which Isaiah speaks, “The vine of the Lord of Hosts is the house of Israel.” [ Isa 5:7 ] And “hedged it round about;” i.e. either the wall of the city, or the guardianship of Angels. Pseudo-Chrys.: Or, by the hedge understand the protection of the holy fathe…
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