--- title: "Commentary on Isaiah, Volume 2" author: "John Calvin" translator: "William Pringle" languages: [en] shelf: "Commentaries" section: 37 of 62 url: https://scriptura.si/works/john-calvin-commentary-on-isaiah-volume-2/37/ cite: "John Calvin, tr. William Pringle, Commentary on Isaiah, Volume 2, section 37. Scriptura (scriptura.si), https://scriptura.si/works/john-calvin-commentary-on-isaiah-volume-2/37/" --- # Commentary on Isaiah, Volume 2 *John Calvin, tr. William Pringle* Calvin on the prophet Isaiah, volume 2 of 4. ## 37. Chapter 5 Source: https://scriptura.si/works/john-calvin-commentary-on-isaiah-volume-2/37/ · cite a paragraph as https://scriptura.si/works/john-calvin-commentary-on-isaiah-volume-2/37/#p-N [¶0] 1 Come, I will sing for my beloved A song of my beloved to his vineyard. My beloved had a vineyard On a hill, the son of oil. [¶1] 2 He fenced it, and gathered out the stones, And planted it as a choice vine; He reared a tower in the midst of it, And built a wine-press in it: He therefore hoped that it would yield grapes, And it yieldeth wild grapes. [¶2] 3 Now then, O inhabitant of Jerusalem, And man of Judah, Judge ye between me and my vineyard. [¶3] 4 What more ought to have been done to my vineyard, Which I have not done to it? How did I look that it should yield grapes, And yet it hath yielded wild grapes? [¶4] 5 And now come, I will shew to you What I will do to my vineyard. I will take away its hedge, that it may become pasture; I will break down its wall, that it may be trodden down. [¶5] 6 I will lay it waste; It shall not be pruned nor digged; And the brier and thorn shall grow up. Yea, I will command the clouds That they do not rain on it. [¶6] 7 Verily the vineyard of Jehovah of hosts is the house of Israel, And the men of Judah his pleasant plant. Hence he looked for judgment, and behold oppression; For righteousness, and behold a cry. [¶7] 8 Wo to them that join house to house, And add field to field, Till there be no place; That you may be placed alone In the midst of the earth. [¶8] 9 This is in the ears of Jehovah of hosts, If many houses be not laid desolate, Great and fair, without inhabitant. [¶9] 10 Yea, ten acres of vineyard shall produce one bath, And the seed of a homer shall yield an ephah. [¶10] 11 Wo to them that rise early To follow drunkenness, And who prolong the time till night, While wine inflameth them. [¶11] 12 And the harp, the lyre, the tabret, and the pipe, and wine Are in their entertainments; But they do not regard the work of Jehovah, Nor consider the operation of his hands. [¶12] 13 Therefore my people are gone into captivity, Because they have no knowledge; And their glory are men famished, And their multitude are dried up with thirst. [¶13] 14 Therefore hell hath enlarged his soul, And opened his mouth without measure; And his glory and his multitude hath descended, And his wealth, and he that rejoiced in her. [¶14] 15 And the man of low degree shall be bowed down, And the man of rank shall be humbled; Yea, the eyes of the haughty shall be humbled. [¶15] 16 And Jehovah of hosts shall be exalted in judgment, And God, who is holy, shall be sanctified in righteousness. [¶16] 17 And the lambs shall feed after their manner, And the waste places of the fat ones shall strangers eat. [¶17] 18 Wo to them that draw iniquity with cords of vanity, And sin as with cart-ropes. [¶18] 19 Who say, Let him make speed, and hasten his work, That we may see it; Let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel draw near and come, That we may know it. [¶19] 20 Wo to them that call evil good, And good evil; That put darkness for light, And light for darkness; That turn bitter into sweet, And sweet into bitter. [¶20] 21 Wo to them that are wise in their own eyes, And are prudent in their own sight. [¶21] 22 Wo to them that are powerful to drink wine, And powerful men to mingle strong drink; [¶22] 23 Who justify the wicked for reward, And take away the righteousness of the righteous from him. [¶23] 24 Therefore, as the tongue of fire devoureth the stubble, And the chaff is consumed by the flame; So their root shall be as rottenness, And their blossom shall pass away as dust; Because they have cast away the law of Jehovah of hosts, And have loathed the word of the Holy One of Israel. [¶24] 25 Therefore the anger of Jehovah Hath been kindled against his people, And, stretching forth his hand against them, He hath smitten them; And the mountains trembled, And their torn carcass was thrown into the midst of the streets; And for all these things his anger hath not been turned away, But his hand is stretched out still. [¶25] 26 And he will lift up an ensign to the nations from afar; He will hiss to the nation from the end of the earth; And lo, it will come speedy and swift. [¶26] 27 None shall be weary nor stumble among them; None shall slumber nor sleep; None shall have the girdle of their loins loosed, Nor shall the latchet of their shoes be broken. [¶27] 28 Their arrows will be sharp, And all their bows bent. The hoofs of their horses shall be counted as flint, And their wheels as a whirlwind. [¶28] 29 Their roaring shall be like that of a lion; They shall roar like young lions; They shall gnash and seize the prey; They shall carry away the spoils, And none shall deliver. [¶29] 30 He shall roar against them in that day, as the roaring of the sea; Then shall he look to the earth, And behold! the darkness of tribulation; And the light shall be darkened in the heavens.