Isaiah 5:3

Easy-to-Read Version

My friend said, "You people living in Jerusalem and you people of Judah, think about me and my vineyard.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
So now, residents of Jerusalemand men of Judah,please judge between meand my vineyard.

Hebrew Names Version
Now, inhabitants of Yerushalayim and men of Yehudah, Please judge between me and my vineyard.

King James Version
And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem, and men of Judah, judge, I pray you, betwixt me and my vineyard.

English Standard Version
And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem and men of Judah, judge between me and my vineyard.

New American Standard Bible
"And now, you inhabitants of Jerusalem and people of Judah, Judge between Me and My vineyard.

New Century Version
My friend says, "You people living in Jerusalem, and you people of Judah, judge between me and my vineyard.

Amplified Bible
"And now, says the LORD, O inhabitants of Jerusalem and men of Judah, Judge between Me and My vineyard (My people).

World English Bible
Now, inhabitants of Jerusalem and men of Judah, Please judge between me and my vineyard.

Geneva Bible (1587)
Now therefore, O inhabitants of Ierusalem and men of Iudah, iudge, I pray you, betweene me, and my vineyarde.

Legacy Standard Bible
"So now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem and men of Judah,Please judge between Me and My vineyard.

Berean Standard Bible
And now, O dwellers of Jerusalem and men of Judah, I exhort you to judge between Me and My vineyard.

Contemporary English Version
Listen, people of Jerusalem and of Judah! You be the judge of me and my vineyard.

Complete Jewish Bible
Now, citizens of Yerushalayim and people of Y'hudah, judge between me and my vineyard.

Darby Translation
And now, inhabitants of Jerusalem and men of Judah, judge, I pray you, between me and my vineyard.

George Lamsa Translation
And now, O men of Judah, and inhabitants of Jerusalem, judge between me and my vineyard.

Good News Translation
So now my friend says, "You people who live in Jerusalem and Judah, judge between my vineyard and me.

Lexham English Bible
And now, inhabitants of Jerusalem and men of Judah, judge between me and my vineyard.

Literal Translation
And now, O people of Jerusalem and men of Judah, I ask you, judge between Me and My vineyard.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
I shewe you now my cause (o ye Citysens of Ierusalem and whole Iuda:) Iudge I praye you betwixte me: and my wynegardinge.

American Standard Version
And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem and men of Judah, judge, I pray you, betwixt me and my vineyard.

Bible in Basic English
And now, you people of Jerusalem and you men of Judah, be the judges between me and my vine-garden.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem and men of Judah, judge, I pray you, betwixt me and my vineyard.

King James Version (1611)
And now, O inhabitants of Ierusalem, and men of Iudah, Iudge, I pray you, betwixt me and my Uineyard.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Nowe O citezen of Hierusalem, and man of Iuda, iudge I pray thee betwixt me and my vineyarde:

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And now, ye dwellers in Jerusalem, and every man of Juda, judge between me and my vineyard.

English Revised Version
And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem and men of Judah, judge, I pray you, betwixt me and my vineyard.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Now therfor, ye dwelleris of Jerusalem, and ye men of Juda, deme bitwixe me and my viner.

Update Bible Version
And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem and men of Judah, judge, I pray you, between me and my vineyard.

Webster's Bible Translation
And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem, and men of Judah, judge, I pray you, betwixt me and my vineyard.

New English Translation
So now, residents of Jerusalem, people of Judah, you decide between me and my vineyard!

New King James Version
"And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem and men of Judah, Judge, please, between Me and My vineyard.

New Living Translation
Now, you people of Jerusalem and Judah, you judge between me and my vineyard.

New Life Bible
"And now, O people living in Jerusalem and men of Judah, judge between Me and My grape-field.

New Revised Standard
And now, inhabitants of Jerusalem and people of Judah, judge between me and my vineyard.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Now, therefore, O inhabitant of Jerusalem, And men of Judah, - Judge, I pray you, betwixt me, and my vineyard: -

Douay-Rheims Bible
And now, O ye inhabitants of Jerusalem, and ye men of Juda, judge between me and my vineyard.

Revised Standard Version
And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem and men of Judah, judge, I pray you, between me and my vineyard.

Young's Literal Translation
And now, O inhabitant of Jerusalem, and man of Judah, Judge, I pray you, between me and my vineyard.

THE MESSAGE
"Now listen to what I'm telling you, you who live in Jerusalem and Judah. What do you think is going on between me and my vineyard? Can you think of anything I could have done to my vineyard that I didn't do? When I expected good grapes, why did I get bitter grapes?

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem and men of Judah, Judge between Me and My vineyard.

Contextual Overview

¹ Now I will sing a song for my friend, my love song about his vineyard. My friend had a vineyard on a very fertile hill. ² He dug and cleared the field and planted the best grapevines there. He built a tower in the middle and cut a winepress into the stone. He expected good grapes to grow there, but there were only rotten ones. ³ My friend said, "You people living in Jerusalem and you people of Judah, think about me and my vineyard. ⁴ What more could I do for my vineyard? I did everything I could. I hoped for good grapes to grow, but there were only rotten ones. Why did that happen? ⁵ "Now I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard: I will pull up the thornbushes that protect it, and I will burn them. I will break down the stone wall and use the stones for a walkway. ⁶ I will turn my vineyard into useless land. No one will care for the plants or work in the field. Weeds and thorns will grow there. I will command the clouds not to rain on it." ⁷ The vineyard that belongs to the Lord All-Powerful is the house of Israel. The grapevine, the plant he loves, is the man of Judah. The Lord hoped for justice, but there was only killing. He hoped for fairness, but there were only cries from people being treated badly.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

judge: Psalms 50:4-6, Psalms 51:4, Jeremiah 2:4, Jeremiah 2:5, Micah 6:2, Micah 6:3, Matthew 21:40, Matthew 21:41, Mark 12:9-12, Luke 20:15, Luke 20:16, Romans 2:5, Romans 3:4

Reciprocal: Genesis 44:16 - What shall we say 1 Samuel 12:7 - reason 2 Kings 10:9 - Ye be righteous Psalms 46:3 - the waters Isaiah 27:8 - thou wilt Jeremiah 6:18 - hear Ezekiel 20:4 - judge them Hosea 4:1 - for Hosea 6:4 - what Amos 2:11 - Is it Matthew 7:17 - every

Cross-References

Genesis 4:25
Adam again had sexual relations with his wife, and she gave birth to another son. She named him Seth. Eve said, "God has given me another son. Cain killed Abel, but now I have Seth."

Genesis 5:2
He created them male and female. And on the same day he made them, he blessed them and called them "humans."

Genesis 5:3
After Adam was 130 years old, he had another son. This son looked just like Adam. Adam named his son Seth.

Genesis 5:14
So Kenan lived a total of 910 years; then he died.

Genesis 5:16
After Jared was born, Mahalalel lived 830 years and had other sons and daughters.

Job 14:4
"No one can make something clean from something so dirty.

Job 25:4
How can anyone claim to be right before God? No human being can really be pure.

Psalms 51:5
I was born to do wrong, a sinner before I left my mother's womb.

Luke 1:35
The angel said to Mary, "The Holy Spirit will come to you, and the power of the Most High God will cover you. The baby will be holy and will be called the Son of God.

John 3:6
The only life people get from their human parents is physical. But the new life that the Spirit gives a person is spiritual.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem, and men of Judah,.... All and everyone of them, who were parties concerned in this matter, and are designed by the vineyard, for whom so much had been done, and so little fruit brought forth by them, or rather so much bad fruit:

judge, I pray you, between me and my vineyard; between God and themselves; they are made judges in their own cause; the case was so clear and evident, that God is as it were willing the affair should be decided by their own judgment and verdict: so the Targum,

"judge now judgment between me and my people.''

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

And now ... - This is an appeal which God makes to the Jews themselves, in regard to the justice and propriety of what he was about to do. A similar appeal he makes in Micah 6:3 : ‘O my people, what have I done unto thee? and wherein have I wearied thee? Testify against me.’ He intended to “punish” them Isaiah 5:5-6, and he appeals to them for the justice of it. He would do to them as they would do to a vineyard that had been carefully prepared and guarded, and which yet was valueless. A similar appeal he makes in Isaiah 1:18; and our Saviour made an application remarkably similar in his parable of the vineyard, Matthew 21:40-43. It is not improbable that he had his eye on this very place in Isaiah; and it is, therefore, the more remarkable that the Jews did not understand the bearing of his discourse.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Isaiah 5:3. Inhabitants — ישבי yoshebey, in the plural number; three MSS., (two ancient,) and so likewise the Septuagint and Vulgate.