In that day sing to her, “A vineyard of red wine!
Parallel translations
- WEB In that day, sing to her, “A pleasant vineyard!
- KJV In that day sing ye unto her, A vineyard of red wine.
- BSB In that day: “Sing about a fruitful vineyard.
- NASB ¶On that day, “A vineyard of beauty, sing of it!
- NLT “In that day, sing about the fruitful vineyard.
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Quick answer
God's people are now pictured as a delightful vineyard worth singing about.
Overview
In contrast to the failed vineyard of Isaiah 5, here God's people are a 'pleasant vineyard' celebrated in song. The shift signals restoration and renewed favor toward His covenant people. It foreshadows the true vine, Christ, in whom God's people become fruitful and beloved.
Cross-references & the web
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- Jer 2:21Yet I had planted you a noble vine, a pure and faithful seed. How then have you turned into the degenerate branches of a foreign vine to me?
- Ps 80:8–19You brought a vine out of Egypt. You drove out the nations, and planted it.
- Num 21:17Then Israel sang this song: “Spring up, well! Sing to it,
- Luke 20:9–18He began to tell the people this parable. “A man planted a vineyard, and rented it out to some farmers, and went into another country for a long time.
- Isa 5:1–7Let me sing for my well beloved a song of my beloved about his vineyard. My beloved had a vineyard on a very fruitful hill.
- Matt 21:33–46“Hear another parable. There was a man who was a master of a household, who planted a vineyard, set a hedge about it, dug a wine press in it, built a tower, leased it out to farmers, and went into another country.
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Isaiah sees him most clearly: the virgin's son Immanuel, the child on David's throne, the shoot from Jesse, the light to the nations, and above all the Suffering Servant pierced for our transgressions (ch. 53).
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