Isaiah 5:4-6 What could have been done more to my vineyard, that I have not done in it? why, when I looked that it should bring forth grapes… I. THE FORM AND MANNER OF THE COMPLAINT. It runs in a pathetic, interrogatory exclamation; which way of expression naturally and amongst men importing in it surprise and a kind of confusion in the thoughts of him who utters it, must needs be grounded upon that which is the foundation of all surprise, which I conceive is reducible to these two heads — 1. The strangeness; 2. The indignity of anything, when it first occurs to our apprehensions. II. THE COMPLAINT ITSELF; for which there are these things to be considered. 1. The Person complaining, who was God Himself. 2. The persons complained of, which were His peculiar Church and people. 3. The ground of this complaint; which was their unworthy and unsuitable returns made to the dealings of God with them. 4. The issue and consequent of it; which was the confusion and destruction of the persons so graciously dealt with and so justly complained of. (R. South, D. D.) Parallel Verses KJV: What could have been done more to my vineyard, that I have not done in it? wherefore, when I looked that it should bring forth grapes, brought it forth wild grapes? |
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