Isaiah 5:3
3 And now, O inhabitants [yashab] of Jerusalem, [Yaruwshalaim]
and men ['iysh] of Judah, [Yahuwdah] judge, [shaphat] I pray
you, betwixt me and my vineyard. [kerem] KJV-Interlinear
3
"And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem and men of Judah, Judge between Me
and My vineyard. NASB
And now, God asks of
those, even you, who would listen.
What would you do? If you had constructed a vineyard, planted a
vineyard, cultivated and pruned a vineyard, cared for it and did all that could
possibly be done to and for it, and then it simply does not respond, does not
produce, becomes totally worthless and a waste of time.
What would you do if you
poured out your life into a project and it ends up totally worthless?
Well, most folks will
throw it away, destroy it, set it aside, move on to something else.
And so the question is
asked in order to explain the justice and reasonableness and fairness of Gods
decision.
In but a couple of
verses, God states emphatically that He is going to destroy Jerusalem and Judah. And more correctly He is going to judge and
punish those who are the worthless within and without His family.
For it is these, members
of humanity, that God has planted on this earth. Some will reject God
outright. Some will accept God but will
remain indifferent toward His Word. Some
will accept God and then pursue His word partly. And some will pursue His word to the maximum.
For those who remain
loyal to wickedness (all patterns of life that are not consistent with Gods
plan), then there will be a judgment, due to their failure to thrive and
produce.
Only truth can produce
good. Good is the only legitimate
production of life.
All evil cannot produce
good, and therefore is worthless, destructive, and doomed to failure.
What would you do? God is fair.
And anyone who has an objective or even a subjective eye, knows that
even they would cast aside something that is worthless, putrid, rotten.
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