17) Isaiah’s Song of the Lord’s Vineyard Understood

Isaiah saw the symbols of the house of Israel in the metaphor of the “vineyard in a very fruitful hill.” In his song of the vineyard (Isaiah 5), he explains how the lord’s vineyard produced wild fruit, to which the Lord says “I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard.” The Lord of the vineyard starves the vineyard of weeding and withholds rain. Compare these parallels to the last days in the parable of the redemption of Zion.