Parallel Verses
Modern King James verseion
Now I will sing to my Beloved a song of my Beloved concerning His vineyard. My Beloved has a vineyard in a very fruitful hill.
New American Standard Bible
A song of my beloved concerning His vineyard.
My well-beloved had a
King James Version
Now will I sing to my wellbeloved a song of my beloved touching his vineyard. My wellbeloved hath a vineyard in a very fruitful hill:
Holman Bible
a song about my loved one’s vineyard:
The one I love had a vineyard
on a very fertile hill.
International Standard Version
I will sing for my beloved my love-song concerning his vineyard: "The one I love had a vineyard on a very fertile hill.
A Conservative Version
Let me sing for my well-beloved a song of my beloved concerning his vineyard. My well-beloved had a vineyard in a very fruitful hill.
American Standard Version
Let me sing for my wellbeloved a song of my beloved touching his vineyard. My wellbeloved had a vineyard in a very fruitful hill:
Amplified
A song of my Beloved about His vineyard (His chosen people).
My greatly Beloved had a vineyard on a very fertile slope (the promised land, Canaan).
Bible in Basic English
Let me make a song about my loved one, a song of love for his vine-garden. My loved one had a vine-garden on a fertile hill:
Darby Translation
I will sing to my well-beloved a song of my beloved touching his vineyard: My well-beloved had a vineyard upon a fruitful hill.
Julia Smith Translation
I will sing now to my beloved a song of my love for his vineyard. There was a vineyard to my beloved in the horn of the son of oil:
King James 2000
Now will I sing to my well-beloved a song of my beloved regarding his vineyard. My well-beloved has a vineyard on a very fruitful hill:
Lexham Expanded Bible
Let me sing for my beloved a song of my love concerning his vineyard: {My beloved had a vineyard} on {a fertile hill}.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Now will I sing my beloved friend a song of his vineyard. My beloved friend hath a vineyard in a very fruitful plenteous ground.
NET Bible
I will sing to my love -- a song to my lover about his vineyard. My love had a vineyard on a fertile hill.
New Heart English Bible
Let me sing for my well beloved a song of my beloved about his vineyard. My beloved had a vineyard on a very fruitful hill.
The Emphasized Bible
Let me sing, I pray you, for a well-beloved of mine, The song of my beloved concerning his vineyard: - A vineyard, had my well-beloved on a very fruitful hill;
Webster
Now will I sing to my well-beloved a song of my beloved concerning his vineyard. My well-beloved hath a vineyard in a very fruitful hill:
World English Bible
Let me sing for my well beloved a song of my beloved about his vineyard. My beloved had a vineyard on a very fruitful hill.
Youngs Literal Translation
Let me sing, I pray you, for my beloved, A song of my beloved as to his vineyard: My beloved hath a vineyard in a fruitful hill,
Themes
Ingratitude to God » Illustrated
Parables » Of the old testament » Of the prophets
Prophets » Frequently spake in parables and riddles
Prophets » Sometimes uttered their predictions in verse
Punishment » According to deeds » See the parable of the vineyard
Truth » Illustrated in parables of the old testament » Of the prophets
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Isaiah 5:1
Verse Info
Context Readings
The Song Of The Vineyard
1 Now I will sing to my Beloved a song of my Beloved concerning His vineyard. My Beloved has a vineyard in a very fruitful hill. 2 And He fenced it, and gathered out the stones of it, and planted it with choice vines, and built a tower in its midst, and hewed out a wine vat in it; and He looked for it to produce grapes. And it produced wild grapes.
Names
Cross References
Psalm 80:8
You have brought a vine out of Egypt; You have cast out the nations and planted it.
Matthew 21:33
Hear another parable. There was a certain housemaster who planted a vineyard and hedged it round about, and dug a winepress in it, and built a tower, and rented it to vinedressers, and went into a far country.
Mark 12:1
And He began to speak to them by parables. A man planted a vineyard, and set a fence about it, and dug a wine-vat, and built a tower, and he let it out to vinedressers, and went away.
Luke 20:9
And He began to speak to the people this parable: A certain man planted a vineyard and let it out to vinedressers. And he went into a far country for a long time.
Deuteronomy 31:19-22
Now, therefore, write this song for you, and teach it to the sons of Israel. Put it in their mouths, so that this song may be a witness for Me against the sons of Israel.
Judges 5:1-31
Then Deborah and Barak the son of Abinoam sang on that day, saying,
Psalm 45:1
To the Chief Musician. Concerning the Lilies, for the sons of Korah, a contemplation; A Song of Loves. My heart is overflowing with a good matter; I speak of my works to the King; my tongue is the pen of a ready writer.
Psalm 101:1
A Psalm of David. I will sing of mercy and judgment; to You, O Jehovah, I will sing praise.
Song of Songs 2:16
My Beloved is mine, and I am His; He feeds among the lilies.
Song of Songs 5:2
I sleep, but my heart is awake. It is the sound of my Beloved that knocks, saying, Open to Me, My sister, My love, My dove, My undefiled; for My head is filled with dew, My locks with the drops of the night.
Song of Songs 5:16
His mouth is most sweet; yes, He is altogether lovely. This is my Beloved, and this is my Friend, O daughters of Jerusalem.
Song of Songs 6:3
I am my Beloved's, and my Beloved is mine; He feeds among the lilies.
Song of Songs 8:11-12
Solomon had a vineyard in Baal-hamon; he let out the vineyard to keepers; everyone for its fruit was to bring a thousand of silver.
Isaiah 27:2-3
In that day sing to her, a delightful vineyard.
Jeremiah 2:21
Yet I planted you a noble vine, wholly a true seed. How then have you turned into the degenerate shoots of an alien vine to Me?
John 15:1
I am the True Vine, and My Father is the Vinedresser.