Matthew Poole and continuators on Isaiah 5:1

NOw will I sing to my welbeloved , a song of my beloved touching his vineyard : My welbeloved hath a vineyard in a very fruitful hill .

I will record it to be a Witness for God, and against you, as Moses did his Song, Deut. 31. 19. & 32. 1.

To the Lord of the Vineyard, as appears by the last Clause of the Verse, to God or Christ, whom I love and serve, and for whose Glory, eclipsed by you, I am greatly concerned.

Not devised by me, not the Effect of my Envy or Passion; but inspired by God, which therefore it behoveth you to lay to heart.

His Church, oft and very fitly called a vineyard, because of God's singular Respect to it, and Care of it, and his Delight in it, and expectation of good Fruit from it, &c.

Hills being Places most commodious for Vines; See Psal. 80. 10. Heb. in an horn (which may signisie either, 1. the Figure or Shape of the Land of Canaan, which resembles an Horn; or, 2. the Heighth and Hilliness of that Land, as Horns are the highest parts of Beasts; or, 3. the Goodliness and Excellency of it, as an horn, when it is ascribed to a man, signifies his Glory and Dignity, as Iob 16. 15. Psal. 89. 17, 24, &c.) the son of oil, which, by a vulgar Hebraism, notes an oily or a fat Soil.

Marginal references: Psal. 80. 8. Oant. 8. 12. Jer. 2. 21. Mat. 21. 33. Mar. 12. 1. Luk. 20. 9.; Heb. the horn of the son of oyl.