John Trapp on Isaiah 27:3

Ver. 3. I the Lord do keep it] And then it cannot but be well kept. The matter is well amended with Gods Vineyard ſince chap. 5.5. The Lord is with you whiles ye are with him, 2 Chron. 15.2. The hand of our God is upon all them for good that ſeek him: but his power and his wrath is againſt all them that forſake him. Ezra 8.12. Do good O Lord, unto thoſe that be good, &c. As for ſuch as turn aſide unto their crooked ways, &c. Pſal. 125.4, 5.

I will water it every moment] God will be to his Vineyard both a Wall and a Well; a Sun and a Shield; as Pſal. 84.11. all that heart can wiſh, or need require. Of all poſſeſſions, ſaith Cato, none requireth more care and pains, then that of Vineyards. Corn comes up, and grows alone, Mar. 3. but vines muſt be daily dreſſed, fenced, ſupported, In Philip. watered. Plantas tenellas frequentius adaquare proderit, ſaith Primaſius. Yong Vines muſt be often watered: Gods Vines ſhall not want for watering, though once he forbad the clouds to rain upon them, chap. 5.6. He hath not been wanting to England either for watching or for watering it. We may now much better ſay of it, then once Polydor Virgil did, Regnum Angliae Regnum Dei: he meant becauſe none ſeemed to take care of England, but God. He grant we may at length walk worthy of ſuch a mercy: Amen. The Vulgar here rendreth it, but not ſo well Repente propinabo ei, I will ſhortly drink to her.

Leſt any hurt it] Heb. Leſt he viſit on it: left any profane perſon ſhould rudely and unmannerly ruſh upon it, he gardeth it conſtantly.