John Trapp on Isaiah 5:7

Ver. 7. For the Vineyard, &c.] Exponit breviter mentem hujus Cantici. Here we have the Parable expounded and applied: the Scripture is its own beſt Interpreter, ſometimes (as here, and John 7.39.) the ſence is annexed. The Rabbins have a ſaying, Nulla eſt objectio in Lege quae non habet ſolutionem in latere.

His pleaſant plant] Delectabilis in patriarchis, infructifera in palmitibus. Heb. his plant of Delights, but now turned into the degenerate plant of a ſtrange Vine unto him, Jer. 2.21. Good Progenitors may have a bad off-ſpring: the reaſon whereof is given by Auſtin, Homo liberos gignit ex carne vetuſta & peccatrice, Con. Palag. Lib. 2. cap. 9. non ex spiritu, &c. Man begetteth children of the old and ſinful fleſh, and not of the Spirit.

And he looked for judgement, but behold oppreſſion] Or conſpiracy, or, as ſome render it a ſcab, a cleaving ſcab, ſuch as a man cannot eaſily be rid or recovered of. And here in the Original is excellent Rhetorick paſt Engliſhing: it is as if we ſhould ſay, a Preacher, a Prevaricator rather; a Diſpenſation, a Diſſipation; the ſound is almoſt the ſame, the ſence much different. There is a lawful uſe of Rhetorick in divine diſcourſes. Auſtin confeſſeth that whilſt he heard Ambroſe for his Eloquence only, together with his words which he loved, the matter which he at firſt cared not for, came into his mind: and whileſt, ſaith he, I opened my heart to liſten how trimly he ſpoke, I came to conſider alſo how truly he ſpoke; gradatim quidem.

For righteouſneſs, but behold a cry] The clamour of the oppreſſed entered into the ears of the Lord of Sabbaoth, who heareth their groans, and beholdeth their grievances, Job 34.28. Pſalm 12.5. Jam. 5.4.

Clamitat in caelum vox ſanguinis & Sodomorum, Vox oppreſſorum, merceſ que retenta laborum.

The twofold Ecce. Behold oppreſſion, Behold a cry, ſheweth it to be an evil action with an accent, a wickedneſs with a witneſs; Aliam Hebraeorum labruſiam notat.