Isaiah 5 talks about judgment on God’s people. Israel are God’s people, but the Christians are part of Israel. Romans 11 talks about believers being grafted into Israel.

There are lots of warnings. There is a section of woes, specific warnings.

People are warned for calling good evil and evil good. We certainly see that in our day and age. There is also a warning for those who are wise in their own eyes. Seeing my own children think they know so much as they become young adults makes me even more aware of how I was like that at their age! Thankfully, the Lord has since shown me I know nothing at all apart from the grace of God! May all God’s children know their need of Him in EVERYTHING!

The chapter starts off with a section about the Lord’s vineyard. If the Lord has a vineyard and we’re in His vine, then we are in that vineyard.

It talks about how God cared for His vineyard. He asks, “What more could I have done?”

He did all He could to care for it and to make it fruitful, but it didn’t yield good fruit.

Jesus tells us, as recorded in John 15, that an unfruitful branch gets taken away. It will be cut off and burned. John the Baptist says the same of what produces bad fruit.

The Lord was looking for righteousness from His vine.

Verse 16 of Isaiah 5 says that the Holy God shows himself holy in righteousness. Holy we could define as set apart. God shows Himself set apart by His righteousness, by always doing what is right. We are to be holy to the Lord. We are to be set apart by our righteousness, by the righteousness of Christ in us, which makes us a slave to doing the right thing through us.