Comment 1 – I make a point of telling my family that I love them! But, in human terms I use ‘Beloved’ as a noun for my wife only. I do use it as an adjective for surely we are beloved of God and (hopefully) by our parents and vice-versa by our children! In v1 it is used as a noun as the Father and the Son were talking to each other! Which of the two members of the Trinity are singing the song? Or is it Isaiah?
1 Let me sing for my beloved my love song concerning his vineyard: My beloved had a vineyard on a very fertile hill.
2 He dug it and cleared it of stones, and planted it with choice vines; he built a watchtower in the midst of it, and hewed out a wine vat in it; and he looked for it to yield grapes, but it yielded wild grapes. Comment 2 – what more could have been done to make for a productive wine press? Except maybe an industrial test on the quality of the soil! But surely to the degree possible that had been done!
3 And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem and men of Judah, judge between me and my vineyard.
4 What more was there to do for my vineyard, that I have not done in it? When I looked for it to yield grapes, why did it yield wild grapes? Comment 3 – Reread Comment 2!
5 And now I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard. I will remove its hedge,
and it shall be devoured; I will break down its wall, and it shall be trampled down.
6 I will make it a waste; it shall not be pruned or hoed, and briers and thorns shall grow up; I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it. Comment 4 – presumably the judgement of the owner is that the problem is with the soil! It has had the rock cleared, choice vines chosen and the soil was plain unproductive! So it was to be left to its original state!
7 For the vineyard of the LORD of hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah are his pleasant planting; and he looked for justice, but behold, bloodshed;
for righteousness, but behold, an outcry!
Final Comment: Obviously this is a parable where God has planned great things for Israel. His Preparation of, and for the Jews, is listed. But His desire (for justice) has obviously not been produced! Justice involves judgement sometimes but the short dictionary definition of the noun ‘justice’ is “the quality of being just; righteous, equitable, or moral rightness, to uphold the justice of a cause.” Judgement is coming because justice has not been produced.
Proverbs 21: – 3 To do righteousness and justice is more acceptable to the LORD than sacrifice.
Prayer: I know what You want, LORD. Help me to think, love and live Your desire, Please.
As I read it! 