And I will make it desolate: it shall not be pruned, and it shall not be digged: but briers and thorns shall come up: and I will command the clouds to rain no rain upon it.
Ibn Ezra
בתה Waste. Comp. בתות The desolate places (7:19). יזמר It shall be pruned. זמורה branch is of the same root; זמר means to dress the vineyard by cutting off the branches. יעדר It shall be digged. עדר to dig, to prepare the vineyard by digging (comp. 7:25). שמיר ושית Two kinds of thorns. The application of this figure is The wicked will increase. The clouds. The prophets are hereby meant; comp. Her prophets also find no vision from the Lord (Lam. 2:9).
Hebrew and Aramaic words are the commentator’s citations of the sacred text; the English translation that follows each is the translator’s.
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