And the daughter of Zion is left like a booth in a vineyard, like a lodge in a cucumber field, like a besieged city.
8. And the daughter of Zion shall be left Residua manebit. as a cottage in a vineyard He alludes to a custom which exists in France, that the vinekeepers rear a cottage for themselves when the grapes begin to ripen.
The inanimate creatures, the lights of heaven, the fruitfulness of the earth, shame this stupid, senseless people into silence; they obey their Creator while Israel rebels. This is ingratitude of the highest kind: God nourished and exalted them as His children, and they turned against Him.
AI summary
Commenting on Isaiah 1:2-9
And the daughter of Zion is left as a cottage in the vineyard,.... The Targum is, "after they have got in the vintage.'' A cottage in the vineyard was a booth, as the word (e) signifies, which was erected in the middle of the vineyard for the keeper of the vineyard to watch in night and day, that the fruit might not be hurt by...