Micah 4:8: And thou, O tower of the flock, the stronghold of the daughter of Zion, unto thee shall it come, even the first dominion; the kingdom shall come to the daughter of Jerusalem.

 

 Ps.48:12-14: 12: Walk about Zion, and go round about her: Tell the towers thereof.

 

Matt.21:   2: Saying unto them, “Go into the village over against you, and straightaway you will find an ass tied, and a colt with her: loose them, and bring them unto Me.” 43: Therefore I say unto you,  The kingdom of God shall be taken from,  and given to a nation bringing forth the fruits thereof. 

 

 Mark 12: 1: A certain man planted a vineyard, and set an hedge about it...

This ‘winepress’ also symbolizes God’s wrath in judgment;

 

Lamentations 1:15: The Lord hath trodden underfoot all my mighty men in the midst of me: he hath called an assembly against me to crush my young men: the Lord hath trodden

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Rev.14:9: And the third angel followed them, saying with a loud voice, If any man worship the beast and his image, and receive his mark in his forehead, or in his hand

Rev 19:15: And out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword, that with it he should smite the nations: and he shall rule them with a rod of iron: and he treadeth the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God.

 It can also represent the good 'fruits' of labour, pressing out the good juice of the grape to make wine. For the expression ‘wild grapes’,

 Deut. 32:32: For their vine is of the vine of Sodom, and of the fields of Gomorrah: their grapes of gall, their clusters are bitter:

For a description of the ‘grapes of gall’ and ‘bitter clusters’, for they are compared to Sodom and Gomorrah.

Deut. 29:18:  Lest there should be among you man, or woman, or family, or tribe, whose heart turneth away this day from the Lord our God, to go and serve the gods of these nations; lest there should be among you a root that beareth gall and wormwood.

If you’ll remember back in Chapter 1 of Isaiah, God was comparing His rebellious children to Sodom and Gomorrah.
     Did you notice how digging deeper into this second verse of Chapter 5 took you to the idea of ‘wild grapes’, and researching other passages about these ‘wild grapes’ led to Deut.32, which brought up the subject of Sodom and Gomorrah again? This is how to study God’s Word. If you don’t understand a particularly difficult verse, rest assured you will find the same subject in more than one place in our Father’s Word, giving us a method for using The Word, to verify The Word in our minds. That’s why it’s complete, and it’s called The Living Word. (We’re in the Old Testament; the part that many teach we don’t live in anymore!). Anyway, I hope you get the idea about the ‘key words’. God teaches using picture symbols, and these symbols are always natural, in other words, they are things that we can see and everyone can relate to. These symbols ‘weave’ through His Word forming a complete ‘blanket’, a righteous covering for those who seek Him, and do their best to follow Him, instead of mammon.

Isa 5:3   And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem, and men of Judah, judge, I pray you, betwixt Me and My vineyard.

     I spent a bit of extra time on the last verse to illustrate some of the depth of God’s Word. Let me caution you: if you wander too far in depth, you can miss the flow of the chapter. Not everyone can go to that depth, and others can go even deeper in their research. The point I'm trying to make is to stay focused on the subject and object in the present chapter you’re studying. This is why I recommend The Companion Bible. It is a King James Version with extensive marginal notes that help research a verse in other parts of The Bible. Most of the time, when a key point such as the phrase ‘fruitful hill’, meaning ‘son of oil’ in the Hebrew, might be missed in a standard King James,