Isaiah 5:17
And the lambs will pasture in proper order, and new arrivals will eat from the deserts turned into fertile lands.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
In Context
16And the Lord of hosts will be exalted in judgment, and the holy God will be sanctified in justice.
18Woe to you who draw iniquity with cords of vanity, and who draw sin as if with the rope of a cart,
Cross References
Deuteronomy 32:15The beloved grew fat, and he kicked. Having grown fat and thick and wide, he abandoned God, his Maker, and he withdrew from God, his Savior.
Psalms 17:10He bent the heavens, and they descended. And darkness was under his feet.
Psalms 73:7They have set fire to your Sanctuary. They have polluted the tabernacle of your name on earth.
Isaiah 1:7Your land is desolate. Your cities have been set ablaze. Foreigners devour your countryside in your sight, and it will become desolate, as if devastated by enemies.
Isaiah 7:25But as for all the mountains, which will be dug with a hoe, the terror of thorns and briers will not approach those places. And there will be pasture land for oxen, and a range for cattle.”
Isaiah 17:2The cities in ruin will be left for the flocks, and they will take rest there, and there will be no one who may terrify them.
Matthew Henry on Isaiah 5:9-18
Worldly-Mindedness Reproved; The Punishment of the Sensual. ( b. c. 758.) 8 Woe unto them that join house to house, that lay field to field, till there be no place, that they may be placed alone in the midst of the earth! 9 In mine ears said the Lord of hosts, Of a truth many houses shall be desolate, even great and fair, without inhabitant. 10 Yea, ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and the seed of a homer shall yield an ephah. 11 Woe unto them that rise up early in the morning, that they may follow… Read the whole commentary →