Isaiah 5:7
For the vineyard of the Lord of hosts is the house of Israel. And the man of Judah is his delightful seedling. And I expected that he would do judgment, and behold iniquity, and that he would do justice, and behold an outcry.
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Exodus 2:23In truth, after a long time, the king of Egypt was dead. And the sons of Israel, groaning, cried out because of the works. And their cry ascended to God from the works.
Exodus 22:21You shall not harass the newcomer, nor shall you afflict him. For you yourselves were once newcomers in the land of Egypt.
Nehemiah 5:1And there occurred a great outcry of the people and their wives against their brothers, the Jews.
Job 34:28so that they caused the outcry of the needy to reach him, and he heard the voice of the poor.
Psalms 80:15I would have humbled their enemies, as if it were nothing, and I would have sent my hand upon those who troubled them.
Psalms 149:4For the Lord is well pleased with his people, and he will exalt the meek unto salvation.
Matthew Henry on Isaiah 5:2-8
Israel Compared to a Vineyard. ( b. c. 758.) 1 Now will I sing to my wellbeloved a song of my beloved touching his vineyard. My wellbeloved hath a vineyard in a very fruitful hill: 2 And he fenced it, and gathered out the stones thereof, and planted it with the choicest vine, and built a tower in the midst of it, and also made a winepress therein: and he looked that it should bring forth grapes, and it brought forth wild grapes. 3 And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem, and men of Judah, judge, I pray you, betwixt me… Read the whole commentary →