Isaiah 5:17
And the lambs shall feed as on their pasture, and the waste places of the fat ones shall strangers eat.
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
16and Jehovah of hosts shall be exalted in judgment, and the holy God hallowed in righteousness.
18Woe unto them that draw iniquity with cords of vanity, and sin as with cart-ropes!
Cross References
Deuteronomy 32:15Then Jeshurun grew fat, and kicked Thou art waxen fat, Thou art grown thick, And thou art covered with fatness; He gave up God who made him, And lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation.
Psalms 17:10They are enclosed in their own fat; with their mouth they speak proudly.
Psalms 73:7Their eyes stand out from fatness, they exceed the imaginations of their heart:
Isaiah 1:7Your country is desolate; your cities are burned with fire; your land, strangers eat it up in your presence, and it is desolate, as overthrown by strangers.
Isaiah 7:25And all mountains that have been dug up with the hoe thither will they not come, from fear of briars and thorns; and they shall be for the sending forth of oxen, and for the treading of small cattle.
Isaiah 17:2The cities of Aroer are forsaken: they shall be for flocks; and they shall lie down and there shall be none to make them afraid.
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 →