Isaiah 5:17
And the lambs shall feed according to their order, and strangers shall eat the deserts turned into fruitfulness.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
16And the Lord of hosts shall be exalted in judgment, and the holy God shall be sanctified in justice.
18Woe to you that draw iniquity with cords of vanity, and sin as the rope of a cart.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 32:15The beloved grew fat, and kicked: he grew fat, and thick and gross, he forsook God who made him, and departed from God his saviour.
Psalms 17:10they have shut up their fat: their mouth hath spoken proudly.
Psalms 73:7Their iniquity hath come forth, as it were from fatness: they have passed into the affection of the heart.
Isaiah 1:7Your land is desolate, your cities are burnt with fire: your country strangers devour before your face, and it shall be desolate as when wasted by enemies.
Isaiah 7:25And as for all the hills that shall be raked with a rake, the fear of thorns and briers shall not come thither, but they shall be for the ox to feed on, and the lesser cattle to tread upon.
Isaiah 17:2The cities of Aroer shall be left for flocks, and they shall rest there, 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 →