Isaiah 5:17
Lambs will graze as in their own pastures, and strangers will feed in the ruins of the wealthy.
Berean Standard Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
18Woe to those who draw iniquity with cords of deceit and pull sin along with cart ropes,
Cross References
Deuteronomy 32:15But Jeshurun grew fat and kicked— becoming fat, bloated, and gorged. He abandoned the God who made him and scorned the Rock of his salvation.
Psalms 17:10They have closed their callous hearts; their mouths speak with arrogance.
Psalms 73:7From their prosperity proceeds iniquity; the imaginations of their hearts run wild.
Isaiah 1:7Your land is desolate; your cities are burned with fire. Foreigners devour your fields before you— a desolation demolished by strangers.
Isaiah 7:25For fear of the briers and thorns, you will no longer traverse the hills once tilled by the hoe; they will become places for oxen to graze and sheep to trample.
Isaiah 17:2The cities of Aroer are forsaken; they will be left to the flocks, which will lie down with no one to fear.
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 →