Isaiah 5:7
Israel is the vineyard of the Lord Almighty, and the people of Judah are the plants in his garden that made him happy. Yet while he hoped for justice, he only saw injustice; he hoped people would live right, but he only heard the cries of those who were suffering.
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Exodus 2:23Years later, the king of Egypt died. But the Israelites were still groaning under their hard labor. Their cries for help because of their hardship reached God.
Exodus 22:21You must not exploit or mistreat a foreigner. Remember that you yourselves were once foreigners in Egypt.
Nehemiah 5:1Around this time some people and their wives started a tremendous argument with the other Jews.
Job 34:28They made the poor call out to him, and he heard the cries of the oppressed.
Psalms 80:15that you planted yourself, this son that you brought up yourself.
Psalms 149:4For the Lord enjoys his people; he honors the oppressed with 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 →