Isaiah 5:17
Then shall the lambs feed as in their pasture, and the waste places of the fat ones shall wanderers eat.
JPS TaNaKH 1917
In The King James Version
In Context
18Woe unto them that draw iniquity with cords of vanity, and sin as it were with a cart rope,
Cross References
Deuteronomy 32:15But Jeshurun waxed fat, and kicked — thou didst wax fat, thou didst grow thick, thou didst become gross — and he forsook God who made him, and contemned the Rock of his salvation.
Psalms 17:10Their gross heart they have shut tight, with their mouth they speak proudly.
Psalms 73:7Their eyes stand forth from fatness; they are gone beyond the imaginations of their heart.
Isaiah 1:7Your country is desolate; your cities are burned with fire; your land, strangers devour it in your presence, and it is desolate, as overthrown by floods.
Isaiah 7:25And all the hills that were digged with the mattock, thou shalt not come thither for fear of briers and thorns, but it shall be for the sending forth of oxen, and for the treading of sheep.
Isaiah 17:2The cities of Aroer are forsaken; they shall be for flocks, which shall lie down, and none shall 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 →