Isaiah 5:18
Woe unto them that draw iniquity with cords of vanity, and sin as it were with a cart rope,
JPS TaNaKH 1917
In The King James Version
Woe unto them that draw iniquity with cords of vanity, and sin as it were with a cart rope:
In Context
Cross References
Judges 17:5And the man Micah had a house of God, and he made an ephod, and teraphim, and consecrated one of his sons, who became his priest.
2 Samuel 16:20Then said Absalom to Ahithophel: 'Give your counsel what we shall do.'
Psalms 14:1For the Leader. A Psalm of David. The fool hath said in his heart: 'There is no God'; they have dealt corruptly, they have done abominably; there is none that doeth good.
Psalms 94:5They crush Thy people, O LORD, and afflict Thy heritage.
Isaiah 28:15Because ye have said: 'We have made a covenant with death, and with the nether-world are we at agreement; when the scouring scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us; for we have made lies our refuge, and in falsehood have we hid ourselves';
Jeremiah 5:31The prophets prophesy in the service of falsehood, and the priests bear rule at their beck; and My people love to have it so; What then will ye do in the end thereof?
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 →