Isaiah 5:17
And lambs have fed according to their leading, || And sojourners consume wastelands of the fat ones.
Literal Standard Version
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In Context
16And YHWH of Hosts is high in judgment, || And the Holy God sanctified in righteousness,
Cross References
Deuteronomy 32:15And Yeshurun waxes fat, and kicks: You have been fat, you have been thick, || You have been covered. And he leaves God who made him, || And dishonors the Rock of his salvation.
Psalms 17:10They have closed up their fat, || Their mouths have spoken with pride:
Psalms 73:7Their eye has come out from fat. The imaginations of the heart transgressed;
Isaiah 1:7Your land [is] a desolation, your cities burned with fire, || Your ground—strangers are consuming it before you, || And a desolation as overthrown by strangers!
Isaiah 7:25And all the hills that are kept in order with a mattock, || There does not come [for] fear of brier and thorn, || And it has been for the sending forth of ox, || And for the treading of sheep!
Isaiah 17:2The cities of Aroer are forsaken, || They are for droves, and they have lain down, || And there is none troubling.
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 →