Isaiah 5:18
Woe [to] those drawing out iniquity with cords of vanity, || And as [with] thick ropes of the cart—sin.
Literal Standard Version
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
17And lambs have fed according to their leading, || And sojourners consume wastelands of the fat ones.
Cross References
Judges 17:5As for the man Micah, he has a house of gods, and he makes an ephod, and teraphim, and consecrates the hand of one of his sons, and he is for a priest to him;
2 Samuel 16:20And Absalom says to Ahithophel, “Give counsel for yourself [for] what we do.”
Psalms 14:1TO THE OVERSEER. BY DAVID. A fool has said in his heart, “There is no God”; They have done corruptly, || They have done abominable actions, || There is not a doer of good.
Psalms 94:5Your people, O YHWH, they bruise, || And they afflict Your inheritance.
Isaiah 28:15Because you have said: “We have made a covenant with death, || And we have made a provision with Sheol, || An overflowing scourge, when it passes over, || Does not meet us, || Though we have made a lie our refuge, || And have been hidden in falsehood.”
Jeremiah 5:31The prophets have prophesied falsely, || And the priests bear rule by their means, || And My people have loved [it] so, || And what do they do at its latter end?”
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 →