Isaiah 5:18
Woe to them that draw sins to them as with a long rope, and iniquities as with a thong of the heifer’s yoke:
Updated Brenton Septuagint
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 house of Micah was to him the house of God, and he made an ephod and teraphim, and he consecrated one of his sons, and he became to him a priest.
2 Samuel 16:20And Absalom said to Ahithophel, Deliberate among yourselves concerning what we should do.
Psalms 14:1A Psalm of David. 1 O Lord, who shall sojourn in thy tabernacle? 1 And who shall dwell in thy holy mountain? 1
Psalms 94:5For the sea is his, and he made it: 1 And his hands formed the dry land. 1
Isaiah 28:15Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with Hades, and agreements with death; if the rushing storm should pass, it shall not come upon us: we have made falsehood our hope, and by falsehood shall we be protected:
Jeremiah 5:31the prophets utter unrighteous prophecies, and the priests have clapped their hands: and my people has loved to have it thus: and what will ye do for the future?
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 →