Isaiah 5:17
Then shall the lambs feed, as in their own pasture, And the deserted fields of the rich shall strangers consume.
Noyes Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
18Woe to them that draw calamity with cords of wickedness, And punishment as with wagon-traces,—
Cross References
Psalms 17:10They shut up their hard heart; With their mouth they speak haughtily.
Psalms 73:7From their bosom issueth their iniquity; The designs of their hearts burst forth.
Isaiah 1:7Your country is desolate; Your cities are burnt with fire; Your ground, strangers devour it before your eyes; It is become desolate, destroyed by an enemy.
Isaiah 7:25All the hills that were digged with the mattock Shall no one approach through fear of briers and thorns; They shall be for the pasturage of oxen, And the trampling of sheep.
Isaiah 17:2The cities of Aroer shall be forsaken; They shall be pastures 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 →