Isaiah 5:17
Then shall the kevasim feed as upon their pasture, 1 and the gerim (sojourners) will eat in the ruins of the rich. 1
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Deuteronomy 32:15But Yeshurun grew fat, and kicked; 1 thou art grown fat, thou art grown thick, thou art covered with fatness; 1 then he forsook G-d which made him, 1 and lightly esteemed the Tzur of his Yeshu'ah (Salvation). 1
Psalms 17:10They have closed up callously and mercilessly against me; 1 with their mouth they speak with ge'ut (pride). 1
Psalms 73:7Their eyes bulge with chelev; 1 they have more than levav could imagine. 1
Isaiah 1:7Your country is desolate, 1 your cities are burned with eish; 1 your land, zarim devour it in your presence, 1 and it is desolate, as overthrown by zarim. 1
Isaiah 7:25And on all hills that were hoed with a hoe, thou shall not come there for fear of briers and thorns; but it shall be for pasturing of cattle, and for the treading place of seh.
Isaiah 17:2The cities of Aro'er are deserted; 1 they shall be for adarim (flocks), 1 which shall lie down, 1 and none shall make them afraid. 1
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 →