Isaiah 5:7

For the Kerem Hashem Tzva'os 1 is Bais Yisroel, 1 and the Ish Yehudah 1 are the planting of His delight; 1 and He looked for mishpat (justice), 1 but, hinei, mishpach (bloodshed, rapaciousness); 1 for tzedakah, but, hinei, tze'akah (cry of distress). 1

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

For the vineyard of the LORD of hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasant plant: and he looked for judgment, but behold oppression; for righteousness, but behold a cry.

In Context

6And I will lay it waste; 1 it shall not be pruned, 1 nor cultivated; 1 but there shall come up briers and thorns; 1 I will also command the clouds that they rain no matar (rain) upon it. 1

8Hoy unto them that add bais to bais, 1 that join sadeh to sadeh, till there be no makom (place, home), 1 that ye alone are dwelling in the midst of ha'aretz! 1

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Cross References

Exodus 2:23And it came to pass in process of time, that Melech Mitzrayim died; and the Bnei Yisroel groaned by reason of haAvodah (the Bondage), and they cried out, and their cry came up unto HaElohim by reason of haAvodah.

Exodus 22:21Ye shall not cause pain to any almanah, or yatom.

Nehemiah 5:1And there was a great outcry of HaAm and of their nashim against their achim the Yehudim.

Job 34:28So that they caused the cry of the poor to come unto Him, 1 and He heareth the cry of the aniyim. 1

Psalms 80:15Shuv nah (return now), we beseech Thee, O Elohim Tzva'os; 1 look down from Shomayim, and behold, and visit gefen zot (this vine); 1

Psalms 149:4For Hashem taketh pleasure in His people; 1 He will crown the meek with Yeshu'ah (salvation). 1

Matthew Henry on Isaiah 5:2-8

Israel Compared to a Vineyard. ( b. c. 758.) 1 Now will I sing to my wellbeloved a song of my beloved touching his vineyard. My wellbeloved hath a vineyard in a very fruitful hill: 2 And he fenced it, and gathered out the stones thereof, and planted it with the choicest vine, and built a tower in the midst of it, and also made a winepress therein: and he looked that it should bring forth grapes, and it brought forth wild grapes. 3 And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem, and men of Judah, judge, I pray you, betwixt me… Read the whole commentary →

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