Isaiah 5:13

Therefore my people go into captivity for lack of knowledge. 2 Their honorable men are famished, 2 and their multitudes are parched with thirst. 1

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In The King James Version

Therefore my people are gone into captivity, because they have no knowledge: and their honourable men are famished, and their multitude dried up with thirst.

In Context

12The harp, lyre, tambourine, and flute, with wine, are at their feasts; 2 but they don’t respect the work of Adonai, 2 neither have they considered the operation of his hands. 1

14Therefore Sheol ·Place of the dead· has enlarged its desire, 2 and opened its mouth without chok ·portion·; 2 and their glory, their multitude, their pomp, and he who rejoices among them, descend into it. 1

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Cross References

Proverbs 10:21The lips of the upright feed many, 2 but the foolish die for lack of understanding. 1

Isaiah 1:7Your country is desolate. 2 Your cities are burned with fire. 2 Strangers devour your land in your presence, 2 and it is desolate, 2 as overthrown by strangers. 1

Isaiah 42:22But this is a robbed and plundered people. 2 All of them are snared in holes, 2 and they are hidden in prisons. 1 They have become captives, and no one delivers; 2 and a plunder, and no one says, ‘Restore them!’ 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 →

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