Isaiah 5:13

Therefore my people have gone into captivity for lack of understanding; 1 their honored leaders go hungry, and their common people have nothing to drink. 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

12They banquet with harp, lute, tambourine, flute, and wine, 1 but they do not recognize the work of Yahweh, nor have they considered the doings of his hands. 1

14Therefore Sheol has made its appetite greater and has opened its mouth very wide; 1 their elite, the people, their leaders, and the revelers and those who are happy among them, descend into Sheol. 1

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Cross References

2 Kings 17:6In the ninth year of Hoshea, the king of Assyria took Samaria and carried Israel away to Assyria. He put them in Halah, at the Habor River of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes.

Proverbs 10:21The lips of the righteous person nourish many, 1 but fools die because of their lack of sense. 1

Isaiah 1:7Your country is ruined; your cities are burned; 1 your fields—in your presence, strangers are destroying them— 1 abandoned devastation, overthrown by strangers. 1

Isaiah 42:22But this is a people robbed and plundered; 1 they are all trapped in pits, held captive in prisons; 1 they have become a plunder with no one to rescue them, and no one says, “Bring them back!” 1

Jeremiah 14:3Their mighty ones send out their servants for water. 1 When they go to the trenches, they cannot find water. They all return unsuccessful; 1 they cover their heads ashamed and dishonored. 1

Lamentations 4:4The tongue of the nursing baby sticks to the roof of his mouth by thirst; 1 the children ask for food, but there is none for 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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