Isaiah 5:17

Then the sheep will feed as in their own pasture, and in the ruins, lambs will graze as foreigners. + 5:17 Some modern versions have and in the ruins of the rich, lambs will graze . 1

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In The King James Version

Then shall the lambs feed after their manner, and the waste places of the fat ones shall strangers eat.

In Context

16Yahweh of hosts will be exalted in his justice, and God the Holy One will show himself holy by his righteousness. 1

18Woe to those who pull along iniquity with useless cords and who pull along sin as if it were with a cart rope. 1

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 32:15But Jeshurun grew fat and kicked— 1 you grew fat, you were too fat, and you had eaten your fill— 1 he abandoned the God who made him, 1 and he rejected the Rock of his salvation. 1

Psalms 17:10They have no mercy on anyone; their mouths speak with pride. 1

Psalms 73:7Out of such blindness comes sin; 1 evil thoughts pass through their hearts. 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 7:25They will stay away from all the hills that were cultivated with the hoe, for fear of the briers and thorns; 1 but it will be a place where cattle and sheep graze.

Isaiah 17:2The cities of Aroer will be abandoned. 1 They will be places for flocks to lie down, and no one will frighten 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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