Isaiah 5:18
Woe to those who pull along iniquity with useless cords and who pull along sin as if it were with a cart rope. 1
Unlocked Literal Bible
In The King James Version
Woe unto them that draw iniquity with cords of vanity, and sin as it were with a cart rope:
In Context
Cross References
Judges 17:5The man Micah had a house of idols and he made an ephod and household gods, and he hired one of his sons to become his priest.
2 Samuel 16:20Then Absalom said to Ahithophel, “Give us your advice about what we should do.”
Psalms 14:1A fool says in his heart, “There is no God.” 1 They are corrupt and have done abominable iniquity; 1 there is no one who does good. 1
Psalms 94:5They crush your people, Yahweh; 1 they afflict the nation that belongs to you. 1
Isaiah 28:15This will happen because you said, “We have made a covenant with death, 1 and with Sheol we have reached an agreement. So when the overwhelming whip passes through, it will not reach us. 1 For we have made a lie our refuge, and taken shelter in falsehood.” 1
Jeremiah 5:31The prophets prophesy with deceit, and the priests rule with their own power. 1 My people love it this way, but what will happen in the end?'”
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 →