Isaiah 5:7

For the vineyard of Yahweh of hosts is the house of Israel, 1 and the man of Judah his pleasant planting; 1 he waited for justice, but instead, there was killing; for righteousness, but, instead, a shout for help. 1

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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

6I will lay it waste, and it will not be pruned nor hoed. Instead, briers and thorns will spring up. 1 I will also command the clouds not to rain on it. 1

8Woe to those who join house to house, who join field to field, 1 until no room remains, and you alone remain in the land! 1

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Cross References

Exodus 2:23A long time later, the king of Egypt died. The Israelites groaned because of the slave labor. They cried out for help, and their pleas went up to God because of their bondage.

Exodus 22:21You must not wrong a foreigner or oppress him, for you were foreigners in the land of Egypt.

Nehemiah 5:1Then the men and their wives raised a great outcry against their fellow Jews.

Job 34:28In this way, they made the cry of poor people come to him; 1 he heard the cry of afflicted people. 1

Psalms 80:15This is the root that your right hand planted, 1 the shoot that you made to grow. 1

Psalms 149:4For Yahweh takes pleasure in his people; 1 he glorifies the humble with 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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