Isaiah 5:17
Then the lambs will graze as in their pasture, and strangers will eat the ruins of the rich.
World English Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
16but the LORD of Armies is exalted in justice, and God the Holy One is sanctified in righteousness.
18Woe to those who draw iniquity with cords of falsehood, and wickedness as with cart rope,
Cross References
Deuteronomy 32:15But Jeshurun grew fat, and kicked. You have grown fat. You have grown thick. You have become sleek. Then he abandoned God who made him, and rejected the Rock of his salvation.
Psalms 17:10They close up their callous hearts. With their mouth they speak proudly.
Psalms 73:7Their eyes bulge with fat. Their minds pass the limits of conceit.
Isaiah 1:7Your country is desolate. Your cities are burned with fire. Strangers devour your land in your presence and it is desolate, as overthrown by strangers.
Isaiah 7:25All the hills that were cultivated with the hoe, you shall not come there for fear of briers and thorns; but it shall be for the sending out of oxen, and for sheep to tread on.”
Isaiah 17:2The cities of Aroer are forsaken. They will be for flocks, which shall lie down, and no one shall make them afraid.
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 →