Isaiah 5:7

For the vineyard of the LORD of Armies is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasant plant. He looked for justice, but behold, oppression, for righteousness, but behold, a cry of distress.

World English Bible

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 a wasteland. It won’t be pruned or hoed, but it will grow briers and thorns. I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain on it.”

8Woe to those who join house to house, who lay field to field, until there is no room, and you are made to dwell alone in the middle of the land!

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Cross References

Exodus 2:23In the course of those many days, the king of Egypt died, and the children of Israel sighed because of the bondage, and they cried, and their cry came up to God because of the bondage.

Exodus 22:21“You shall not wrong an alien or oppress him, for you were aliens in the land of Egypt.

Nehemiah 5:1Then there arose a great cry of the people and of their wives against their brothers the Jews.

Job 34:28so that they caused the cry of the poor to come to him. He heard the cry of the afflicted.

Psalms 80:15the stock which your right hand planted, the branch that you made strong for yourself.

Psalms 149:4For the LORD takes pleasure in his people. He crowns the humble with salvation.

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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