Isaiah 5:6
I will lay it a wasteland.It won't be pruned nor hoed,but it will grow briers and thorns.I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain on it."
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Deuteronomy 28:23Your sky that is over your head shall be brass, and the earth that is under you shall be iron.
1 Kings 17:1Elijah the Tishbite, who was of the foreigners of Gilead, said to Ahab, "As the Lord, the God of Israel, lives, before whom I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years, but according to my word."
Proverbs 24:31Behold, it was all grown over with thorns.Its surface was covered with nettles,and its stone wall was broken down.
Isaiah 6:11Then I said, "Lord, how long?"He answered,"Until cities are waste without inhabitant,and houses without man,and the land becomes utterly waste,
Isaiah 24:1Behold, the Lord makes the earth empty, makes it waste, turns it upside down, and scatters its inhabitants.
Isaiah 30:23He will give the rain for your seed, with which you will sow the ground; and bread of the increase of the ground will be rich and plentiful. In that day, your livestock will feed in large pastures.
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 →