Isaiah 5:17
Then shall the lambs feed as in their pasture, and the waste places of the fat ones shall wanderers eat.
Revised Version 1895
In The King James Version
In Context
16but the LORD of hosts is exalted in judgment, and God the Holy One is sanctified in righteousness.
18Woe unto them that draw iniquity with cords of vanity, and sin as it were with a cart rope:
Cross References
Deuteronomy 32:15But Jeshurun waxed fat, and kicked: Thou art waxen fat, thou art grown thick, thou art become sleek: Then he forsook God which made him, And lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation.
Psalms 17:10They are enclosed in their own fat: with their mouth they speak proudly.
Psalms 73:7Their eyes stand out with fatness: they have more than heart could wish.
Isaiah 1:7Your country is desolate; your cities are burned with fire; your land, strangers devour it in your presence, and it is desolate, as overthrown by strangers.
Isaiah 7:25And all the hills that were digged with the mattock; thou shalt not come thither for fear of briers and thorns, but it shall be for the sending forth of oxen, and for the treading of sheep.
Isaiah 17:2The cities of Aroer are forsaken: they shall be for flocks, which shall lie down, and none 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 →