Isaiah 5:17
And fed have lambs according to their leading, And waste places of the fat ones Do sojourners consume.
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
16And Jehovah of Hosts is high in judgment, And the Holy God sanctified in righteousness,
Cross References
Deuteronomy 32:15And Jeshurun waxeth fat, and doth kick: Thou hast been fat — thou hast been thick, Thou hast been covered. And he leaveth God who made him, And dishonoureth the Rock of his salvation.
Psalms 17:10Their fat they have closed up, Their mouths have spoken with pride:
Psalms 73:7Their eye hath come out from fat. The imaginations of the heart transgressed;
Isaiah 1:7Your land [is] a desolation, your cities burnt with fire, Your ground, before you strangers are consuming it, And a desolation as overthrown by strangers!
Isaiah 7:25And all the hills that with a mattock are kept in order, Thither cometh not the fear of brier and thorn, And it hath been for the sending forth of ox, And for the treading of sheep!'
Isaiah 17:2Forsaken are the cities of Aroer, For droves they are, and they have lain down, And there is none troubling.
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 →