Isaiah 5:13

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Summary

Therefore my people are gone into captivity, because they have no knowledge: and their honourable men are famished, and their multitude dried up with thirst.

Because

Honourable men are famished

Jeremiah 14:18

Lamentations 4:4

Multitude

Jeremiah 14:3

Amos 8:13

Bible References

Because

The ox knows its owner, and the donkey its master's crib, but Israel does not know, my people do not understand."

When its boughs are dry, they are broken; women come and make a fire of them. For this is a people without discernment; therefore he who made them will not have compassion on them; he who formed them will show them no favor.

Even the stork in the heavens knows her times, and the turtledove, swallow, and crane keep the time of their coming, but my people know not the rules of the LORD.

My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge; because you have rejected knowledge, I reject you from being a priest to me. And since you have forgotten the law of your God, I also will forget your children.

and tear you down to the ground, you and your children within you. And they will not leave one stone upon another in you, because you did not know the time of your visitation."

And this is the judgment: the light has come into the world, and people loved the darkness rather than the light because their works were evil.

And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them up to a debased mind to do what ought not to be done.

For they deliberately overlook this fact, that the heavens existed long ago, and the earth was formed out of water and through water by the word of God,

Honourable men are famished

If I go out into the field, behold, those pierced by the sword! And if I enter the city, behold, the diseases of famine! For both prophet and priest ply their trade through the land and have no knowledge.'"

The tongue of the nursing infant sticks to the roof of its mouth for thirst; the children beg for food, but no one gives to them.

Multitude

Her nobles send their servants for water; they come to the cisterns; they find no water; they return with their vessels empty; they are ashamed and confounded and cover their heads.

"In that day the lovely virgins and the young men shall faint for thirst.