Isaiah 5:7

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Isaiah 5:7

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Summary

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.

The vineyard

Psalm 80:8

Jeremiah 12:10

His pleasant plant

Zephaniah 3:17

He looked

Oppression

Isaiah 1:6

Isaiah 3:17

A cry

General references

Leviticus 25:14

Bible References

The vineyard

You removed a vine from Egypt;
You drove out the nations and planted it.

“Many shepherds have ruined My vineyard,
They have trampled down My field;
They have made My pleasant field
A desolate wilderness.

His pleasant plant

For as a young man marries a virgin,
So your sons will marry you;
And as the bridegroom rejoices over the bride,
So your God will rejoice over you.

The Lord

favors those who fear Him,

Those who wait for His lovingkindness.

For the Lord

takes pleasure in His people;

He will beautify the afflicted ones with salvation.

“How beautiful and how delightful you are,

My love, with all your charms!

“The Lord your God is in your midst,
A

victorious warrior.

He will exult over you with joy,
He will be quiet in His love,
He will rejoice over you with shouts of joy.

He looked

He dug it all around, removed its stones,
And planted it with the choicest vine.
And He built a tower in the middle of it
And also hewed out a wine vat in it;
Then He expected it to produce good grapes,
But it produced only worthless ones.

“Is this not the fast which I choose,
To loosen the bonds of wickedness,
To undo the bands of the yoke,
And to let the oppressed go free
And break every yoke?

You shall not afflict any widow or orphan.

He has told you, O man, what is good;
And what does the Lord require of you
But to do justice, to love kindness,
And to walk

humbly with your God?

“Thus has the Lord of hosts said, ‘Dispense true justice and practice kindness and compassion each to his brother;

Therefore bear fruit in keeping with repentance;

“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you tithe mint and dill and cummin, and have neglected the weightier provisions of the law: justice and mercy and faithfulness; but these are the things you should have done without neglecting the others.

Every branch in Me that does not bear fruit, He takes away; and every branch that bears fruit, He prunes it so that it may bear more fruit.

On the contrary, you yourselves wrong and defraud. You do this even to your brethren.

Little children, make sure no one deceives you; the one who practices righteousness is righteous, just as He is righteous;

Oppression

From the sole of the foot even to the head

There is nothing sound in it,
Only bruises, welts and raw wounds,

Not pressed out or bandaged,

Nor softened with oil.

Therefore the Lord will afflict the scalp of the daughters of Zion with scabs,
And the Lord will make their foreheads bare.”

A cry

He said, “What have you done? The voice of your brother’s blood is crying to Me from the ground.

Now it came about in the course of those many days that the king of Egypt died. And the sons of Israel sighed because of the bondage, and they cried out; and their cry for help because of their bondage rose up to God.

The Lord said, “I have surely seen the affliction of My people who are in Egypt, and have given heed to their cry because of their taskmasters, for I am aware of their sufferings.

“You shall not wrong a stranger or oppress him, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt.

Beware that there is no base thought in your heart, saying, ‘The seventh year, the year of remission, is near,’ and your eye is hostile toward your poor brother, and you give him nothing; then he may cry to the Lord against you, and it will be a sin in you.

Now there was a great outcry of the people and of their wives against their Jewish brothers.

“If my land cries out against me,
And its furrows weep together;

So that they caused the cry of the poor to come to Him,
And that He might hear the cry of the afflicted—

He who shuts his ear to the cry of the poor
Will also cry himself and not be answered.

now, will not God bring about justice for His elect who cry to Him day and night, and will He delay long over them?

Behold, the pay of the laborers who mowed your fields, and which has been withheld by you, cries out against you; and the outcry of those who did the harvesting has reached the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth.

General references

If you make a sale, moreover, to your friend or buy from your friend’s hand, you shall not wrong one another.