Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
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.
Bible References
He looked
Matthew 3:8
Bring forth, therefore, fruit worthy of repentance:
Matthew 23:23
Alas for you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you pay tithes of mint and dill and cummin, and have neglected the weightier matters of the law, its justice, its mercy, and its faithfulness. These you ought to have done, and those you ought not to have neglected.
John 15:2
Every branch in me that bears no fruit, he takes away; and every branch that bears fruit, he prunes, that it may bear more fruit.
1 Corinthians 6:8
But you act unjustly, and you defraud, and that, too, your brethren.
1 John 3:7
Little children, let no one deceive you: he that works righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous.
A cry
Luke 18:7
and will not God avenge his elect, who cry to him day and night, though he delay long in respect to them?
James 5:4
Behold, the hire of the laborers who have reaped your fields, which has been unjustly withheld by you, cries out: and the cries of those who have reaped, have entered into the ears of the Lord of hosts.