Isaiah 5:7

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.

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

Thou broughtest a vine out of Egypt; thou didst cast out the nations, and plant it:

Many shepherds have destroyed my vineyard, they have trodden my portion under foot, they have made my pleasant portion a desolate wilderness:

His pleasant plant

For as a young man marrieth a virgin, shall thy sons marry thee; and with the joy of the bridegroom over the bride, shall thy God rejoice over thee.

Jehovah taketh pleasure in those that fear him, in those that hope in his loving-kindness.

For Jehovah taketh pleasure in his people; he beautifieth the meek with salvation.

How fair and how pleasant art thou, my love, in delights!

Jehovah thy God is in thy midst, a mighty one that will save: he will rejoice over thee with joy; he will rest in his love; he will exult over thee with singing.

He looked

And he dug it, and gathered out the stones thereof, and planted it with the choicest vine; and he built a tower in the midst of it, and also hewed out a winepress therein; and he looked that it should bring forth grapes, but it brought forth wild grapes.

Is not this the fast which I have chosen: to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the thongs of the yoke, and to send forth free the crushed, and that ye break every yoke?

Ye shall not afflict any widow or fatherless child.

He hath shewn thee, O man, what is good: and what doth Jehovah require of thee, but to do justly, and to love goodness, and to walk humbly with thy God?

Thus speaketh Jehovah of hosts, saying, Execute true judgment, and shew loving-kindness and mercies one to another,

Produce therefore fruit worthy of repentance.

Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, for ye pay tithes of mint and anise and cummin, and ye have left aside the weightier matters of the law, judgment and mercy and faith: these ye ought to have done and not have left those aside.

As to every branch in me not bearing fruit, he takes it away; and as to every one bearing fruit, he purges it that it may bring forth more fruit.

But ye do wrong, and defraud, and this your brethren.

Children, let no man lead you astray; he that practises righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous.

Oppression

From the sole of the foot even unto the head there is no soundness in him; wounds, and weals, and open sores: they have not been dressed, nor bound up, nor mollified with oil.

therefore the Lord will make bald the crown of the head of the daughters of Zion, and Jehovah will lay bare their secret parts.

A cry

And he said, What hast thou done? the voice of thy brother's blood is crying to me from the ground.

And it came to pass during those many days, that the king of Egypt died. And the children of Israel sighed because of the bondage, and cried; and their cry came up to God because of the bondage;

And Jehovah said, I have seen assuredly the affliction of my people who are in Egypt, and their cry have I heard on account of their taskmasters; for I know their sorrows.

Thou shalt neither vex a stranger, nor oppress him; for ye have been strangers in the land of Egypt.

Beware that there be not a wicked thought in thy heart, saying, The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand; and thine eye be evil against thy poor brother, and thou givest him nought; and he cry against thee to Jehovah, and it be sin in thee.

And there was a great cry of the people and of their wives against their brethren the Jews.

If my land cry out against me, and its furrows weep together;

So that they cause the cry of the poor to come unto him, and he heareth the cry of the afflicted.

Whoso stoppeth his ears at the cry of the poor, he also himself shall cry, and shall not be heard.

And shall not God at all avenge his elect, who cry to him day and night, and he bears long as to them?

Behold, the wages of your labourers, who have harvested your fields, wrongfully kept back by you, cry, and the cries of those that have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth.

General references

And if ye sell ought unto your neighbour, or buy of your neighbour's hand, ye shall not overreach one another.