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 hast brought a vine out of Egypt; thou hast cast out the heathen, and planted it.

Divers herdsmen have broken down my vineyard, and trodden upon my portion. Of my pleasant portion, they have made a wilderness and desert.

His pleasant plant

And like as a young man taketh a daughter to marriage, so shall God marry himself unto thy sons. And as a bridegroom is glad of his bride, so shall God rejoice over thee.

But the LORD's delight is in them that fear him, and put their trust in his mercy.

For the LORD hath pleasure in his people, and helpeth the meek hearted.

O how fair and lovely art thou, my darling, in pleasures?

for the LORD thy God is with thee. It is he that hath power to save: he hath a special pleasure in thee, and a marvelous love toward thee: yea he rejoiceth over thee with gladness."

He looked

This he hedged, this he walled round about, and planted it with goodly grapes. In the midst of it builded he a tower, and made a wine press therein. And afterward when he looked that it should bring him grapes, it brought forth thorns.

Or is not this rather the fast that I have chosen? To loose wicked bonds, and to unbind bundles of oppression? And to let the bruised go free? And that ye should break all manner yokes?

Ye shall trouble no widow nor fatherless child:

I will show thee, O man, what is good, and what the LORD requireth of thee: Namely, to do right, to have pleasure in loving-kindness, to be lowly, and to walk with thy God.

"Thus sayeth the LORD of Hosts, 'Execute true judgment, and show mercy and loving-kindness, every man to his brother.

Bring forth therefore the fruits belonging to repentance:

Woe be to you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, for ye which tithe mint, anise, and cumin, and leave the weightier matters of the law undone: judgment, mercy, and faith: these ought ye to have done, and not to have left the other undone.

Every branch that beareth not fruit in me, he will take away. And every branch that beareth fruit will he purge, that it may bring more fruit.

Nay, ye yourselves do wrong, and rob: and that the brethren.

Little children, let no man beguile you; He that worketh righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous.

Oppression

From the sole of the foot unto the head, there is no whole part in all your body: but all are wounds, botches, sores and stripes, which can neither be helped, bound up, mollified, nor eased with any ointment.

Therefore shall the Lord shave the heads of the daughters of Zion, and discover their shame."

A cry

And he said, "What hast thou done? The voice of thy brother's blood cryeth unto me out of the earth.

And it chanced, in process of time, that the king of Egypt died; and the children of Israel sighed by the reason of labour, and cried.

Then the LORD said, "I have surely seen the trouble of my people which are in Egypt, and have heard their cry, which they have of their taskmasters. For I know their sorrow,

Vex not a stranger, neither oppress him, for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.

And beware that there be not a point of Belial in thine heart, that thou wouldest say, 'The seventh year, the year of freedom is at hand,' and therefore it grieve thee to look on thy poor brother and givest him nought and he then cry unto the LORD against thee and it be sin unto thee.

And there arose a great complaint of the people, and of their wives, against their brethren the Jews.

But if cause be that my land cry against me, or that the furrows thereof make any complaint;

Insomuch that they have caused the voice of the poor to come unto him, and now he heareth the complaint of such as are in necessity.

Whoso stoppeth his ear at the crying of the poor; he shall cry himself and not be heard.

And shall not God avenge his elect, which cry night and day unto him? Yea though he defer them:

Behold, the hire of the laborers which have reaped down your fields - which hire is of you kept back by fraud - crieth: and the cries of them which have reaped, are entered into the ears of the Lord of Hosts.

General references

"'When thou sellest ought unto thy neighbour or buyest of thy neighbour's hand, ye shall not oppress one another: