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
His pleasant plant
He looked
Oppression
A cry
General references
Bible References
The vineyard
Psalm 80:8
You brought a vine from Egypt. You forced out the nations and planted it.
Jeremiah 12:10
Many foreign rulers have destroyed my vineyard. They trampled down my fields and turned my beautiful land into a desert.
His pleasant plant
Isaiah 62:5
Your sons will marry you like a young man marries a woman. Your God will rejoice over the same way a bridegroom rejoices over his bride.
Psalm 147:11
Jehovah is pleased with those who fear him, with those who wait with hope for his mercy.
Psalm 149:4
Jehovah takes pleasure in his people. He crowns (beautifies) those who are oppressed with salvation.
Song of Songs 7:6
How fair and how pleasant you are, O love, for delights!
Zephaniah 3:17
Jehovah your God is with you! He is a mighty one. He will exult over you with joy. He will refresh you with his love. He will rejoice over you with shouts of joy.
He looked
Isaiah 5:2
He dug the soil all around and removed its stones. He 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 only produced worthless ones.
Isaiah 58:6
Is this not the fast 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?
Exodus 22:22
Do not mistreat any widow or orphan.
Micah 6:8
He told you, O lowly man, what is good and what Jehovah requires of you. You should display justice, love kindness, and walk humbly with your God!
Zechariah 7:9
Jehovah of Hosts has spoken: Every man should execute true judgment, and show kindness and compassion to his brother!
Matthew 3:8
Bear fruit worthy of repentance!
Matthew 23:23
Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! You tithe mint and dill and cumin, and have left undone the weightier matters of the law: justice, mercy and faith. You should do both and leave nothing undone.
John 15:2
He takes away the branches in me that do not bear fruit. He cleans every branch that bears fruit. That way it may bear more fruit.
1 Corinthians 6:8
Instead you do wrong and defraud, and you do this to your brothers and sisters!
1 John 3:7
My little children let no man deceive you! He who practices righteousness is righteous, even as he [Christ] is righteous.
Oppression
Isaiah 1:6
From the bottom of your feet to the top of your head there is no healthy spot left on your body. You have only bruises, sores, and fresh wounds. They have not been cleansed, bandaged, or soothed with oil.
Isaiah 3:17
Jehovah will cause sores to appear on the heads of the women of Zion. Jehovah will make their foreheads bare.
A cry
Genesis 4:10
Jehovah said: What have you done? Listen! Your brother's blood (life) cries out to me from the ground.
Exodus 2:23
Time went by and the king of Egypt died. The Israelites still groaned because they were slaves. So they cried out, and their cries for help went up to God.
Exodus 3:7
Jehovah said: I have seen how my people are suffering as slaves in Egypt. I have heard them beg for my help because of the way they are being mistreated. I feel sorry for them.
Exodus 22:21
Do not mistreat or oppress a foreigner. Remember that you were foreigners in Egypt.
Deuteronomy 15:9
When the seventh year, the year when payments on debts are canceled, is near, you might be stingy toward poor Israelites and give them nothing. Be careful not to think these worthless thoughts. The poor will complain to Jehovah about you, and you will be condemned for your sin.
Nehemiah 5:1
Then there was a great outcry from the people and their wives against their countrymen the Jews.
Job 31:38
If my land has cried out against me, and its furrows have wept together.
Job 34:28
They forced the poor to cry out to him, and he hears the cry of those who suffer.
Proverbs 21:13
Whoever shuts his ears to the cry of the poor, he also will cry, but will not be heard.
Luke 18:7
Should God avenge his chosen that cry to him day and night, and yet he is longsuffering over them?
James 5:4
Behold, the wages of the laborers who harvested your fields, which are held back by you, cry out: and the cries of them that reaped have entered into the ears of Jehovah of Hosts.
General references
Leviticus 25:14
In the business of trading goods for money, do no wrong to one another.