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
Produce, therefore, fruit worthy of repentance;
Matthew 23:23
"Woe to you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin; and have omitted the weightier things of the law??he judgment, and the mercy, and the faith; but these it was proper to have done, and those not to have omitted.
John 15:2
Every branch in Me that bears not fruit, He taketh it away: and every one that bears fruit, He cleanseth it, that it may bear more fruit.
1 Corinthians 6:8
But ye yourselves do wrong, and defraud, and that your brethren!
1 John 3:7
Little children, let no one deceive you: he that does righteousness is righteous, even as He is righteous.
A cry
Luke 18:7
And will not God avenge His elect, who are crying to Him day and night, and He is long suffering over them?
James 5:4
Behold, the hire of the workmen who mowed down your fields, which is fraudulently kept back by you, is crying out; and the cries of those who reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth.