Isaiah 5:17 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

¹⁷ Then shall the lambs feed as in their pasture, and the waste places of the fat ones shall wanderers eat.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁷ Then shall the lambs feed after their manner, and the waste places of the fat ones shall strangers eat.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁷ Then shall the lambs feed [among the ruins] as in their own pasture, and [among] the desolate places of the [exiled] rich shall sojourners and aliens eat.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁷ Then shall the lambs feed as in their pasture, and the waste places of the fat ones shall wanderers eat.

Common English Bible

¹⁷ Lambs will graze as if in their pasture; young goats will feed among the ruins of the rich.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁷ And the lambs will pasture in proper order, and new arrivals will eat from the deserts turned into fertile lands.

Isaiah 5:17 Cross References

Zephaniah 2:6

And the sea coast shall be pastures, with cottages for shepherds and folds for flocks.

Isaiah 7:25

And all the hills that were digged with the mattock; thou shalt not come thither for fear of briers and thorns, but it shall be for the sending forth of oxen, and for the treading of sheep.

Zephaniah 2:14

And herds shall lie down in the midst of her, all the beasts of the nations: both the pelican and the porcupine shall lodge in the chapiters thereof: their voice shall sing in the windows; desolation shall be in the thresholds; for he hath laid bare the cedar work.

Luke 21:24

And they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and shall be led captive into all the nations: and Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled.

Micah 2:12

I will surely assemble, O Jacob, all of thee; I will surely gather the remnant of Israel; I will put them together as the sheep of Bozrah: as a flock in the midst of their pasture, they shall make great noise by reason of the multitude of men.

Hosea 8:7

For they sow the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind: he hath no standing corn; the blade shall yield no meal; if so be it yield, strangers shall swallow it up.

Lamentations 5:2

Our inheritance is turned unto strangers, our houses unto aliens.

Jeremiah 5:28

They are waxen fat, they shine: yea, they overpass in deeds of wickedness: they plead not the cause, the cause of the fatherless, that they should prosper; and the right of the needy do they not judge,

Isaiah 65:10

And Sharon shall be a fold of flocks, and the valley of Achor a place for herds to lie down in, for my people that have sought me.

Isaiah 40:11

He shall feed his flock like a shepherd, he shall gather the lambs in his arm, and carry them in his bosom, and shall gently lead those that give suck.

Isaiah 32:14

For the palace shall be forsaken; the populous city shall be deserted; the hill and the watch-tower shall be for dens for ever, a joy of wild asses, a pasture of flocks;

Isaiah 17:2

The cities of Aroer are forsaken: they shall be for flocks, which shall lie down, and none shall make them afraid.

Isaiah 10:16

Therefore shall the Lord, the Lord of hosts, send among his fat ones leanness; and under his glory there shall be kindled a burning like the burning of fire.

Isaiah 1:7

Your country is desolate; your cities are burned with fire; your land, strangers devour it in your presence, and it is desolate, as overthrown by strangers.

Psalm 119:70

Their heart is as fat as grease; But I delight in thy law.

Psalm 73:7

Their eyes stand out with fatness: They have more than heart could wish.

Psalm 17:14

From men, by thy hand, O LORD, From men of the world, whose portion is in this life, And whose belly thou fillest with thy treasure: They are satisfied with children, And leave the rest of their substance to their babes.

Psalm 17:10

They are enclosed in their own fat: With their mouth they speak proudly.

Nehemiah 9:37

And it yieldeth much increase unto the kings whom thou hast set over us because of our sins: also they have power over our bodies, and over our cattle, at their pleasure, and we are in great distress.

Deuteronomy 32:15

But Jeshurun waxed fat, and kicked: Thou art waxen fat, thou art grown thick, thou art become sleek: Then he forsook God which made him, And lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation.

Deuteronomy 28:33

The fruit of thy ground, and all thy labours, shall a nation which thou knowest not eat up; and thou shalt be only oppressed and crushed alway:

Hosea 4:16

For Israel hath behaved himself stubbornly, like a stubborn heifer: now will the LORD feed them as a lamb in a large place.