Isaiah 5:17

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

His people will be like sheep grazing in their own pasture, and they will take off what was left by others.

Cross References

Nehemiah 9:37

Its plentiful harvest is taken by kings you placed over us because of our sins. Our suffering is unbearable, because they do as they wish to us and our livestock.

Psalm 119:70

Those liars have no sense, but I find happiness in your Law.

Psalm 17:10

They refuse to show mercy, and they keep boasting.

Psalm 17:14

Use your powerful arm and rescue me from the hands of mere humans whose world won't last. You provide food for those you love. Their children have plenty, and their grandchildren will have more than enough.

Psalm 73:7

Their eyes bulge with fat, and their minds are flooded with foolish thoughts.

Isaiah 1:7

Your country lies in ruins; your towns are in ashes. Foreigners and strangers take and destroy your land while you watch.

Isaiah 10:16

The mighty LORD All-Powerful will send a terrible disease to strike down your army, and you will burn with fever under your royal robes.

Isaiah 17:2

The villages around Aroer will be deserted, with only sheep living there and no one to bother them.

Isaiah 32:14

The palace will be deserted, the crowded city empty. Fortresses and towers will for ever become playgrounds for wild donkeys and pastures for sheep.

Isaiah 40:11

The LORD cares for his nation, just as shepherds care for their flocks. He carries the lambs in his arms, while gently leading the mother sheep.

Isaiah 65:10

My people will worship me. Then the coastlands of Sharon and the land as far as Achor Valley will turn into pasture land where cattle and sheep will feed and rest.

Isaiah 7:25

The hills where you once planted crops will be overgrown with thorns and thistles. You will be afraid to go there, and your cattle, sheep, and goats will be turned loose on those hills.

Jeremiah 5:28

and prosperous, but you refuse to help the poor get the justice they deserve.

Lamentations 5:2

Foreigners and strangers have taken our land and our homes.

Hosea 4:16

You are nothing more than a stubborn cow— so stubborn that I, the LORD, cannot feed you like lambs in an open pasture.

Hosea 8:7

If you scatter wind instead of wheat, you will harvest a whirlwind and have no wheat. Even if you harvest grain, enemies will steal it all.

Micah 2:12

I, the LORD, promise to bring together the people of Israel who have survived. I will gather them, just as a shepherd brings sheep together, and there will be many.

Zephaniah 2:14

Herds of wild animals will live in its rubble; all kinds of desert owls will perch on its stones and hoot in the windows. Noisy ravens will be heard inside its buildings, stripped bare of cedar.

Zephaniah 2:6

Your coast will be changed into pasture land and sheep pens.

Luke 21:24

Some of them will be killed by swords. Others will be carried off to foreign countries. Jerusalem will be overrun by foreign nations until their time comes to an end.

Deuteronomy 28:33

You will work hard on your farms, but everything you harvest will be eaten by foreigners, who will ill-treat you and abuse you for the rest of your life.

Deuteronomy 32:15

Israel, you grew fat and rebelled against God, your Creator; you rejected the Mighty Rock, your only place of safety.