Isaiah 5:17

Modern English Version

Then the lambs shall feed in their pasture, and strangers shall eat in the waste places of the wealthy.

Cross References

Nehemiah 9:37

because its abundant produce belongs to the kings whom You have set over us due to our sins. They have control over our bodies and over our livestock, as they please. We are in great distress.”

Psalm 119:70

Their heart is insensitive, like fat, but I delight in Your law.

Psalm 17:10

They close their hard hearts; with their mouths they speak proudly.

Psalm 17:14

from men by Your hand, O  Lord, from men of the world whose portion is in this life. You fill their belly with Your treasure; they are satisfied with children, and they leave their abundance to their infants.

Psalm 73:7

Their eyes bulge with fatness; they have more than a heart could wish.

Isaiah 1:7

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

Isaiah 10:16

Therefore the Lord, God of Hosts, shall send leanness among his stout ones, and under his glory he shall kindle a burning like the burning of a fire.

Isaiah 17:2

The cities of Aroer are forsaken; they shall be for flocks, which shall lie down, and no one shall make them afraid.

Isaiah 32:14

because the palaces have been forsaken, the populated city is forsaken. The forts and towers shall be caves forever, a joy of wild donkeys, a pasture of flocks,

Isaiah 40:11

He shall feed His flock like a shepherd; He shall gather the lambs with His arm, and carry them in His bosom, and shall gently lead those that are with young.

Isaiah 65:10

Sharon shall be a fold of flocks, and the Valley of Achor a place for the herds to lie down in, for My people who seek Me.

Isaiah 7:25

On all hills that used to be cultivated with the hoe, you will not go there for fear of briers and thorns. But it shall be for pasturing oxen and for sheep to tread.

Jeremiah 5:28

They are fat, they are sleek. Indeed, they excel in deeds of wickedness. They do not judge the cause of the fatherless, so that they may prosper; and the right of the needy they do not defend.

Lamentations 5:2

Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers, our homes to foreigners.

Hosea 4:16

Like a stubborn heifer, Israel is stubborn. Now will the Lord feed them like a lamb in a wide pasture?

Hosea 8:7

For they sow the wind, and they will reap the whirlwind. The standing grain has no head and will yield no flour. If it were to yield, foreigners would swallow it up.

Micah 2:12

I will indeed assemble Jacob—all of you; I will indeed gather the remnant of Israel. I will place them together like sheep in a fold, like a herd in its pasture— thronging with people.

Zephaniah 2:14

Herds will lie down in her midst, beasts of every kind; the cormorant and the bittern will lodge on her pillars. Their voice will sing in the windows; desolation will be on the threshold; for He will lay bare the cedar work.

Zephaniah 2:6

The seacoast will be pastures, with meadows for shepherds and folds for flocks.

Luke 21:24

They will fall by the edge of the sword and will be led away captive to all nations. And Jerusalem will be trampled on by the Gentiles until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled.

Deuteronomy 28:33

A nation that you do not know will consume the produce of your land and all your labors, and you will be nothing but oppressed and crushed all the time.

Deuteronomy 32:15

But Jeshurun grew fat and kicked; you grew fat, you grew thick; you are covered with fat. Then he forsook God who made him, and devalued the rock of his salvation.