Isaiah 5:7

Modern English Version

For the vineyard of the Lord of Hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah His pleasant plant. Thus He looked for justice, but behold, oppression; for righteousness, but behold, an outcry!

Cross References

Genesis 4:10

And then He said, “What have you done? The voice of your brother’s blood is crying out to Me from the ground.

2 Samuel 7:10

Moreover, I will appoint a place for My people Israel. I will plant them, and they will dwell in that very place. They will be restless no longer, and the unjust will no longer oppress them, as in former times,

Job 34:28

so that they cause the cry of the poor to come unto Him; and He hears the cry of the afflicted.

Psalm 147:11

The Lord takes pleasure in those who fear Him, in those who hope in His mercy.

Psalm 149:4

For the Lord takes pleasure in His people; He will beautify the meek with salvation.

Psalm 80:15

the shoot that Your right hand planted, and for the son whom You made strong for Yourself.

Exodus 3:7

The Lord said, “I have surely seen the affliction of My people who are in Egypt and have heard their cry on account of their taskmasters, for I know their sorrows.

Proverbs 21:13

He who shuts his ears to the cry of the poor, he also will cry out, but will not be heard.

Ecclesiastes 4:1

Again I turned and observed all types of oppression that are done under the sun: Behold, the tears of the oppressed, and no one was there to comfort them. There was force from the hand of the oppressors, and no one was there to comfort them.

Song of Solomon 7:6

How beautiful and how pleasant you are, my beloved, with all your delights!

Isaiah 1:21

How the faithful city has become a prostitute! She was full of justice; righteousness lodged in her, but now murderers.

Isaiah 1:6

From the sole of the foot even to the head there is no soundness in it. Wounds, bruises, and open sores; they have not been closed, nor bandaged, nor soothed with oil.

Isaiah 27:2

In that day: Sing of it! A vineyard of red wine.

Isaiah 3:14

The Lord will enter into judgment with the elders and the princes of His people: For you have eaten up the vineyard; the spoil of the poor is in your houses.

Isaiah 3:15

What do you mean that you beat My people to pieces and grind the faces of the poor? says the Lord God of Hosts.

Isaiah 3:17

therefore, the Lord will strike with a scab the crown of the head of the daughters of Zion, and the Lord will make their foreheads bare.

Isaiah 30:12

Therefore, thus says the Holy One of Israel: Because you despise this word and trust in oppression and perverseness, and rely on them,

Isaiah 46:12

Listen to Me, you stubborn-hearted, who are far from righteousness;

Isaiah 5:2

And He fenced it, and removed its stones, and planted it with the choicest vine. And He built a tower in the midst of it, and also made a winepress in it; and He expected it to bring forth good grapes, but it brought forth wild grapes.

Isaiah 59:13

transgressing, and lying against the Lord, and departing away from our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.

Isaiah 59:14

Justice is turned backward, and righteousness stands far off; for truth is fallen in the street, and equity cannot enter.

Isaiah 59:4

No one calls for justice, nor does anyone plead for truth. They trust in vanity and speak lies; they conceive mischief and bring forth iniquity.

Isaiah 62:5

For as a young man marries a virgin, so your sons shall marry you; and as the bridegroom rejoices over the bride, so your God shall rejoice over you.

Jeremiah 12:10

Many shepherds have destroyed My vineyard; they have trodden My portion underfoot; they have made My pleasant portion a desolate wilderness.

Jeremiah 24:2

One basket had very good figs, even like the figs that are first ripe, and the other basket had very rotten figs, which were so rotten they could not be eaten.

Jeremiah 50:46

At the shout, “Babylon has been seized!” the earth is shaken, and the outcry is heard among the nations.

Ezekiel 22:29

The people of the land have used oppression and exercised robbery and have vexed the poor and needy and have oppressed the sojourner wrongfully.

Hosea 10:1

Israel is a fertile vine that brings forth its fruit. As his fruit multiplied, so his altars increased; as his land prospered, so he improved his pillars.

Micah 6:12

Her wealthy men are full of violence, and her inhabitants speak deception, and their tongue in their mouth is treachery.

Micah 6:8

He has told you, O man, what is good— and what does the Lord require of you, but to do justice and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?

Habakkuk 1:3

Why do You make me see wickedness, and cause me to see trouble? Plundering and violence are before me; strife and contention arise.

Zephaniah 3:17

The Lord your God is in your midst, a Mighty One, who will save. He will rejoice over you with gladness, He will renew you with His love, He will rejoice over you with singing.

Matthew 23:23

“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! You tithe mint and dill and cumin, but have neglected the weightier matters of the law: justice and mercy and faith. These you ought to have done without leaving the others undone.

Luke 18:7

And shall not God avenge His own elect and be patient with them, who cry day and night to Him?

John 15:2

Every branch in Me that bears no fruit, He takes away. And every branch that bears fruit, He prunes, that it may bear more fruit.

Deuteronomy 15:9

Beware lest there be a wicked thought in your heart, saying, “The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand,” and your eye be evil against your poor brother and you give him nothing, and he cry out to the Lord against you, and it become sin in you.

James 5:4

Behold, the wages that you kept back by fraud from the laborers who harvested your fields are crying, and the cries of those who harvested have entered into the ears of the Lord of Hosts.