Isaiah 5:17

New American Bible - revised edition

Lambs shall graze as at pasture, young goats shall eat in the ruins of the rich.

Cross References

Nehemiah 9:37

Its rich produce goes to the kings you set over us because of our sins, Who rule over our bodies and our cattle as they please. We are in great distress!”

Psalm 119:70

Their hearts are gross and fat; as for me, your law is my delight.

Psalm 17:10

they close their hearts, they fill their mouths with proud roaring.

Psalm 17:14

Slay them with your sword; with your hand, Lord, slay them; snatch them from the world in their prime. Their bellies are being filled with your friends; their children are satisfied too, for they share what is left with their young.

Psalm 73:7

Out of such blindness comes sin; evil thoughts flood their hearts.

Isaiah 1:7

Your country is waste, your cities burnt with fire; Your land—before your eyes strangers devour it, a waste, like the devastation of Sodom.

Isaiah 10:16

Therefore the Lord, the Lord of hosts, will send leanness among his fat ones, And under his glory there will be a kindling like the kindling of fire.

Isaiah 17:2

Her cities shall be forever abandoned, for flocks to lie in undisturbed.

Isaiah 32:14

The castle will be forsaken, the noisy city deserted; Citadel and tower will become wasteland forever, the joy of wild donkeys, the pasture of flocks;

Isaiah 40:11

Like a shepherd he feeds his flock; in his arms he gathers the lambs, Carrying them in his bosom, leading the ewes with care.

Isaiah 65:10

Sharon shall become a pasture for the flocks, the Valley of Achor a resting place for the cattle, for my people who have sought me.

Isaiah 7:25

But as for all the hills which were hoed with a mattock, for fear of briers and thorns you will not go there; they shall become a place for cattle to roam and sheep to trample.

Jeremiah 5:28

fat and sleek. They pass over wicked deeds; justice they do not defend By advancing the claim of the orphan or judging the cause of the poor.

Lamentations 5:2

Our heritage is turned over to strangers, our homes, to foreigners.

Hosea 4:16

For like a stubborn cow, Israel is stubborn; Will the Lord now pasture them, like lambs in a broad meadow?

Hosea 8:7

When they sow the wind, they will reap the whirlwind; The stalk of grain that forms no head can yield no flour; Even if it could, strangers would swallow it.

Micah 2:12

I will gather you, Jacob, each and every one, I will assemble all the remnant of Israel; I will group them like a flock in the fold, like a herd in its pasture; the noise of the people will resound.

Zephaniah 2:14

In her midst flocks shall lie down, all the wild life of the hollows; The screech owl and the desert owl shall roost in her columns; The owl shall hoot from the window, the raven croak from the doorway.

Zephaniah 2:6

You shall become fields for shepherds, and folds for flocks.

Luke 21:24

They will fall by the edge of the sword and be taken as captives to all the Gentiles; and Jerusalem will be trampled underfoot by the Gentiles until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled. The Coming of the Son of Man.

Deuteronomy 28:33

A people you do not know will consume the fruit of your soil and of all your labor, and you will be thoroughly oppressed and continually crushed,

Deuteronomy 32:15

So Jacob ate and was satisfied, Jeshurun grew fat and kicked; you became fat and gross and gorged. They forsook the God who made them and scorned the Rock of their salvation.