Isaiah 5:7

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

For the vineyard of the Lord of hosts is the house of Israel, and the people of Judah are his cherished garden; he expected justice but saw bloodshed; righteousness but heard a cry!

Cross References

Genesis 4:10

And the Lord said, “What have you done? Listen, your brother’s blood is crying out to me from the ground!

2 Samuel 7:10

And I will appoint a place for my people Israel and will plant them, so that they may live in their own place and be disturbed no more, and evildoers shall afflict them no more, as formerly,

Job 34:28

so that they caused the cry of the poor to come to him, and he heard the cry of the afflicted—

Psalm 147:11

but the Lord takes pleasure in those who fear him, in those who hope in his steadfast love.

Psalm 149:4

For the Lord takes pleasure in his people; he adorns the humble with victory.

Psalm 80:15

the stock that your right hand planted.

Exodus 3:7

Then the Lord said, “I have observed the misery of my people who are in Egypt; I have heard their cry on account of their taskmasters. Indeed, I know their sufferings,

Proverbs 21:13

If you close your ear to the cry of the poor, you will cry out and not be heard.

Ecclesiastes 4:1

Again I saw all the oppressions that are practiced under the sun. Look, the tears of the oppressed—with no one to comfort them! On the side of their oppressors there was power—with no one to comfort them.

Song of Solomon 7:6

How fair and pleasant you are, O loved one, delectable maiden!

Isaiah 1:21

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

Isaiah 1:6

From the sole of the foot to the head, there is no soundness in it, only bruises and sores and bleeding wounds; they have not been drained or bound up or softened with oil.

Isaiah 27:2

On that day: A pleasant vineyard—sing about it!

Isaiah 3:14

The Lord enters into judgment with the elders and princes of his people: It is you who have devoured the vineyard; the spoil of the poor is in your houses.

Isaiah 3:15

What do you mean by crushing my people, by grinding the face of the poor? says the Lord God of hosts.

Isaiah 3:17

the Lord will afflict with scabs the heads of the daughters of Zion, and the Lord will lay bare their scalps and heads.

Isaiah 30:12

Therefore thus says the Holy One of Israel: Because you reject this word and put your trust in oppression and deceit and rely on them,

Isaiah 46:12

Listen to me, you stubborn of heart, you who are far from deliverance:

Isaiah 5:2

He dug it and cleared it of stones and planted it with choice vines; he built a watchtower in the midst of it and hewed out a wine vat in it; he expected it to yield grapes, but it yielded rotten grapes.

Isaiah 59:13

transgressing and denying the Lord and turning away from following our God, talking oppression and revolt, conceiving lying words and uttering them from the heart.

Isaiah 59:14

Justice is turned back, and deliverance stands at a distance, for truth stumbles in the public square, and uprightness cannot enter.

Isaiah 59:4

No one brings suit justly; no one goes to law honestly; they rely on empty pleas; they speak lies, conceiving mischief and bearing iniquity.

Isaiah 62:5

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

Jeremiah 12:10

Many shepherds have destroyed my vineyard; they have trampled down my portion; they have made my pleasant portion a desolate wilderness.

Jeremiah 24:2

One basket had very good figs, like first-ripe figs, but the other basket had very bad figs, so bad that they could not be eaten.

Jeremiah 50:46

At the sound of the capture of Babylon the earth shall tremble, and a cry shall be heard among the nations.

Ezekiel 22:29

The people of the land have practiced extortion and committed robbery; they have oppressed the poor and needy and have extorted from the alien without justice.

Hosea 10:1

Israel is a luxuriant vine that yields its fruit. The more his fruit increased, the more altars he built; as his country improved, he improved his pillars.

Micah 6:12

Your wealthy are full of violence; your inhabitants speak lies with tongues of deceit in their mouths.

Micah 6:8

He has told you, O mortal, 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 wrongdoing and look at trouble? Destruction and violence are before me; strife and contention arise.

Zephaniah 3:17

The Lord, your God, is in your midst, a warrior who gives victory; he will rejoice over you with gladness; he will renew you in his love; he will exult over you with loud singing

Matthew 23:23

“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you tithe mint, dill, and cumin and have neglected the weightier matters of the law: justice and mercy and faith. It is these you ought to have practiced without neglecting the others.

Luke 18:7

And will not God grant justice to his chosen ones who cry to him day and night? Will he delay long in helping them?

John 15:2

He removes every branch in me that bears no fruit. Every branch that bears fruit he prunes to make it bear more fruit.

Deuteronomy 15:9

Be careful that you do not entertain a mean thought, thinking, ‘The seventh year, the year of remission, is near,’ and therefore view your needy neighbor with hostility and give nothing; your neighbor might cry to the Lord against you, and you would incur guilt.

James 5:4

Listen! The wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you kept back by fraud, cry out, and the cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord of hosts.