Isaiah 5:7

Revised Standard Version

For the vineyard of the Lord of hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah are his pleasant planting; and he looked for justice, but behold, bloodshed; for righteousness, but behold, a cry!

Cross References

Genesis 4:10

And the Lord said, “What have you done? The voice of your brother's blood is crying to me from the ground.

2 Samuel 7:10

And I will appoint a place for my people Israel, and will plant them, that they may dwell in their own place, and be disturbed no more; and violent men 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 which thy right hand planted.

Exodus 3:7

Then the Lord said, “I have seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt, and have heard their cry because of their taskmasters; I know their sufferings,

Proverbs 21:13

He who closes his ear to the cry of the poor will himself cry out and not be heard.

Ecclesiastes 4:1

Again I saw all the oppressions that are practiced under the sun. And behold, the tears of the oppressed, and they had no one to comfort them! On the side of their oppressors there was power, and there was 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 harlot, she that 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, but bruises and sores and bleeding wounds; they are not pressed out, or bound up, or softened with oil.

Isaiah 27:2

In that day: “A pleasant vineyard, sing of 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 smite with a scab the heads of the daughters of Zion, and the Lord will lay bare their secret parts.

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

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

Isaiah 5:2

He digged 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; and he looked for it to yield grapes, but it yielded wild grapes.

Isaiah 59:13

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

Isaiah 59:14

Justice is turned back, and righteousness stands afar off; for truth has fallen in the public squares, and uprightness cannot enter.

Isaiah 59:4

No one enters suit justly, no one goes to law honestly; they rely on empty pleas, they speak lies, they conceive mischief and bring forth iniquity.

Isaiah 62:5

For as a young man marries a virgin, so shall your sons 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 her 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 sojourner without redress.

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 rich men are full of violence; your inhabitants speak lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.

Micah 6:8

He has showed 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 dost thou make me see wrongs and look upon 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 and dill and cummin, and have neglected the weightier matters of the law, justice and mercy and faith; these you ought to have done, without neglecting the others.

Luke 18:7

And will not God vindicate his elect, who cry to him day and night? Will he delay long over them?

John 15:2

Every branch of mine that bears no fruit, he takes away, and every branch that does bear fruit he prunes, that it may bear more fruit.

Deuteronomy 15:9

Take heed lest there be a base thought in your heart, and you say, ‘The seventh year, the year of release is near,’ and your eye be hostile to your poor brother, and you give him nothing, and he cry to the Lord against you, and it be sin in you.

James 5:4

Behold, 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.