KJV King James Version
For the vineyard of the LORD of hosts [is] the house of Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasant plant: and he looked for judgment, but behold oppression; for righteousness, but behold a cry.
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Isaiah 5:7
For the vineyard of the LORD of hosts [is] the house of Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasant plant: and he looked for judgment, but behold oppression; for righteousness, but behold a cry.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
For the vineyard of the LORD of Hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah are the plant of His delight. He looked for justice, but saw bloodshed; for righteousness, but heard a cry of distress.
WEB World English Bible
For the vineyard of Yahweh of Armies is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasant plant: and he looked for justice, but, behold, oppression; for righteousness, but, behold, a cry of distress.
ASV American Standard Version
For the vineyard of Jehovah of hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasant plant: and he looked for justice, but, behold, oppression; for righteousness, but, behold, a cry.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
Because the vineyard of Jehovah of Hosts Is the house of Israel, And the man of Judah His pleasant plant, And He waiteth for judgment, and lo, oppression, For righteousness, and lo, a cry.
Surrounding context — Isaiah 5
4 What could have been done more to my vineyard, that I have not done in it? wherefore, when I looked that it should bring forth grapes, brought it forth wild grapes?
5 And now go to; I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard: I will take away the hedge thereof, and it shall be eaten up; [and] break down the wall thereof, and it shall be trodden down:
6 And I will lay it waste: it shall not be pruned, nor digged; but there shall come up briers and thorns: I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it.
7 For the vineyard of the LORD of hosts [is] the house of Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasant plant: and he looked for judgment, but behold oppression; for righteousness, but behold a cry.
8 Woe unto them that join house to house, [that] lay field to field, till [there be] no place, that they may be placed alone in the midst of the earth!
9 In mine ears [said] the LORD of hosts, Of a truth many houses shall be desolate, [even] great and fair, without inhabitant.
10 Yea, ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and the seed of an homer shall yield an ephah.
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כִּ֣יH3588 · kiforכֶ֜רֶםH3754 · ke.remvineyardיְהוָ֤הH3068 · ye.ho.vahLORDצְבָאוֹת֙H6635 · tsa.vaarmyבֵּ֣יתH1004 · betplaceיִשְׂרָאֵ֔לH3478 · yis.ra.elIsraelוְאִ֣ישׁH376 · ishmanיְהוּדָ֔הH3063 · ye.hu.dahJudahנְטַ֖עH5194 · ne.taplantationשַׁעֲשׁוּעָ֑יוH8191 · sha.shu.adelightוַיְקַ֤וH6960 · qa.vahto awaitלְמִשְׁפָּט֙H4941 · mish.patjustice: judgementוְהִנֵּ֣הH2009 · hin.nehbeholdמִשְׂפָּ֔חH4939 · mis.pachbloodshedלִצְדָקָ֖הH6666 · tse.da.qahrighteousnessוְהִנֵּ֥הH2009 · hin.nehbeholdצְעָקָֽה׃ סH6818 · tsa.a.qahcry
Cross-references
Psalm 80:8-11Thou hast brought a vine out of Egypt: thou hast cast out the heathen, and planted it.Jeremiah 12:10Many pastors have destroyed my vineyard, they have trodden my portion under foot, they have made my pleasant portion a desolate wilderness.Matthew 3:8-10Bring forth therefore fruits meet for repentance:James 5:4Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth: and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth.Song of Solomon 7:6How fair and how pleasant art thou, O love, for delights!Psalm 147:11The LORD taketh pleasure in them that fear him, in those that hope in his mercy.Luke 18:7And shall not God avenge his own elect, which cry day and night unto him, though he bear long with them?Psalm 149:4For the LORD taketh pleasure in his people: he will beautify the meek with salvation.Job 34:28So that they cause the cry of the poor to come unto him, and he heareth the cry of the afflicted.Zechariah 7:9-14Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts, saying, Execute true judgment, and shew mercy and compassions every man to his brother:Micah 6:8He hath shewed thee, O man, what [is] good; and what doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?Isaiah 62:5For [as] a young man marrieth a virgin, [so] shall thy sons marry thee: and [as] the bridegroom rejoiceth over the bride, [so] shall thy God rejoice over thee.Zephaniah 3:17The LORD thy God in the midst of thee [is] mighty; he will save, he will rejoice over thee with joy; he will rest in his love, he will joy over thee with singing.Isaiah 5:2And he fenced it, and gathered out the stones thereof, and planted it with the choicest vine, and built a tower in the midst of it, and also made a winepress therein: and he looked that it should bring forth grapes, and it brought forth wild grapes.John 15:2Every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away: and every [branch] that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit.1 Corinthians 6:8-11Nay, ye do wrong, and defraud, and that [your] brethren.Psalm 80:15And the vineyard which thy right hand hath planted, and the branch [that] thou madest strong for thyself.Isaiah 3:17Therefore the Lord will smite with a scab the crown of the head of the daughters of Zion, and the LORD will discover their secret parts.
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