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. Treasury of Scripture the vineyard Psalm 80:8-11,15 You have brought a vine out of Egypt: you have cast out the heathen, and planted it... Jeremiah 12:10 Many pastors have destroyed my vineyard, they have trodden my portion under foot... his pleasant plant. Heb. plant of his pleasures 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... Psalm 147:11 The LORD takes pleasure in them that fear him, in those that hope in his mercy. Psalm 149:4 For the LORD takes pleasure in his people: he will beautify the meek with salvation. Songs 7:6 How fair and how pleasant are you, O love, for delights! Zephaniah 3:17 The LORD your God in the middle of you is mighty; he will save, he will rejoice over you with joy; he will rest in his love... he looked Isaiah 5:2 And he fenced it, and gathered out the stones thereof, and planted it with the choicest vine, and built a tower in the middle of it... Isaiah 58:6-8 Is not this the fast that I have chosen? to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free... Exodus 22:22-27 You shall not afflict any widow, or fatherless child... Micah 6:8 He has showed you, O man, what is good; and what does the LORD require of you, but to do justly, and to love mercy... Zechariah 7:9-14 Thus speaks the LORD of hosts, saying, Execute true judgment, and show mercy and compassions every man to his brother... Matthew 3:8-10 Bring forth therefore fruits meet for repentance... Matthew 23:23 Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin... John 15:2 Every branch in me that bears not fruit he takes away: and every branch that bears fruit, he purges it... 1 Corinthians 6:8-11 No, you do wrong, and defraud, and that your brothers... 1 John 3:7,8 Little children, let no man deceive you: he that does righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous... but. The paronomasia, or play of words, is very remarkable here: he looked for mishpat, judgment, but behold mispach, oppression; for tzedakah, justice, but behold tzedkah, a cry. oppression. Heb. a scab Isaiah 1:6 From the sole of the foot even to the head there is no soundness in it; but wounds, and bruises, and putrefying sores... Isaiah 3:17 Therefore 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... a cry Genesis 4:10 And he said, What have you done? the voice of your brother's blood cries to me from the ground. Exodus 2:23,24 And it came to pass in process of time, that the king of Egypt died: and the children of Israel sighed by reason of the bondage... Exodus 3:7 And the LORD said, I have surely seen the affliction of my people which are in Egypt... Exodus 22:21-24,27 You shall neither vex a stranger, nor oppress him: for you were strangers in the land of Egypt... Deuteronomy 15:9 Beware that there be not a thought in your wicked heart, saying, The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand... Nehemiah 5:1-5 And there was a great cry of the people and of their wives against their brothers the Jews... Job 31:38,39 If my land cry against me, or that the furrows likewise thereof complain... Job 34:28 So that they cause the cry of the poor to come to him, and he hears the cry of the afflicted. Proverbs 21:13 Whoever stops his ears at the cry of the poor, he also shall cry himself, but shall not be heard. Luke 18:7 And shall not God avenge his own elect, which cry day and night to him, though he bear long with them? James 5:4 Behold, the hire of the laborers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, cries...
Context The Song of the Vineyard
1Now will I sing to my well beloved a song of my beloved touching his vineyard. My well beloved has a vineyard in a very fruitful hill: 2And he fenced it, and gathered out the stones thereof, and planted it with the choicest vine, and built a tower in the middle of it, and also made a wine press therein: and he looked that it should bring forth grapes, and it brought forth wild grapes. 3And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem, and men of Judah, judge, I pray you, between me and my vineyard. 4What could have been done more to my vineyard, that I have not done in it? why, when I looked that it should bring forth grapes, brought it forth wild grapes? 5And 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: 6And I will lay it waste: it shall not be pruned, nor dig; but there shall come up briers and thorns: I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain on it. 7For 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. Parallel Verses 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.
Douay-Rheims Bible
For the vineyard of the Lord of hosts is the house of Israel: and the man of Juda, his pleasant plant: and I looked that he should do judgment, and behold iniquity: and do justice, and behold a cry.
Darby Bible Translation
For the vineyard of Jehovah of hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah the plant of his delight: and he looked for justice, and behold, blood-shedding; for righteousness, and behold, a cry.
King James Bible
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.
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.
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