Isaiah 5:7

Isaiah reveals the vineyard is Israel and Judah, in whom God sought justice and righteousness but found bloodshed and outcry. It is the parable's stinging interpretation and core charge.

Cross-references · 31

• Ps 80:8–11You uprooted a vine from Egypt; You drove out the nations and transplanted it.
• Jas 5:4Look, the wages you withheld from the workmen who mowed your fields are crying out against you. The cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord of Hosts.
• Matt 3:8–10Produce fruit, then, in keeping with repentance.
• Jer 12:10Many shepherds have destroyed My vineyard; they have trampled My plot of ground. They have turned My pleasant field into a desolate wasteland.
• Prov 21:13Whoever shuts his ears to the cry of the poor, he too shall cry out and receive no answer.
• Exod 3:7The LORD said, “I have indeed seen the affliction of My people in Egypt. I have heard them crying out because of their oppressors, and I am aware of their sufferings.
• Ps 80:15the root Your right hand has planted, the son You have raised up for Yourself.
• Isa 5:2He dug it up and cleared the stones and planted the finest vines. He built a watchtower in the middle and dug out a winepress as well. He waited for the vineyard to yield good grapes, but the fruit it produced was sour!
• Deut 15:9Be careful not to harbor this wicked thought in your heart: “The seventh year, the year of release, is near,” so that you look upon your poor brother begrudgingly and give him nothing. He will cry out to the LORD against you, and you will be guilty of sin.
• John 15:2He cuts off every branch in Me that bears no fruit, and every branch that does bear fruit, He prunes to make it even more fruitful.
• Mic 6:8He has shown you, O man, what is good. And what does the LORD require of you but to act justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?
• Zeph 3:17The LORD your God is among you; He is mighty to save. He will rejoice over you with gladness; He will quiet you with His love; He will rejoice over you with singing.”
• Ps 149:4For the LORD takes pleasure in His people; He adorns the afflicted with salvation.
• Song 7:6How fair and pleasant you are, O love, with your delights!
• Isa 58:6–8Isn’t this the fast that I have chosen: to break the chains of wickedness, to untie the cords of the yoke, to set the oppressed free and tear off every yoke?
• Ps 147:11The LORD is pleased with those who fear Him, who hope in His loving devotion.
• 1 Cor 6:8–11Instead, you yourselves cheat and do wrong, even against your own brothers!
• Isa 3:14The LORD brings this charge against the elders and leaders of His people: “You have devoured the vineyard; the plunder of the poor is in your houses.
• Zech 7:9–14“This is what the LORD of Hosts says: ‘Administer true justice. Show loving devotion and compassion to one another.
• Matt 23:23Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You pay tithes of mint, dill, and cumin. But you have disregarded the weightier matters of the law: justice, mercy, and faithfulness. You should have practiced the latter, without neglecting the former.
• Isa 1:6From the sole of your foot to the top of your head, there is no soundness—only wounds and welts and festering sores neither cleansed nor bandaged nor soothed with oil.
• Job 31:38–39if my land cries out against me and its furrows weep together,
• Luke 18:7Will not God bring about justice for His elect who cry out to Him day and night? Will He continue to defer their help?
• Isa 3:17the Lord will bring sores on the heads of the daughters of Zion, and the LORD will make their foreheads bare.”
• Isa 62:5For as a young man marries a young woman, so your sons will marry you; and as a bridegroom rejoices over his bride, so your God will rejoice over you.
• Neh 5:1–5About that time there was a great outcry from the people and their wives against their fellow Jews.
• Job 34:28They caused the cry of the poor to come before Him, and He heard the outcry of the afflicted.
• Exod 2:23–24After a long time, the king of Egypt died. The Israelites groaned and cried out under their burden of slavery, and their cry for deliverance from bondage ascended to God.
• Gen 4:10“What have you done?” replied the LORD. “The voice of your brother’s blood cries out to Me from the ground.
• Exod 22:21–27You must not exploit or oppress a foreign resident, for you yourselves were foreigners in the land of Egypt.
• 1 Jn 3:7–8Little children, let no one deceive you: The one who practices righteousness is righteous, just as Christ is righteous.

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