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 80:8–11Thou hast brought a vine out of Egypt: thou hast cast out the heathen, and planted it.
• Jas 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.
• Matt 3:8–10Bring forth therefore fruits meet for repentance:
• Jer 12:10Many pastors have destroyed my vineyard, they have trodden my portion under foot, they have made my pleasant portion a desolate wilderness.
• Prov 21:13Whoso stoppeth his ears at the cry of the poor, he also shall cry himself, but shall not be heard.
• Exod 3:7And the LORD said, I have surely seen the affliction of my people which are in Egypt, and have heard their cry by reason of their taskmasters; for I know their sorrows;
• Ps 80:15And the vineyard which thy right hand hath planted, and the branch that thou madest strong for thyself.
• Isa 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.
• Deut 15:9Beware that there be not a thought in thy wicked heart, saying, The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand; and thine eye be evil against thy poor brother, and thou givest him nought; and he cry unto the LORD against thee, and it be sin unto thee.
• 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.
• Mic 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?
• Zeph 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.
• Ps 149:4For the LORD taketh pleasure in his people: he will beautify the meek with salvation.
• Song 7:6How fair and how pleasant art thou, O love, for delights!
• Isa 58:6–8Is 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, and that ye break every yoke?
• Ps 147:11The LORD taketh pleasure in them that fear him, in those that hope in his mercy.
• 1 Cor 6:8–11Nay, ye do wrong, and defraud, and that your brethren.
• Isa 3:14The LORD will enter into judgment with the ancients of his people, and the princes thereof: for ye have eaten up the vineyard; the spoil of the poor is in your houses.
• Zech 7:9–14Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts, saying, Execute true judgment, and shew mercy and compassions every man to his brother:
• Matt 23:23Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin, and have omitted the weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith: these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone.
• Isa 1:6From the sole of the foot even unto the head there is no soundness in it; but wounds, and bruises, and putrifying sores: they have not been closed, neither bound up, neither mollified with ointment.
• Job 31:38–39If my land cry against me, or that the furrows likewise thereof complain;
• Luke 18:7And shall not God avenge his own elect, which cry day and night unto him, though he bear long with them?
• Isa 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.
• Isa 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.
• Neh 5:1–5And there was a great cry of the people and of their wives against their brethren the Jews.
• Job 34:28So that they cause the cry of the poor to come unto him, and he heareth the cry of the afflicted.
• Exod 2:23–24And 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, and they cried, and their cry came up unto God by reason of the bondage.
• Gen 4:10And he said, What hast thou done? the voice of thy brother’s blood crieth unto me from the ground.
• Exod 22:21–27Thou shalt neither vex a stranger, nor oppress him: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.
• 1 Jn 3:7–8Little children, let no man deceive you: he that doeth righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous.

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