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 brought a vine out of Egypt. You drove out the nations, and planted it.
• Jas 5:4Behold, the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you have kept back by fraud, cry out, and the cries of those who reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of Armies.
• Matt 3:8–10Therefore produce fruit worthy of repentance!
• Jer 12:10Many shepherds have destroyed my vineyard. They have trodden my portion under foot. They have made my pleasant portion a desolate wilderness.
• Prov 21:13Whoever stops his ears at the cry of the poor, he will also cry out, but shall not be heard.
• Exod 3:7Yahweh said, “I have surely seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt, and have heard their cry because of their taskmasters, for I know their sorrows.
• Ps 80:15the stock which your right hand planted, the branch that you made strong for yourself.
• Isa 5:2He dug it up, gathered out its stones, planted it with the choicest vine, built a tower in the middle of it, and also cut out a wine press therein. He looked for it to yield grapes, but it yielded wild grapes.
• Deut 15:9Beware that there not be a base thought in your heart, saying, “The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand”; and your eye be evil against your poor brother, and you give him nothing; and he cry to Yahweh against you, and it be sin to you.
• John 15:2Every branch in me that doesn’t bear fruit, he takes away. Every branch that bears fruit, he prunes, that it may bear more fruit.
• Mic 6:8He has shown you, O man, what is good. What does Yahweh require of you, but to act justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?
• Zeph 3:17Yahweh, your God, is among you, a mighty one who will save. He will rejoice over you with joy. He will calm you in his love. He will rejoice over you with singing.
• Ps 149:4For Yahweh takes pleasure in his people. He crowns the humble with salvation.
• Song 7:6How beautiful and how pleasant you are, love, for delights!
• Isa 58:6–8“Isn’t this the fast that I have chosen: to release the bonds of wickedness, to undo the straps of the yoke, to let the oppressed go free, and that you break every yoke?
• Ps 147:11Yahweh takes pleasure in those who fear him, in those who hope in his loving kindness.
• 1 Cor 6:8–11No, but you yourselves do wrong, and defraud, and that against your brothers.
• Isa 3:14Yahweh will enter into judgment with the elders of his people, and their leaders: “It is you who have eaten up the vineyard. The plunder of the poor is in your houses.
• Zech 7:9–14“Thus has Yahweh of Armies spoken, saying, ‘Execute true judgment, and show kindness and compassion every man to his brother.
• Matt 23:23“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you tithe mint, dill, and cumin, and have left undone the weightier matters of the law: justice, mercy, and faith. But you ought to have done these, and not to have left the other undone.
• Isa 1:6From the sole of the foot even to the head there is no soundness in it: wounds, welts, and open sores. They haven’t been closed, neither bandaged, neither soothed with oil.
• Job 31:38–39If my land cries out against me, and its furrows weep together;
• Luke 18:7Won’t God avenge his chosen ones, who are crying out to him day and night, and yet he exercises patience with them?
• Isa 3:17therefore the Lord brings sores on the crown of the head of the women of Zion, and Yahweh will make their scalps bald.”
• Isa 62:5For as a young man marries a virgin, so your sons will marry you. As a bridegroom rejoices over his bride, so your God will rejoice over you.
• Neh 5:1–5Then there arose a great cry of the people and of their wives against their brothers the Jews.
• Job 34:28so that they caused the cry of the poor to come to him. He heard the cry of the afflicted.
• Exod 2:23–24In the course of those many days, the king of Egypt died, and the children of Israel sighed because of the bondage, and they cried, and their cry came up to God because of the bondage.
• Gen 4:10Yahweh said, “What have you done? The voice of your brother’s blood cries to me from the ground.
• Exod 22:21–27“You shall not wrong an alien or oppress him, for you were aliens in the land of Egypt.
• 1 Jn 3:7–8Little children, let no one lead you astray. He who does righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous.

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