Isaiah 5:17 BSB — MannaFest

Isaiah 5:17

Lambs will graze as in their own pastures, and strangers will feed in the ruins of the wealthy.

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ASV

Then shall the lambs feed as in their pasture, and the waste places of the fat ones shall wanderers eat.

KJV

Then shall the lambs feed after their manner, and the waste places of the fat ones shall strangers eat.

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Commentary

3 voices

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

Then shall the lambs feed - This verse is very variously interpreted. Most of the Hebrew commentators have followed the Chaldee interpretation, and have regarded it as desired to console the pious part of the people with the assurance of protection in the general calamity. The Chaldee is, ‘Then the just shall feed, as it is said, to them; and they shall be multiplied, and shall possess the property of the inpious.’ By this interpretation, “lambs” are supposed, as is frequently the case in the Scriptures, to represent the people of God.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament (1765)

Then - When God shall have finished that work of judgment. The lambs - The poor and harmless people, who shall be left in the land when the rich are carried into captivity. Manner - Or, by their fold, as this word is manifestly used, Micah ii, 12, the only place of scripture, except this, in which this word is found.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Charles Spurgeon

1834–1892

The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit, Sermon No. 3199: “How the Lambs Feed” (lightly modernized text, CCEL edition) (1910)

THE sense of this passage may be that Judea would be so desolated that it would become rather a wild wilderness pasture for flocks than an inhabited country. But that is not the meaning which the old readers of the Bible were accustomed to give to it. The Hebrew commentators considered "the lambs" to mean the house of Israel and regarded this as a promise that in all times of distress and affliction, God's flock would still be fed—there would still be a people kept alive and these should still meet with suitable support.

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Original language & word study

7 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וְרָע֥וּ	ve.ra.'U	and they will graze	H7462 →
כְבָשִׂ֖ים	khe.va.Sim	lambs	H3532 →
כְּדָבְרָ֑ם	ke.da.ve.Ram	like own pasture their	H1699 →
וְחָרְב֥וֹת	ve.cha.re.Vot	and [the] ruins of	H2723 →
מֵחִ֖ים	me.Chim	fatlings	H4220 →
גָּרִ֥ים	ga.Rim	sojourners	H1481 →
יֹאכֵֽלוּ׃	yo.Khe.lu	they will eat	H398 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

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Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Isaiah 17:2
The cities of Aroer are forsaken; they will be left to the flocks, which will lie down with no one to fear.
leads to
- Ezekiel 25:5
  I will make Rabbah a pasture for camels, and Ammon a resting place for sheep. Then you will know that I am the LORD.’
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Zephaniah 2:6
  So the seacoast will become a land of pastures, with wells for shepherds and folds for sheep.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Deuteronomy 2:36
  From Aroer on the rim of the Arnon Valley, along with the city in the valley, even as far as Gilead, not one city had walls too high for us. The LORD our God…
- Jeremiah 7:33
  The corpses of this people will become food for the birds of the air and the beasts of the earth, and there will be no one to scare them away.
- Micah 4:4
  And each man will sit under his own vine and under his own fig tree, with no one to frighten him. For the mouth of the LORD of Hosts has spoken.
Through
Isaiah 7:25
For fear of the briers and thorns, you will no longer traverse the hills once tilled by the hoe; they will become places for oxen to graze and sheep to trample.
leads to
- Isaiah 17:2
  The cities of Aroer are forsaken; they will be left to the flocks, which will lie down with no one to fear.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
Through
Deuteronomy 28:33
A people you do not know will eat the produce of your land and of all your toil. All your days you will be oppressed and crushed.
leads to
- Jeremiah 5:17
  They will devour your harvest and food; they will consume your sons and daughters; they will eat up your flocks and herds; they will feed on your vines and fig trees. With the sword…
Through
Zephaniah 2:14
Herds will lie down in her midst, creatures of every kind. Both the desert owl and screech owl will roost atop her pillars. Their calls will sound from the window, but desolation will lie…
leads to
- Amos 9:1
  I saw the Lord standing beside the altar, and He said: “Strike the tops of the pillars so that the thresholds shake. Topple them on the heads of all the people, and I will…

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06About Isaiah

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Where the connections lead

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