Isaiah 5:7 BSB — MannaFest

Isaiah 5:7

For the vineyard of the LORD of Hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah are the plant of His delight. He looked for justice, but saw bloodshed; for righteousness, but heard a cry of distress.

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ASV

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.

KJV

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.

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Commentary

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Jerome

Commentary on Isaiah (420)

(Verse 7.) But the vineyard of the Lord of hosts is the house of Israel: and the men of Judah, his pleasant plant. That is, of God: or as the LXX translated, the beloved new plantation. Israel and Judah differ in this, that the whole people were first called Israel, and afterwards, when David reigned over the tribe of Judah, and Rehoboam the son of Solomon over the two tribes, Judah and Benjamin, those who were in Samaria, that is, the ten tribes, were called Israel; and those who reigned from the lineage of David were called Judah.

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The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

The play upon words is striking in the Hebrew, He looked for mishpat, but behold mispat ("bloodshed"); for tsedaqua, but behold tseaqua (the cry that attends anarchy, covetousness, and dissipation, Isa 5:8, 11, 12; compare the cry of the rabble by which justice was overborne in the case of Jesus Christ, Mt 27:23, 24).

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Original language & word study

17 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
כִּ֣י	ki	for	H3588 →
כֶ֜רֶם	Khe.rem	[the] vineyard of	H3754 →
יְהוָ֤ה	Yah.weh	Yahweh	H3068 →
צְבָאוֹת֙	tze.va.'Ot	of hosts	H6635 →
בֵּ֣ית	beit	[is] [the] house of	H1004 →
יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל	Yis.ra.'El	Israel	H3478 →
וְאִ֣ישׁ	ve.'Ish	and everyone of	H376 →
יְהוּדָ֔ה	ye.hu.Dah	Judah	H3063 →
נְטַ֖ע	ne.Ta'	[is] [the] plantation of	H5194 →
שַׁעֲשׁוּעָ֑יו	sha.'a.shu.'Av	delight<s> his	H8191 →
וַיְקַ֤ו	vay.Kav	and he waited	H6960 →
לְמִשְׁפָּט֙	le.mish.Pat	for justice	H4941 →
וְהִנֵּ֣ה	ve.hi.Neh	and there!	H2009 →
מִשְׂפָּ֔ח	mis.Pach	bloodshed	H4939 →
לִצְדָקָ֖ה	litz.da.Kah	for righteousness	H6666 →
וְהִנֵּ֥ה	ve.hi.Neh	and there!	H2009 →
צְעָקָֽה׃ ס	tze.'a.Kah	an outcry	H6818 →

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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
James 5:4
Look, 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.
leads to
- Leviticus 19:13
  You must not defraud your neighbor or rob him. You must not withhold until morning the wages due a hired hand.
- Jeremiah 22:13
  “Woe to him who builds his palace by unrighteousness, and his upper rooms without justice, who makes his countrymen serve without pay, and fails to pay their wages,
- Deuteronomy 24:14–15
  Do not oppress a hired hand who is poor and needy, whether he is a brother or a foreigner residing in one of your towns.
- Romans 9:29
  It is just as Isaiah foretold: “Unless the Lord of Hosts had left us descendants, we would have become like Sodom, we would have resembled Gomorrah.”
- Malachi 3:5
  “Then I will draw near to you for judgment. And I will be a swift witness against sorcerers and adulterers and perjurers, against oppressors of the widowed and fatherless, and against those who defraud…
Through
Psalms 80:15
the root Your right hand has planted, the son You have raised up for Yourself.
leads to
- John 15:1
  “I am the true vine, and My Father is the keeper of the vineyard.
- Zechariah 3:8
  Hear now, O high priest Joshua, you and your companions seated before you, who are indeed a sign. For behold, I am going to bring My servant, the Branch.
- Zechariah 6:12
  And you are to tell him that this is what the LORD of Hosts says: ‘Here is a man whose name is the Branch, and He will branch out from His place and build…

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Where the connections lead

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About Isaiah