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Isaiah Chapter 5

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In this chapter the king orders that the land be given to the rich while the poor are left with nothing. The poor are told to sell their possessions and give them to the rich, and the rich are to give them to the poor. The passage warns of the injustice of such a system.

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(1) Now will I sing to my wellbeloved a song of my beloved touching his vineyard. My wellbeloved hath a vineyard in a very fruitful hill:
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Deuteronomy 31:19Deuteronomy 31:20Deuteronomy 31:21Deuteronomy 31:22Judges 5:1Judges 5:2Judges 5:3Judges 5:4Judges 5:5Judges 5:6Judges 5:7Judges 5:8

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I Kings 21:6Exodus 22:5Leviticus 19:10Deuteronomy 22:9I Kings 21:2Song of Solomon 8:11

(2) And 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.
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Exodus 33:16Numbers 23:9Deuteronomy 32:8Deuteronomy 32:9Psalms 44:1Psalms 44:2Psalms 44:3Romans 9:4Jeremiah 2:21Judges 16:4Isaiah 1:8Micah 4:8

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Isaiah 5:4Deuteronomy 32:32I Chronicles 29:2II Kings 4:39Matthew 21:33I Kings 7:10

(3) And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem, and men of Judah, judge, I pray you, betwixt me and my vineyard.
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Psalms 50:4Psalms 50:5Psalms 50:6Psalms 51:4Jeremiah 2:4Jeremiah 2:5Micah 6:2Micah 6:3Matthew 21:40Matthew 21:41Mark 12:9Mark 12:10

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Joshua 17:11Judges 1:27Judges 1:33I Kings 21:6

(4) What could have been done more to my vineyard, that I have not done in it? wherefore, when I looked that it should bring forth grapes, brought it forth wild grapes?
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Isaiah 1:5II Chronicles 36:14II Chronicles 36:15II Chronicles 36:16Jeremiah 2:30Jeremiah 2:31Jeremiah 6:29Jeremiah 6:30Ezekiel 24:13Matthew 23:37Acts 7:51Acts 7:52

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Isaiah 5:2Numbers 6:3Deuteronomy 32:32Deuteronomy 23:24Deuteronomy 24:21Deuteronomy 28:30

(5) And now go to; I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard: I will take away the hedge thereof, and it shall be eaten up; and break down the wall thereof, and it shall be trodden down:
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Genesis 11:4Genesis 11:7Isaiah 27:10Isaiah 27:11Leviticus 26:31Leviticus 26:32Leviticus 26:33Leviticus 26:34Leviticus 26:35Deuteronomy 28:49Deuteronomy 28:50Deuteronomy 28:51

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Exodus 22:5Joel 1:4I Kings 21:6Jeremiah 51:22Jeremiah 51:23II Chronicles 26:6

(6) And I will lay it waste: it shall not be pruned, nor digged; but there shall come up briers and thorns: I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it.
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Isaiah 5:9Isaiah 5:10Isaiah 6:11Isaiah 6:12Isaiah 24:1Isaiah 24:2Isaiah 24:3Isaiah 24:12Isaiah 32:13Isaiah 32:14Leviticus 26:33Leviticus 26:34

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Joel 2:23Zechariah 10:1Deuteronomy 11:14Amos 4:7Deuteronomy 32:2Job 29:23

(7) 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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Psalms 80:8Psalms 80:9Psalms 80:10Psalms 80:11Psalms 80:15Jeremiah 12:10Isaiah 62:5Psalms 147:11Psalms 149:4Song of Solomon 7:6Zephaniah 3:17Isaiah 5:2

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(8) Woe unto them that join house to house, that lay field to field, till there be no place, that they may be placed alone in the midst of the earth!
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Jeremiah 22:13Jeremiah 22:14Jeremiah 22:15Jeremiah 22:16Jeremiah 22:17Micah 2:2Habakkuk 2:9Habakkuk 2:10Habakkuk 2:11Habakkuk 2:12Matthew 23:14Luke 12:16

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Genesis 23:17Exodus 9:25Exodus 22:5Genesis 2:5Daniel 4:23Genesis 49:30

(9) In mine ears said the LORD of hosts, Of a truth many houses shall be desolate, even great and fair, without inhabitant.
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Isaiah 22:14Amos 3:7Isaiah 5:6Isaiah 27:10II Chronicles 36:21Amos 5:11Amos 6:11Matthew 22:7Matthew 23:38

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(10) Yea, ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and the seed of an homer shall yield an ephah.
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Leviticus 27:16Ezekiel 45:10Ezekiel 45:11Joel 1:17Haggai 1:9Haggai 1:10Haggai 1:11

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Ezekiel 45:11Ezekiel 45:14Leviticus 26:4Leviticus 26:20Ezekiel 34:27Hosea 8:7

(11) Woe unto them that rise up early in the morning, that they may follow strong drink; that continue until night, till wine inflame them!
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Isaiah 5:22Isaiah 28:1Proverbs 23:29Proverbs 23:30Ecclesiastes 10:16Ecclesiastes 10:17Hosea 7:5Hosea 7:6Habakkuk 2:15Luke 21:34Romans 13:13I Corinthians 6:10

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I Samuel 29:10Isaiah 28:7Genesis 19:2Numbers 6:3Mark 2:22Numbers 9:21

(12) And the harp, and the viol, the tabret, and pipe, and wine, are in their feasts: but they regard not the work of the LORD, neither consider the operation of his hands.
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Isaiah 22:13Genesis 31:27Job 21:11Job 21:12Job 21:13Job 21:14Daniel 5:1Daniel 5:2Daniel 5:3Daniel 5:4Daniel 5:23Amos 6:4

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(13) Therefore my people are gone into captivity, because they have no knowledge: and their honourable men are famished, and their multitude dried up with thirst.
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Isaiah 1:7Isaiah 42:22Isaiah 42:23Isaiah 42:24Isaiah 42:25II Kings 17:6II Chronicles 28:5II Chronicles 28:6II Chronicles 28:7II Chronicles 28:8Isaiah 1:3Isaiah 27:11

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Ezekiel 16:53

(14) Therefore hell hath enlarged herself, and opened her mouth without measure: and their glory, and their multitude, and their pomp, and he that rejoiceth, shall descend into it.
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Isaiah 14:9Isaiah 30:33Psalms 49:14Proverbs 27:20Ezekiel 32:18Ezekiel 32:19Ezekiel 32:20Ezekiel 32:21Ezekiel 32:22Ezekiel 32:23Ezekiel 32:24Ezekiel 32:25

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(15) And the mean man shall be brought down, and the mighty man shall be humbled, and the eyes of the lofty shall be humbled:
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Isaiah 2:9Isaiah 2:11Isaiah 2:17Isaiah 9:14Isaiah 9:15Isaiah 9:16Isaiah 9:17Isaiah 24:2Isaiah 24:3Isaiah 24:4Psalms 62:9Jeremiah 5:4

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II Chronicles 12:7II Chronicles 33:23Isaiah 2:11

(16) But the LORD of hosts shall be exalted in judgment, and God that is holy shall be sanctified in righteousness.
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Isaiah 12:4I Chronicles 29:11Psalms 9:16Psalms 21:13Psalms 46:10Ezekiel 28:22Ezekiel 38:23Romans 2:5Revelation 19:1Revelation 19:2Revelation 19:3Revelation 19:4

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(17) Then shall the lambs feed after their manner, and the waste places of the fat ones shall strangers eat.
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Isaiah 7:21Isaiah 7:22Isaiah 7:25Isaiah 17:2Isaiah 32:14Isaiah 40:11Isaiah 65:10Zephaniah 2:6Zephaniah 2:14Isaiah 10:16Deuteronomy 32:15Psalms 17:10

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(18) Woe unto them that draw iniquity with cords of vanity, and sin as it were with a cart rope:
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Isaiah 28:15Judges 17:5Judges 17:13II Samuel 16:20II Samuel 16:21II Samuel 16:22II Samuel 16:23Psalms 10:11Psalms 14:1Psalms 36:2Psalms 94:5Psalms 94:6

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Revelation 8:13Ecclesiastes 1:2

(19) That say, Let him make speed, and hasten his work, that we may see it: and let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel draw nigh and come, that we may know it!
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Isaiah 66:5Jeremiah 5:12Jeremiah 5:13Jeremiah 17:15Ezekiel 12:22Ezekiel 12:27Amos 5:18Amos 5:19II Peter 3:3II Peter 3:4Isaiah 30:11Jeremiah 23:18

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(20) Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!
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Proverbs 17:15Malachi 2:17Malachi 3:15Matthew 6:23Matthew 15:3Matthew 15:4Matthew 15:5Matthew 15:6Matthew 23:16Matthew 23:17Matthew 23:18Matthew 23:19

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Job 10:22Matthew 6:23John 12:35Isaiah 30:26Genesis 1:4Psalms 139:12

(21) Woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight!
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Job 11:12Proverbs 3:7Proverbs 26:12Proverbs 26:16John 9:41Romans 1:22Romans 11:25Romans 12:16I Corinthians 3:18I Corinthians 3:19I Corinthians 3:20

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(22) Woe unto them that are mighty to drink wine, and men of strength to mingle strong drink:
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Isaiah 5:11Isaiah 28:1Isaiah 28:2Isaiah 28:3Isaiah 28:7Proverbs 23:19Proverbs 23:20Habakkuk 2:15

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(23) Which justify the wicked for reward, and take away the righteousness of the righteous from him!
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Exodus 23:6Exodus 23:7Exodus 23:8Exodus 23:9Proverbs 17:15Proverbs 24:24Proverbs 31:4Proverbs 31:5Isaiah 1:23Deuteronomy 16:19II Chronicles 19:7Proverbs 17:23

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(24) Therefore as the fire devoureth the stubble, and the flame consumeth the chaff, so their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust: because they have cast away the law of the LORD of hosts, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.
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Isaiah 47:14Exodus 15:7Joel 2:5Nahum 1:10Malachi 4:1I Corinthians 3:12I Corinthians 3:13Matthew 3:12Luke 3:17Isaiah 9:14Isaiah 9:15Isaiah 9:16

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(25) Therefore is the anger of the LORD kindled against his people, and he hath stretched forth his hand against them, and hath smitten them: and the hills did tremble, and their carcases were torn in the midst of the streets. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.
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Deuteronomy 31:17Deuteronomy 32:19Deuteronomy 32:20Deuteronomy 32:21Deuteronomy 32:22II Kings 13:3II Kings 22:13II Kings 22:14II Kings 22:15II Kings 22:16II Kings 22:17II Chronicles 36:16

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(26) And he will lift up an ensign to the nations from far, and will hiss unto them from the end of the earth: and, behold, they shall come with speed swiftly:
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Isaiah 11:12Isaiah 18:3Jeremiah 51:27Isaiah 7:18Zechariah 10:8Isaiah 39:3Deuteronomy 28:49Psalms 72:8Jeremiah 5:15Malachi 1:11Isaiah 30:16Jeremiah 4:13

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(27) None shall be weary nor stumble among them; none shall slumber nor sleep; neither shall the girdle of their loins be loosed, nor the latchet of their shoes be broken:
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(28) Whose arrows are sharp, and all their bows bent, their horses' hoofs shall be counted like flint, and their wheels like a whirlwind:
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Psalms 45:5Psalms 120:4Jeremiah 5:16Ezekiel 21:9Ezekiel 21:10Ezekiel 21:11Judges 5:22Jeremiah 47:3Micah 4:13Nahum 2:3Nahum 2:4Nahum 3:2

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(29) Their roaring shall be like a lion, they shall roar like young lions: yea, they shall roar, and lay hold of the prey, and shall carry it away safe, and none shall deliver it.
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Isaiah 31:4Genesis 49:9Numbers 24:9Jeremiah 4:7Jeremiah 49:19Jeremiah 50:17Hosea 11:10Amos 3:8Zechariah 11:3Isaiah 42:22Isaiah 49:24Isaiah 49:25

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(30) And in that day they shall roar against them like the roaring of the sea: and if one look unto the land, behold darkness and sorrow, and the light is darkened in the heavens thereof.
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Psalms 93:3Psalms 93:4Jeremiah 6:23Jeremiah 50:42Luke 21:25Isaiah 8:22Isaiah 13:10Exodus 10:21Exodus 10:22Exodus 10:23Jeremiah 4:23Jeremiah 4:24

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