Isaiah 5:17 Parallel Translations

Then lambs will graze as if they were in their own pasture, and foreigners will eat among the ruins of the rich.(GOD'S WORD®)

KJV:

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

ASV:

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

BBE:

Then the lambs will get food as in their grass-lands, and the fat cattle will be feasting in the waste places.

DBY:

And the lambs shall feed as on their pasture, and the waste places of the fat ones shall strangers eat.

ERV:

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

JPS:

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

WBS:

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

WEB:

Then the lambs will graze as in their pasture, and strangers will eat the ruins of the rich.

YLT:

And fed have lambs according to their leading, And waste places of the fat ones Do sojourners consume.

Isaiah 5:17 Cross References

XREF:

Isaiah 7:25 As for all the hills which used to be cultivated with the hoe, you will not go there for fear of briars and thorns; but they will become a place for pasturing oxen and for sheep to trample.

Micah 2:12 "I will surely assemble all of you, Jacob, I will surely gather the remnant of Israel. I will put them together like sheep in the fold; Like a flock in the midst of its pasture They will be noisy with men.

Zephaniah 2:6 So the seacoast will be pastures, With caves for shepherds and folds for flocks. (NASB ©1995)

Commentaries and Concordances

GSB:

5:17 Then shall {x} the lambs feed after their manner, and the waste places of the fat ones shall strangers eat.
(x) God comforts the poor lambs of his Church, who had been strangers in other countries, promising that they would dwell in these places again, of which they had been deprived by the fat and cruel tyrants.

WES:

5:17 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, Mic 2:12, the only place of scripture, except this, in which this word is found. Waste places - The lands left by their owners. Fat ones - Of the rich and great men. Strangers - The poor Israelites, who were left to be vine - dressers and husbandmen, 2Kings 25:12, who are called strangers, because they were so, in reference to that hand, not being the proper owners of it.

MHC:

5:8-23 Here is a woe to those who set their hearts on the wealth of the world. Not that it is sinful for those who have a house and a field to purchase another; but the fault is, that they never know when they have enough. Covetousness is idolatry; and while many envy the prosperous, wretched man, the Lord denounces awful woes upon him. How applicable to many among us! God has many ways to empty the most populous cities. Those who set their hearts upon the world, will justly be disappointed. Here is woe to those who dote upon the pleasures and the delights of sense. The use of music is lawful; but when it draws away the heart from God, then it becomes a sin to us. God's judgments have seized them, but they will not disturb themselves in their pleasures. The judgments are declared. Let a man be ever so high, death will bring him low; ever so mean, death will bring him lower. The fruit of these judgments shall be, that God will be glorified as a God of power. Also, as a God that is holy; he shall be owned and declared to be so, in the righteous punishment of proud men. Those are in a woful condition who set up sin, and who exert themselves to gratify their base lusts. They are daring in sin, and walk after their own lusts; it is in scorn that they call God the Holy One of Israel. They confound and overthrow distinctions between good and evil. They prefer their own reasonings to Divine revelations; their own devices to the counsels and commands of God. They deem it prudent and politic to continue profitable sins, and to neglect self-denying duties. Also, how light soever men make of drunkenness, it is a sin which lays open to the wrath and curse of God. Their judges perverted justice. Every sin needs some other to conceal it.

CONC:

Cattle Consume Eat Fat Fatlings Feasting Fed Feed Grass-lands Graze Kids Lambs Leading Manner Ones Pasture Places Rich Ruins Sojourners Strangers Wanderers Waste Wealthy

Cattle Consume Eat Fat Fatlings Feasting Fed Feed Food Grass-Lands Graze Kids Lambs Manner Ones Pasture Places Rich Ruins Sheep Sojourners Strangers Wanderers Waste Wealthy

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