Isaiah 5:17 “Lambs will graze as in their own pastures, and strangers will feed in…”

Isaiah 5:17

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

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

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

World English Bible

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

American Standard Version

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

Geneva Bible 1599

Then shall the lambes feede after their maner, and the strangers shall eate the desolate places of the fat.

Darby Translation

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

Young's Literal Translation

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

Bible in Basic English

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

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Cross references

“shall the lambs”

Zephaniah 2:6 Isaiah 7:25 Zephaniah 2:14 Isaiah 17:2 Isaiah 32:14 Isaiah 40:11

Zephaniah 2:6 · BSB

So the seacoast will become a land of pastures, with wells for shepherds and folds for sheep.

Isaiah 7:25 · BSB

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.

Zephaniah 2:14 · BSB

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 on the threshold, for He will ex…

Isaiah 17:2 · BSB

The cities of Aroer are forsaken; they will be left to the flocks, which will lie down with no one to fear.

Isaiah 32:14 · BSB

For the palace will be forsaken, the busy city abandoned. The hill and the watchtower will become caves forever— the delight of wild donkeys and a pasture for flocks—

Isaiah 40:11 · BSB

He tends His flock like a shepherd; He gathers the lambs in His arms and carries them close to His heart. He gently leads the nursing ewes.

“the waste”

Isaiah 10:16 Deuteronomy 32:15 Psalm 17:10 Psalm 17:14 Psalm 73:7 Psalm 119:70

Isaiah 10:16 · BSB

Therefore the Lord GOD of Hosts will send a wasting disease among Assyria’s stout warriors, and under his pomp will be kindled a fire like a burning flame.

Deuteronomy 32:15 · BSB

But Jeshurun grew fat and kicked— becoming fat, bloated, and gorged. He abandoned the God who made him and scorned the Rock of his salvation.

Psalm 17:10 · BSB

They have closed their callous hearts; their mouths speak with arrogance.

Psalm 17:14 · BSB

from such men, O LORD, by Your hand— from men of the world whose portion is in this life. May You fill the bellies of Your treasured ones and satisfy their sons, so they leave their abundance to their children.

Psalm 73:7 · BSB

From their prosperity proceeds iniquity; the imaginations of their hearts run wild.

Psalm 119:70 · BSB

Their hearts are callous and insensitive, but I delight in Your law.

“strangers”

Isaiah 1:7 Deuteronomy 28:33 Nehemiah 9:37 Lamentations 5:2 Hosea 8:7 Luke 21:24

Isaiah 1:7 · BSB

Your land is desolate; your cities are burned with fire. Foreigners devour your fields before you— a desolation demolished by strangers.

Deuteronomy 28:33 · BSB

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.

Nehemiah 9:37 · BSB

Its abundant harvest goes to the kings You have set over us because of our sins. And they rule over our bodies and our livestock as they please. We are in great distress.

Lamentations 5:2 · BSB

Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers, our houses to foreigners.

Hosea 8:7 · BSB

For they sow the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind. There is no standing grain; what sprouts fails to yield flour. Even if it should produce, the foreigners would swallow it up.

Luke 21:24 · BSB

They will fall by the edge of the sword and be led captive into all the nations. And Jerusalem will be trodden down by the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled.

Also

Micah 2:12

Micah 2:12 · BSB

I will surely gather all of you, O Jacob; I will collect the remnant of Israel. I will bring them together like sheep in a pen, like a flock in the midst of its pasture— a noisy throng.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

16But the LORD of Hosts will be exalted by His justice, and the holy God will show Himself holy in righteousness.

18Woe to those who draw iniquity with cords of deceit and pull sin along with cart ropes,

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