Isa 5:7, Jer 2:26, 5:11, 9:26, Eze 18:31, Mat 3:9-10 | TSK | STEP | the vineyard. his pleasant plant. Heb. plant of his pleasures. he looked. but.The paronomasia, or play of words, is very remarkable here: he looked for {mishpat,} "judgment," but behold {mispach,} "oppression;" for {tzedakah,} "justice," but behold {tzëdkah,} "a cry." oppression. Heb. a scab. a cry.

Isaiah 5:7

the vineyard.

his pleasant plant. Heb. plant of his pleasures.

62:5; Ps 147:11; 149:4; So 7:6; Zep 3:17

he looked.

2; 58:6-8; Ex 22:22-27; Mic 6:8; Zec 7:9-14; Mt 3:8-10; 23:23

but.The paronomasia, or play of words, is very remarkable here: he looked for {mishpat,} "judgment," but behold {mispach,} "oppression;" for {tzedakah,} "justice," but behold {tzëdkah,} "a cry."

oppression. Heb. a scab.

1:6; 3:17

a cry.

Ge 4:10; Ex 2:23,24; 3:7; 22:21-24,27; De 15:9; Ne 5:1-5

Job 31:38,39; 34:28; Pr 21:13; Lu 18:7; Jas 5:4

Jeremiah 2:26

the thief.

36; 3:24,25; Pr 6:30,31; Isa 1:29; Ro 6:21

their kings.

32:32; Ezr 9:7; Ne 9:32-34; Da 9:6-8

Jeremiah 5:11

the house.

3:6-11,20; Isa 48:8; Ho 5:7; 6:7

Jeremiah 9:26

Egypt.

25:9-26; 27:3-7; 46:1-52:34; Isa 13:1-24:23; Eze 24:1-32:32

Am 1:1-2:16; Zep 1:1-2:15

Judah.

Isa 19:24,25

in the utmost corners. Heb. cut off into corners; or, havingthe corners of their hair polled. Dr. Durell and others justly consider the marginal reading as far preferable; as being descriptive of the mode in which the Arabians cut their hair and beard. (See Notes on Le 21:5.)

25:23; 49:32

uncircumcised in.

4:4; Le 26:41; De 30:6; Eze 44:7,9; Ac 7:51; Ro 2:28,29