Isaiah 5:17

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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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  • Isa 7:25 : 25 And they will send out the oxen and the sheep on all the hills which before were worked with the spade, ... fear of blackberries and thorns.
  • Zeph 2:6 : 6 And the land by the sea will be grass-land, with houses for keepers of sheep and walled places for flocks.
  • Zeph 2:14 : 14 And herds will take their rest in the middle of her, all the beasts of the valley: the pelican and the porcupine will make their living-places on the tops of its pillars; the owl will be crying in the window; the raven will be seen on the doorstep.
  • Luke 21:24 : 24 And they will be put to death with the sword, and will be taken as prisoners into all the nations; and Jerusalem will be crushed under the feet of the Gentiles, till the times of the Gentiles are complete.
  • Isa 10:16 : 16 For this cause the Lord, the Lord of armies, will make his fat become wasted; and in his inner parts a fire will be lighted like a burning flame.
  • Isa 17:2 : 2 Her towns are unpeopled for ever; there the flocks take their rest in peace, without fear.
  • Isa 32:14 : 14 For the fair houses will have no man living in them; the town which was full of noise will become a waste; the hill and the watchtower will be unpeopled for ever, a joy for the asses of the woods, a place of food for the flocks;
  • Isa 40:11 : 11 He will give food to his flock like a keeper of sheep; with his arm he will get it together, and will take up the lambs on his breast, gently guiding those which are with young.
  • Isa 65:10 : 10 And Sharon will be a grass-land for the flocks, and the valley of Achor a resting-place for the herds: for my people whose hearts have been turned back to me.
  • Jer 5:28 : 28 They have become fat and strong: they have gone far in works of evil: they give no support to the cause of the child without a father, so that they may do well; they do not see that the poor man gets his rights.
  • Lam 5:2 : 2 Our heritage is given up to men of strange lands, our houses to those who are not our countrymen.
  • Hos 8:7 : 7 For they have been planting the wind, and their fruit will be the storm; his grain has no stem, it will give no meal, and if it does, a strange nation will take it.
  • Amos 4:1-3 : 1 Give ear to this word, you cows of Bashan, who are in the hill of Samaria, by whom the poor are kept down, and those in need are crushed; who say to their lords, Get out the wine and give us drink. 2 The Lord God has taken an oath by his holy name, that the days are coming when they will take you away with hooks, and the rest of you with fish-hooks. 3 And you will go out through the broken places, every one going straight before her, and you will be sent into Harmon, says the Lord.
  • Mic 2:12 : 12 I will certainly make all of you, O Jacob, come together; I will get together the rest of Israel; I will put them together like the sheep in their circle: like a flock in their green field; they will be full of the noise of men.
  • Deut 28:33 : 33 The fruit of your land and all the work of your hands will be food for a nation which is strange to you and to your fathers; you will only be crushed down and kept under for ever:
  • Deut 32:15 : 15 But Jeshurun became fat and would not be controlled: you have become fat, you are thick and full of food: then he was untrue to the God who made him, giving no honour to the Rock of his salvation.
  • Neh 9:37 : 37 And it gives much increase to the kings whom you have put over us because of our sins: and they have power over our bodies and over our cattle at their pleasure, and we are in great trouble.
  • Ps 17:10 : 10 They are shut up in their fat: with their mouths they say words of pride.
  • Ps 17:14 : 14 With your hand, O Lord, from men, even men of the world, whose heritage is in this life, and whom you make full with your secret wealth: they are full of children; after their death their offspring take the rest of their goods.
  • Ps 73:7 : 7 Their eyes are bursting with fat; they have more than their heart's desire.
  • Ps 119:70 : 70 Their hearts are shut up with fat; but my delight is in your law.
  • Isa 1:7 : 7 Your country has become waste; your towns are burned with fire; as for your land, it is overturned before your eyes, made waste and overcome by men from strange lands.
  • Isa 7:21-22 : 21 And it will be in that day that a man will give food to a young cow and two sheep; 22 And they will give so much milk that he will be able to have butter for his food: for butter and honey will be the food of all who are still living in the land.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Ezek 34:2-3
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    2 Son of man, be a prophet against the keepers of the flock of Israel, and say to them, O keepers of the sheep! this is the word of the Lord: A curse is on the keepers of the flock of Israel who take the food for themselves! is it not right for the keepers to give the food to the sheep?

    3 You take the milk and are clothed with the wool, you put the fat beasts to death, but you give the sheep no food.

  • Ezek 34:14-20
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    77%

    14 I will give them good grass-land for their food, and their safe place will be the mountains of the high place of Israel: there they will take their rest in a good place, and on fat grass-land they will take their food on the mountains of Israel.

    15 I myself will give food to my flock, and I will give them rest, says the Lord.

    16 I will go in search of that which had gone wandering from the way, and will get back that which had been sent in flight, and will put bands on that which was broken, and give strength to that which was ill: but the fat and the strong I will give up to destruction; I will give them for their food the punishment which is theirs by right.

    17 And as for you, O my flock, says the Lord, truly, I will be judge between sheep and sheep, the he-sheep and the he-goats.

    18 Does it seem a small thing to you to have taken your food on good grass-land while the rest of your grass-land is stamped down under your feet? and that after drinking from clear waters you make the rest of the waters dirty with your feet?

    19 And as for my sheep, their food is the grass which has been stamped on by your feet, and their drink the water which has been made dirty by your feet.

    20 For this reason the Lord has said to them, Truly, I, even I, will be judge between the fat sheep and the thin sheep.

  • Zech 11:16
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    16 For see, I will put a sheep-keeper over the land, who will have no care for that which is cut off, and will not go in search of the wanderers, or make well what is broken, and he will not give food to that which is ill, but he will take for his food the flesh of the fat, and let their feet be broken.

  • Isa 65:25
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    25 The wolf and the lamb will take their food together, and the lion will make a meal of grass like the ox: but dust will be the snake's food. There will be no cause of pain or destruction in all my holy mountain, says the Lord.

  • Zech 11:4-5
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    4 This is what the Lord my God has said: Take care of the flock of death;

    5 Whose owners put them to death and have no sense of sin; and those who get a price for them say, May the Lord be praised for I have much wealth: and the keepers of the flock have no pity for them.

  • Ezek 39:18-19
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    18 The flesh of the men of war will be your food, and your drink the blood of the princes of the earth, of sheep and lambs, of he-goats, of oxen, all of them fat beasts of Bashan.

    19 You will go on feasting on the fat till you are full, and drinking the blood till you are overcome with it, of my offering which I have put to death for you.

  • Lev 7:24-25
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    24 And the fat of that which comes to a natural death, and the fat of that which is attacked by beasts, may be used for other purposes, but not in any way for food.

    25 For anyone who takes as food the fat of any beast of which men make an offering by fire to the Lord, will be cut off from his people.

  • Isa 27:10
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    10 For the strong town is without men, an unpeopled living-place; and she has become a waste land: there the young ox will take his rest, and its branches will be food for him.

  • Jer 25:34-37
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    34 Give cries of grief, you keepers of sheep; give cries for help, rolling yourselves in the dust, you chiefs of the flock: for the days of your destruction have fully come, and I will send you in all directions, and your fall will be like that of the males of the flock.

    35 There will be no way of flight for the keepers of sheep, no road for the chiefs of the flock to get away safely.

    36 A sound of the cry of the keepers of sheep, and the bitter crying of the chiefs of the flock! for the Lord has made waste their green fields.

    37 And there is no sound in the fields of peace, because of the burning wrath of the Lord.

  • Ps 37:20
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    20 But the wrongdoers will come to destruction, and the haters of the Lord will be like the fat of lambs, they will be burned up; they will go up in smoke, and never again be seen.

  • Mic 7:13-14
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    13 But the land will become a waste because of its people, as the fruit of their works.

    14 Keep your people safe with your rod, the flock of your heritage, living by themselves in the woods in the middle of Carmel: let them get their food in Bashan and Gilead as in the past.

  • Ezek 34:5
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    5 And they were wandering in every direction because there was no keeper: and they became food for all the beasts of the field.

  • Isa 11:6-7
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    6 And the wolf will be living with the lamb, and the leopard will take his rest with the young goat; and the lion will take grass for food like the ox; and the young lion will go with the young ones of the herd; and a little child will be their guide.

    7 And the cow and the bear will be friends while their young ones are sleeping together.

  • Deut 12:22
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    22 It will be your food, like the gazelle and the roe; the unclean and the clean may take of it.

  • Hos 4:16
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    16 For Israel is uncontrolled, like a cow which may not be controlled; now will the Lord give them food like a lamb in a wide place.

  • Lev 25:7
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    7 And for your cattle and the beasts on the land; all the natural increase of the land will be for food.

  • Jer 23:1-2
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    1 A curse is on the keepers who are causing the destruction and loss of the sheep of my field, says the Lord.

    2 So this is what the Lord, the God of Israel, has said against the keepers who have the care of my people: You have let my flock be broken up, driving them away and not caring for them; see, I will send on you the punishment for the evil of your doings, says the Lord.

  • Ezek 45:15
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    15 And one lamb from the flock out of every two hundred, from all the families of Israel, for a meal offering and for a burned offering and for peace-offerings, to take away their sin, says the Lord.

  • Isa 56:9
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    9 All you beasts of the field, come together for your meat, even all you beasts of the wood.

  • Isa 61:5
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    5 And men from strange countries will be your herdsmen, and those who are not Israelites will be your ploughmen and vine-keepers.

  • Ezek 34:7-8
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    7 For this cause, O keepers of the flock, give ear to the word of the Lord:

    8 By my life, says the Lord, truly, because my sheep have been taken away, and my sheep became food for all the beasts of the field, because there was no keeper, and my keepers did not go in search of the sheep, but the keepers took food for themselves and gave my sheep no food;

  • Isa 7:21-22
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    21 And it will be in that day that a man will give food to a young cow and two sheep;

    22 And they will give so much milk that he will be able to have butter for his food: for butter and honey will be the food of all who are still living in the land.

  • Jer 7:33
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    33 And the bodies of this people will be food for the birds of heaven and for the beasts of the earth; and there will be no one to send them away.

  • Isa 17:4
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    4 And it will be in that day that the glory of Jacob will be made small, and the strength of his body will become feeble.

  • Jer 50:19
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    19 And I will make Israel come back to his resting-place, and he will get his food on Carmel and Bashan, and have his desire in full measure on the hills of Ephraim and in Gilead.

  • Zech 11:9
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    9 And I said, I will not take care of you: If death comes to any, let death be its fate; if any is cut off, let it be cut off; and let the rest take one another's flesh for food.

  • Jer 5:17
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    17 They will take all the produce of your fields, which would have been food for your sons and your daughters: they will take your flocks and your herds: they will take all your vines and your fig-trees: and with the sword they will make waste your walled towns in which you put your faith.

  • Isa 5:16
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    16 But the Lord of armies is lifted up as judge, and the Holy God is seen to be holy in righteousness.

  • Deut 14:4
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    4 These are the beasts which you may have for food: the ox, the sheep, and the goat;

  • Jer 7:21
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    21 These are the words of the Lord of armies, the God of Israel: Put your burned offerings with your offerings of beasts, and take flesh for your food.

  • Ezek 34:10
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    10 This is what the Lord has said: See I am against the keepers of the flock, and I will make search and see what they have done with my sheep, and will let them be keepers of my sheep no longer; and the keepers will no longer get food for themselves; I will take my sheep out of their mouths so that they may not be food for them.

  • Rev 7:17
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    17 For the Lamb who is on the high seat will be their keeper and their guide to fountains of living water: and God will make glad their eyes for ever.