Isaiah 5:17

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Lambs will graze as if in their pastures, amid the ruins the rich sojourners will graze.

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  • Isa 7:25 : 25 They will stay away from all the hills that were cultivated, for fear of the thorns and briers. Cattle will graze there and sheep will trample on them.
  • Zeph 2:6 : 6 The seacoast will be used as pasture lands by the shepherds and as pens for their flocks.
  • Zeph 2:14 : 14 Flocks and herds will lie down in the middle of it, as well as every kind of wild animal. Owls will sleep in the tops of its support pillars; they will hoot through the windows. Rubble will cover the thresholds; even the cedar work will be exposed to the elements.
  • Luke 21:24 : 24 They will fall by the edge of the sword and be led away as captives among all nations. Jerusalem will be trampled down by the Gentiles until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled.
  • Isa 10:16 : 16 For this reason the Sovereign LORD of Heaven’s Armies, will make his healthy ones emaciated. His majestic glory will go up in smoke.
  • Isa 17:2 : 2 The cities of Aroer are abandoned. They will be used for herds, which will lie down there in peace.
  • Isa 32:14 : 14 For the fortress is neglected; the once-crowded city is abandoned. Hill and watchtower are permanently uninhabited. Wild donkeys love to go there, and flocks graze there.
  • Isa 40:11 : 11 Like a shepherd he tends his flock; he gathers up the lambs with his arm; he carries them close to his heart; he leads the ewes along.
  • Isa 65:10 : 10 Sharon will become a pasture for sheep, and the Valley of Achor a place where cattle graze; they will belong to my people, who seek me.
  • Jer 5:28 : 28 That is how they have grown fat and sleek. There is no limit to the evil things they do. They do not plead the cause of the fatherless in such a way as to win it. They do not defend the rights of the poor.
  • Lam 5:2 : 2 Our inheritance is turned over to strangers; foreigners now occupy our homes.
  • Hos 8:7 : 7 The Fertility Cultists Will Become Infertile They sow the wind, and so they will reap the whirlwind! The stalk does not have any standing grain; it will not produce any flour. Even if it were to yield grain, foreigners would swallow it all up.
  • Amos 4:1-3 : 1 Listen to this message, you cows of Bashan who live on Mount Samaria! You oppress the poor; you crush the needy. You say to your husbands,“Bring us more to drink!” 2 The Sovereign LORD confirms this oath by his own holy character:“Certainly the time is approaching when you will be carried away in baskets, every last one of you in fishermen’s pots. 3 Each of you will go straight through the gaps in the walls; you will be thrown out toward Harmon.” The LORD is speaking!
  • Mic 2:12 : 12 The Lord Will Restore His People I will certainly gather all of you, O Jacob, I will certainly assemble those Israelites who remain. I will bring them together like sheep in a fold, like a flock in the middle of a pasture; they will be so numerous that they will make a lot of noise.
  • Deut 28:33 : 33 As for the produce of your land and all your labor, a people you do not know will consume it, and you will be nothing but oppressed and crushed for the rest of your lives.
  • Deut 32:15 : 15 Israel’s Rebellion But Jeshurun became fat and kicked, you got fat, thick, and stuffed! Then he deserted the God who made him, and treated the Rock who saved him with contempt.
  • Neh 9:37 : 37 Its abundant produce goes to the kings you have placed over us due to our sins. They rule over our bodies and our livestock as they see fit, and we are in great distress!
  • Ps 17:10 : 10 They are calloused; they speak arrogantly.
  • Ps 17:14 : 14 LORD, use your power to deliver me from these murderers, from the murderers of this world! They enjoy prosperity; you overwhelm them with the riches they desire. They have many children, and leave their wealth to their offspring.
  • Ps 73:7 : 7 Their prosperity causes them to do wrong; their thoughts are sinful.
  • Ps 119:70 : 70 Their hearts are calloused, but I find delight in your law.
  • Isa 1:7 : 7 Your land is devastated, your cities burned with fire. Right before your eyes your crops are being destroyed by foreign invaders. They leave behind devastation and destruction.
  • Isa 7:21-22 : 21 At that time a man will keep alive a young cow from the herd and a couple of goats. 22 From the abundance of milk they produce, he will have sour milk for his meals. Indeed, everyone left in the heart of the land will eat sour milk and honey.

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  • Ezek 34:2-3
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    2“Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel; prophesy, and say to them– to the shepherds:‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says: Woe to the shepherds of Israel who have been feeding themselves! Should not shepherds feed the flock?

    3You eat the fat, you clothe yourselves with the wool, you slaughter the choice animals, but you do not feed the sheep!

  • Ezek 34:14-20
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    14In a good pasture I will feed them; the mountain heights of Israel will be their pasture. There they will lie down in a lush pasture, and they will feed on rich grass on the mountains of Israel.

    15I myself will feed my sheep and I myself will make them lie down, declares the Sovereign LORD.

    16I will seek the lost and bring back the strays; I will bandage the injured and strengthen the sick, but the fat and the strong I will destroy. I will feed them– with judgment!

    17“‘As for you, my sheep, this is what the Sovereign LORD says: Look, I am about to judge between one sheep and another, between rams and goats.

    18Is it not enough for you to feed on the good pasture, that you must trample the rest of your pastures with your feet? When you drink clean water, must you muddy the rest of the water by trampling it with your feet?

    19As for my sheep, they must eat what you trampled with your feet, and drink what you have muddied with your feet!

    20“‘Therefore, this is what the Sovereign LORD says to them: Look, I myself will judge between the fat sheep and the lean sheep.

  • Zech 11:16
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    16Indeed, I am about to raise up a shepherd in the land who will not take heed to the sheep headed to slaughter, will not seek the scattered, and will not heal the injured. Moreover, he will not nourish the one that is healthy but instead will eat the meat of the fat sheep and tear off their hooves.

  • Isa 65:25
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    25A wolf and a lamb will graze together; a lion, like an ox, will eat straw, and a snake’s food will be dirt. They will no longer injure or destroy on my entire royal mountain,” says the LORD.

  • Zech 11:4-5
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    4The LORD my God says this:“Shepherd the flock set aside for slaughter.

    5Those who buy them slaughter them and are not held guilty; those who sell them say,‘Blessed be the LORD, for I am rich.’ Their own shepherds have no compassion for them.

  • Ezek 39:18-19
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    18You will eat the flesh of warriors and drink the blood of the princes of the earth– the rams, lambs, goats, and bulls, all of them fattened animals of Bashan.

    19You will eat fat until you are full, and drink blood until you are drunk, at my slaughter which I have made for you.

  • Lev 7:24-25
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    24Moreover, the fat of an animal that has died of natural causes and the fat of an animal torn by beasts may be used for any other purpose, but you must certainly never eat it.

    25If anyone eats fat from the animal from which he presents a gift to the LORD, that person will be cut off from his people.

  • Isa 27:10
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    10For the fortified city is left alone; it is a deserted settlement and abandoned like the wilderness. Calves graze there; they lie down there and eat its branches bare.

  • Jer 25:34-37
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    34Wail and cry out in anguish, you rulers! Roll in the dust, you who shepherd flocks of people! The time for you to be slaughtered has come. You will lie scattered and fallen like broken pieces of fine pottery.

    35The leaders will not be able to run away and hide. The shepherds of the flocks will not be able to escape.

    36Listen to the cries of anguish of the leaders. Listen to the wails of the shepherds of the flocks. They are wailing because the LORD is about to destroy their lands.

    37Their peaceful dwelling places will be laid waste by the fierce anger of the LORD.

  • Ps 37:20
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    20But evil men will die; the LORD’s enemies will be incinerated– they will go up in smoke.

  • Mic 7:13-14
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    13The earth will become desolate because of what its inhabitants have done.

    14Shepherd your people with your rod, the flock that belongs to you, the one that lives alone in a thicket, in the midst of a pastureland. Allow them to graze in Bashan and Gilead, as they did in the old days.

  • Ezek 34:5
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    5They were scattered because they had no shepherd, and they became food for every wild beast.

  • Isa 11:6-7
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    6A wolf will reside with a lamb, and a leopard will lie down with a young goat; an ox and a young lion will graze together, as a small child leads them along.

    7A cow and a bear will graze together, their young will lie down together. A lion, like an ox, will eat straw.

  • Deut 12:22
    74%

    22Like you eat the gazelle or ibex, so you may eat these; the ritually impure and pure alike may eat them.

  • Hos 4:16
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    16Israel has rebelled like a stubborn heifer! Soon the LORD will put them out to pasture like a lamb in a broad field!

  • Lev 25:7
    73%

    7your cattle, and the wild animals that are in your land– all its produce will be for you to eat.

  • Jer 23:1-2
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    1New Leaders over a Regathered Remnant The LORD says,“The leaders of my people are sure to be judged. They were supposed to watch over my people like shepherds watch over their sheep. But they are causing my people to be destroyed and scattered.

    2So the LORD God of Israel has this to say about the leaders who are ruling over his people:“You have caused my people to be dispersed and driven into exile. You have not taken care of them. So I will punish you for the evil that you have done. I, the LORD, affirm it!

  • Ezek 45:15
    73%

    15and one sheep from each flock of two hundred, from the watered places of Israel, for a grain offering, burnt offering, and peace offering, to make atonement for them, declares the Sovereign LORD.

  • Isa 56:9
    73%

    9The Lord Denounces Israel’s Paganism All you wild animals in the fields, come and devour, all you wild animals in the forest!

  • Isa 61:5
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    5“Foreigners will take care of your sheep; foreigners will work in your fields and vineyards.

  • Ezek 34:7-8
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    7“‘Therefore, you shepherds, listen to the LORD’s message:

    8As surely as I live, declares the Sovereign LORD, my sheep have become prey and have become food for all the wild beasts. There was no shepherd, and my shepherds did not search for my flock, but fed themselves and did not feed my sheep,

  • Isa 7:21-22
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    21At that time a man will keep alive a young cow from the herd and a couple of goats.

    22From the abundance of milk they produce, he will have sour milk for his meals. Indeed, everyone left in the heart of the land will eat sour milk and honey.

  • Jer 7:33
    73%

    33Then the dead bodies of these people will be left on the ground for the birds and wild animals to eat. There will not be any survivors to scare them away.

  • Isa 17:4
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    4“At that time Jacob’s splendor will be greatly diminished, and he will become skin and bones.

  • Jer 50:19
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    19But I will restore the flock of Israel to their own pasture. They will graze on Mount Carmel and the land of Bashan. They will eat until they are full on the hills of Ephraim and the land of Gilead.

  • Zech 11:9
    72%

    9I then said,“I will not shepherd you. What is to die, let it die, and what is to be eradicated, let it be eradicated. As for those who survive, let them eat each other’s flesh!”

  • Jer 5:17
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    17They will eat up your crops and your food. They will kill off your sons and your daughters. They will eat up your sheep and your cattle. They will destroy your vines and your fig trees. Their weapons will batter down the fortified cities you trust in.

  • Isa 5:16
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    16The LORD of Heaven’s Armies will be exalted when he punishes, the holy God’s authority will be recognized when he judges.

  • Deut 14:4
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    4These are the animals you may eat: the ox, the sheep, the goat,

  • Jer 7:21
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    21“The LORD of Heaven’s Armies, the God of Israel says to the people of Judah:‘You might as well go ahead and add the meat of your burnt offerings to that of the other sacrifices and eat it, too!

  • Ezek 34:10
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    10This is what the Sovereign LORD says: Look, I am against the shepherds, and I will demand my sheep from their hand. I will no longer let them be shepherds; the shepherds will not feed themselves anymore. I will rescue my sheep from their mouth, so that they will no longer be food for them.

  • Rev 7:17
    72%

    17because the Lamb in the middle of the throne will shepherd them and lead them to springs of living water, and God will wipe away every tear from their eyes.”