Isaiah Chapter 5 verse 17 Holy Bible
Then shall the lambs feed as in their pasture, and the waste places of the fat ones shall wanderers eat.
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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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And the lambs shall feed as on their pasture, and the waste places of the fat ones shall strangers eat.
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Then shall the lambs feed after their manner, and the waste places of the fat ones shall strangers eat.
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Then the lambs will graze as in their pasture, And strangers will eat the ruins of the rich.
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And fed have lambs according to their leading, And waste places of the fat ones Do sojourners consume.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 17. Then shall the lambs feed. Dr. Kay takes the "lambs" to be the remnant of Israel that survived the judgment, who will feed freely, cared for by the good Shepherd; but the parallelism so generally affected by Isaiah seems to require a meaning more consonant with the later clause of the verse. Most commentators, therefore, expound the passage literally, "Then shall lambs feed [on the desolated estates of the covetous]" (see vers. 8-10). After their manner; or, after their own guidance; i.e. at their pleasure, as they list (so Lowth and Rosenmüller). And the waste places of the fat ones shall strangers eat. Goim, i.e. nomad tribes, shall consume the produce of the wasted fields once possessed by the Hebrew grandees. Ewald proposes to make the verse immediately follow ver. 10; but this is not necessary. The occupation of their lands by wandering tribes, Arabs and others, was a part of the punishment that fell on all the nobles, not on those only who accumulated large estates.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(17) Then shall the lambs feed after their manner.--Better, feed even as on their pasture. The meaning is clear enough. The lands that have been gained by oppression shall, in the day of retribution, become common pasture ground instead of being reserved for the parks and gardens of the rich; and strangers--i.e., invaders, Philistines, Assyrians, or nomadic tribes--shall devour the produce (Isaiah 1:7). Possibly, however, the "lambs" may stand for the poor and meek, as in contrast with the "fat ones" of the earth. The LXX. version follows a different reading in the second clause, and gives "kids" instead of "strangers."
