For the vineyard of the Lord of hosts is the house of Israel: and the man of Juda, his pleasant plant: and I looked that he should do judgment, and behold iniquity: and do justice, and behold a cry.

the vineyard

Psalm 80:8-11,15 Thou hast brought a vineyard out of Egypt: thou hast cast out the Gentiles and planted it. . . .

Jeremiah 12:10 Many pastors have destroyed my vineyard, they have trodden my portion under foot: they have changed my delightful portion into a desolate wilderness.

his pleasant plant.

Isaiah 62:5 For the young man shall dwell with the virgin, and thy children shall dwell in thee. And the bridegroom shall rejoice over the bride, and thy God shall rejoice over thee.

Psalm 147:11 The Lord taketh pleasure in them that fear him: and in them that hope in his mercy.

Psalm 149:4 For the Lord is well pleased with his people: and he will exalt the meek unto salvation.

Songs 7:6 How beautiful art thou, and how comely, my dearest, in delights!

Zephaniah 3:17 The Lord thy God in the midst of thee is mighty, he will save: he will rejoice over thee with gladness, he will be silent in his love, he will be joyful over thee in praise.

he looked

Isaiah 5:2 And he fenced it in, and picked the stones out of it, and planted it with the choicest vines, and built a tower in the midst thereof, and set up a winepress therein: and he looked that it should bring forth grapes, and it brought forth wild grapes.

Isaiah 58:6-8 Is not this rather the fast that I have chosen? loose the bands of wickedness, undo the bundles that oppress, let them that are broken go free, and break asunder every burden. . . .

Exodus 22:22-27 You shall not hurt a widow or an orphan. . . .

Micah 6:8 I will shew thee, O man, what is good, and what the Lord requireth of thee: Verily to do judgment, and to love mercy, and to walk solicitous with thy God.

Zechariah 7:9-14 Thus saith the Lord of hosts, saying: Judge ye true judgment, and shew ye mercy and compassion every man to his brother. . . .

Matthew 3:8-10 Bring forth therefore fruit worthy of penance. . . .

Matthew 23:23 Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites; because you tithe mint and anise and cummin and have left the weightier things of the law: judgment and mercy and faith. These things you ought to have done and not to leave those undone.

John 15:2 Every branch in me that beareth not fruit, he will take away: and every one that beareth fruit, he will purge it, that it may bring forth more fruit.

1 Corinthians 6:8-11 But you do wrong and defraud: and that to your brethren. . . .

1 John 3:7,8 Little children, let no man deceive you. He that doth justice is just, even as he is just. . . .

but.

oppression.

Isaiah 1:6 From the sole of the foot unto the top of the head, there is no soundness therein: wounds and bruises and swelling sores: they are not bound up, nor dressed, nor fomented with oil.

Isaiah 3:17 The Lord will make bald the crown of the head of the daughters of Sion, and the Lord will discover their hair.

a cry

Genesis 4:10 And he said to him: What hast thou done? the voice of thy brother's blood crieth to me from the earth.

Exodus 2:23,24 Now after a long time the king of Egypt died: and the children of Israel groaning, cried out because of the works: and their cry went up unto God from the works. . . .

Exodus 3:7 And the Lord said to him: I have seen the affliction of my people in Egypt, and I have heard their cry because of the rigour of them that are over the works;

Exodus 22:21-24,27 Thou shalt not molest a stranger, nor afflict him: for yourselves also were strangers in the land of Egypt. . . .

Deuteronomy 15:9 Beware lest perhaps a wicked thought steal in upon thee, and thou say in thy heart: The seventh year of remission draweth nigh; and thou turn away thy eyes from thy poor brother, denying to lend him that which he asketh: lest he cry against thee to the Lord, and it become a sin unto thee.

Nehemiah 5:1-5 Now there was a great cry of the people, and of their wives against their brethren the Jews. . . .

Job 31:38,39 If my land cry against me, and with it the furrows thereof mourn: . . .

Job 34:28 So that they caused the cry of the needy to come to him, and he heard the voice of the poor.

Proverbs 21:13 He that stoppeth his ear against the cry of the poor, shall also cry himself, and shall not be heard.

Luke 18:7 And will not God revenge his elect who cry to him day and night? And will he have patience in their regard?

James 5:4 Behold the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which by fraud has been kept back by you, crieth: and the cry of them hath entered into the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth.