“Therefore my people go into captivity for lack of knowledge. Their honorable men are famished, and their multitudes are parched with thirst.”

Reading this verse in context

This page shows one verse on its own, which is rarely how it was written. Isaiah 5 contains 30 verses, and the sentences either side usually decide what this one means. Read the whole chapter before you quote it.

Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.