Isaiah 5:7

And he looked for judgment - The paronomasia, or play on the words, in this place, is very remarkable; mishpat , mishpach , tsedakah , tseakah . There are many examples of it in the other prophets, but Isaiah seems peculiarly fond of it. See Isaiah 13:6 , Isaiah 24:17 , Isaiah 32:7 , Isaiah 28:1 , Isaiah 57:6 , Isaiah 61:3 , Isaiah 65:11 , Isaiah 65:12 . Rabbi David Kimchi has noticed the paronomasia here: he expected משפט mishpat , judgment, but behold משפח mishpach , oppression; he expected צדקה tsedakah , righteousness, but behold צעקה tseakah , a cry. The rabbins esteem it a great beauty; their term for it is הלשון צחות tsachoth haltashon , elegance of language.

Oppression "tyranny" - משפח mishpach , from שפח shaphach , servum fecit , Arab. Houbigant: שפחה shiphchah is serva , a handmaid or female slave. משפח mispach , eighteen MSS.