Isaiah Chapter 5 Back Next{5:1} Let me sing for my well beloved a song of my beloved about his vineyard. My beloved had a vineyard on a very fruitful
hill.
{5:2} He dug it up, gathered out its stones, planted it with the choicest vine, built a tower in its midst, and also cut out a winepress therein. He looked for it to yield
grapes, but it yielded wild grapes.
{5:3} "Now, inhabitants of
Jerusalem and men of
Judah, please judge between me and my vineyard.
{5:4} What could have been done more to my vineyard, that I have not done in it? Why, when I looked for it to yield grapes, did it yield wild grapes?
{5:5} Now I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard. I will take away its hedge, and it will be eaten up. I will break down its wall of it, and it will be trampled down.
{5:6} I will lay it a wasteland. It won't be pruned nor hoed, but it will grow
briers and thorns. I will also command the
clouds that they rain no rain on it."
{5:7} For the vineyard of Yahweh of Armies is the house of
Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasant plant: and he looked for justice, but, behold, oppression; for righteousness, but, behold, a cry of distress.
{5:8} Woe to those who join house to house, who lay
field to field, until there is no room, and you are made to dwell alone in the midst of the land!
{5:9} In my ears, Yahweh of Armies says: "Surely many houses will be desolate, even great and beautiful, unoccupied.
{5:10} For
ten acres of vineyard shall yield
one bath, and a
homer of seed shall yield an
ephah".
{5:11} Woe to those who rise up early in the morning, that they may follow
strong drink; who stay late into the night, until wine inflames them!
{5:12} The
harp, lyre, tambourine, and
flute, with wine, are at their
feasts; but they don't respect the work of Yahweh, neither have they considered the operation of his hands.
{5:13} Therefore my people go into
captivity for lack of knowledge. Their honorable men are famished, and their multitudes are parched with thirst.
{5:14} Therefore
Sheol has enlarged its desire, and opened its mouth without measure; and their glory, their multitude, their pomp, and he who rejoices among them, descend into it.
{5:15} So man is brought low, mankind is humbled, and the eyes of the arrogant ones are humbled;
{5:16} but Yahweh of Armies is exalted in justice, and God the Holy One is sanctified in righteousness.
{5:17} Then the
lambs will graze as in their pasture, and strangers will eat the ruins of the rich.
{5:18} Woe to those who draw iniquity with
cords of falsehood, and wickedness as with
cart rope;
{5:19} Who say, "Let him make speed, let him hasten his work, that we may see it; and let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel draw near and come, that we may know it!"
{5:20} Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil; who put
darkness for light, and light for darkness; who put
bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!
{5:21} Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight!
{5:22} Woe to those who are mighty to drink wine, and champions at mixing strong drink;
{5:23} who acquit the guilty for a bribe, but deny justice for the innocent!
{5:24} Therefore as the tongue of
fire devours the stubble, and as the dry
grass sinks down in the flame, so their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as
dust; because they have rejected the
law of Yahweh of Armies, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.
{5:25} Therefore Yahweh's anger burns against his people, and he has stretched out his hand against them, and has struck them. The mountains tremble, and their dead bodies are as refuse in the midst of the streets. For all this, his anger is not turned away, but his hand is still stretched out.
{5:26} He will lift up a
banner to the nations from far, and he will whistle for them from the end of the
earth. Behold, they will come speedily and swiftly.
{5:27} None shall be weary nor stumble among them; none shall slumber nor sleep; neither shall the belt of their waist be untied, nor the
latchet of their shoes be broken:
{5:28} whose
arrows are sharp, and all their
bows bent. Their
horses'
hoofs will be like
flint, and their wheels like a whirlwind.
{5:29} Their roaring will be like a
lioness. They will roar like young lions. Yes, they shall roar, and seize their prey and carry it off, and there will be no one to deliver.
{5:30} They will roar against them in that day like the roaring of the sea. If one looks to the land behold, darkness and distress. The light is darkened in its clouds.
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