The Book of Isaiah
5:1 Let me sing for my wellbeloved a song of my beloved touching his vineyard.
My wellbeloved had a vineyard in a very fruitful hill: 5:2and he digged it, and
gathered out the stones thereof, and planted it with the choicest vine, and built a
tower in the midst of it, and also hewed out a winepress therein: and he looked
that it should bring forth grapes, and it brought forth wild grapes. 5:3And now, O
inhabitants of Jerusalem and men of Judah, judge, I pray you, betwixt me and my
vineyard. 5:4What could have been done more to my vineyard, that I have not done
in it? wherefore, when I looked that it should bring forth grapes, brought it forth
wild grapes? 5:5And now I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard: I will take
away the hedge thereof, and it shall be eaten up; I will break down the wall
thereof, and it shall be trodden down: 5:6and I will lay it waste; it shall not be
pruned nor hoed; but there shall come up briers and thorns: I will also command
the clouds that they rain no rain upon it. 5:7For the vineyard of Jehovah of hosts 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. 5:8Woe unto
them that join house to house, that lay field to field, till there be no room, and ye
be made to dwell alone in the midst of the land! 5:9In mine ears saith Jehovah of
hosts, Of a truth many houses shall be desolate, even great and fair, without
inhabitant. 5:10For ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and a homer of seed
shall yield but an ephah. 5:11Woe unto them that rise up early in the morning, that
they may follow strong drink; that tarry late into the night, till wine inflame them!
5:12And the harp and the lute, the tabret and the pipe, and wine, are in their feasts;
but they regard not the work of Jehovah, neither have they considered the
operation of his hands. 5:13Therefore my people are gone into captivity for lack of
knowledge; and their honorable men are famished, and their multitude are
parched with thirst. 5:14Therefore Sheol hath enlarged its desire, and opened its
mouth without measure; and their glory, and their multitude, and their pomp, and
he that rejoiceth among them, descend into it. 5:15And the mean man is bowed
down, and the great man is humbled, and the eyes of the lofty are humbled: 5:16but
Jehovah of hosts is exalted in justice, and God the Holy One is sanctified in
righteousness. 5:17Then shall the lambs feed as in their pasture, and the waste
places of the fat ones shall wanderers eat. 5:18Woe unto them that draw iniquity
with cords of falsehood, and sin as it were with a cart rope; 5:19that 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 nigh and come, that we may know it! 5:20Woe unto them
that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for
darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter! 5:21Woe unto them that are
wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight! 5:22Woe unto them that are
mighty to drink wine, and men of strength to mingle strong drink; 5:23that justify
the wicked for a bribe, and take away the righteousness of the righteous from
him! 5:24Therefore as the tongue of fire devoureth the stubble, and as the dry grass
sinketh 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 Jehovah of hosts, and
despised the word of the Holy One of Israel. 5:25Therefore is the anger of Jehovah
kindled against his people, and he hath stretched forth his hand against them, and
hath smitten them; and 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
stretched out still. 5:26And he will lift up an ensign to the nations from far, and will
hiss for them from the end of the earth; and, behold, they shall come with speed
swiftly. 5:27None shall be weary nor stumble among them; none shall slumber nor
sleep; neither shall the girdle of their loins be loosed, nor the latchet of their shoes
be broken: 5:28whose arrows are sharp, and all their bows bent; their horses' hoofs
shall be accounted as flint, and their wheels as a whirlwind: 5:29their roaring shall
be like a lioness, they shall roar like young lions; yea, they shall roar, and lay hold
of the prey, and carry it away safe, and there shall be none to deliver. 5:30And they
shall roar against them in that day like the roaring of the sea: and if one look unto
the land, behold, darkness and distress; and the light is darkened in the clouds
thereof.