The Book of Isaiah (WEB)
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.
5:2He 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.
5:3Now, inhabitants of Jerusalem and men of Judah,
Please judge between me and my vineyard.
5:4What 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?
5:5Now 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.
5:6I 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.
5:7For the vineyard of Yahweh 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 of distress.
5:8Woe 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!
5:9In my ears, Yahweh of Hosts says: "Surely many houses will be desolate,
Even great and beautiful, unoccupied.
5:10For ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath,
And a homer of seed shall yield an ephah.
5:11Woe 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! 5:12The harp and the lute, the tambourine and the pipe, and wine, are in their feasts; but they don't regard the work of Yahweh, 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 has enlarged its desire, and opened its mouth without measure; and their glory, and their multitude, and their pomp, and he who rejoices among them, descend into it. 5:15The mean man is bowed down, and the great man is humbled, and the eyes of the lofty are humbled: 5:16but Yahweh 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 to those who draw iniquity with cords of falsehood, and sin as it were with a cart rope; 5:19who 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! 5:20Woe 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! 5:21Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight! 5:22Woe to those who are mighty to drink wine, and men of strength to mingle strong drink; 5:23who justify the wicked for a bribe, and take away the righteousness of the righteous from him! 5:24Therefore 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 Hosts, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel. 5:25Therefore is the anger of Yahweh kindled against his people, and he has stretched forth his hand against them, and has struck 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. 5:26He 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 belt 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; yes, they shall roar, and lay hold of the prey, and carry it away safe, and there shall be none to deliver. 5:30They shall roar against them in that day like the roaring of the sea: and if one look to the land, behold, darkness and distress; and the light is darkened in the clouds of it.
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