Isaiah5
The Song of the Vineyard
1Let me sing for my beloveda song of my love concerning his vineyard:⸤My beloved had a vineyard⸥ on ⸤a fertile hill⸥. 2And he dug it and cleared it of stones,and he planted it with choice vines, and he built a watchtower in the middle of it,and he even hewed out a wine vat in it,and he waited for it to yield grapes—but it yielded wild grapes.3And now, inhabitants of Jerusalemand men of Judah, judge between me and my vineyard.4What more was there to do for my vineyard that I have not done in it?Why did I hope for it to yield grapes, and it yielded wild grapes?5And now let me tell you what I myself am about to do to my vineyard.I will remove its hedge, and it shall become a devastation.I will break down its wall, and it shall become a trampling.6And I will make it a wasteland;it shall not be pruned and hoed,and it shall be overgrown with briers and thornbushes. And concerning the clouds, I will command ⸤them not to send⸥ rain down upon it.7For the vineyard of Yahweh of hosts is the house of Israel,and the man of Judah is the plantation of his delight.And he waited for justice, but look! Bloodshed! For righteousness, but look! A cry of distress!Woes on the Wicked
8Ah! Those who ⸤join⸥ house with house,they join field together with fielduntil ⸤there is no place⸥ and you are caused to dwell alone in the midst of the land.9Yahweh of hosts said in my ears:⸤Surely⸥ many houses shall become a desolation,large and beautiful ones without inhabitant.10For ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and the seed of a homer will yield an ephah. 11Ah! Those who rise early in the morning,they pursue strong drink.Those who linger in the evening,wine inflames them.12And there will be lyre and harp,tambourine and flute,and wine at their feasts,but they do not look at the deeds of Yahweh,and they do not see the work of his hands.13Therefore my people will go into exile without knowledge,and their nobles will be men of hunger,and their multitude is parched with thirst.14Therefore Sheol has enlarged its throat,and it has opened wide its mouth without limit,and her nobles will go down, and her multitude,her tumult and those who revel in her.15And humankind is bowed down,and man is brought low,and the eyes of the haughty are humiliated.16But Yahweh of hosts is exalted by justice,and the holy God shows himself holy by righteousness.17And then the lambs will graze as in their pasture,and ⸤fatlings, kids will eat among the sites of ruins.⸥ 18Ah! Those who drag iniquity along with the cords of falsehoodand sin as with rope of the cart,19those who say,“Let him make haste;let him hurry his workso that we may see itand let it draw nearand let the plan of the holy one of Israel comeso that we may know it!”20Ah! Those who call evil good and good evil,those who put darkness for light and light for darkness,those who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter!21Ah! Those who are wise in their own eyesand have understanding ⸤in their view⸥! 22Ah! Heroes at drinking wine,and men of capability at mixing strong drink!23Those who acquit the guilty because of a bribeand remove the justice of the innocent from him.24Therefore as the tongue of fire devours the stubble,and dry grass sinks down in the flame,so their root will become like the stench,and their blossom will go up like the dust.For they have rejected the instruction of Yahweh of hosts,and they have treated the word of the holy one of Israel with contempt.25Therefore ⸤Yahweh’s wrath was kindled⸥ against his people,and he stretched out his hand against them and struck them, and the mountains quaked,and their corpses were like refuse in the middle of the streets.Yahweh’s Outstretched HandIn all of this his anger has not turned back,and still his hand is stretched out.26And he will raise a signal for a nation from afar,and he will whistle for it from the end of the earth.And look! It comes quickly, swiftly!27None is weary,and none among him stumbles;none slumbers and none sleeps.And no loincloth on his waist is opened,and no thong of his sandals is drawn away.28Whose arrows are sharp,and all of his bows are bent.The hoofs of his horses are reckoned like flint,and his wheels like the storm wind.29His roaring is like the lion,and he roars like young lions.And he growls and seizes his prey,and he carries it off,and not one can rescue it.30And he will roar over him on that daylike the roaring of the sea,and if one looks to the land, look! Darkness! Distress!And the light grows dark with its clouds.Logos Bible Software