LEB ISA chapter 5

The Song of the Vineyard

a song of my love concerning his vineyard:

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- 2  and he planted it with choice vines,[fn]
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.
- 3  and men[fn] of Judah, judge between me and my vineyard.
- 4 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?
5 And 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.
- 6  it shall not be pruned and hoed,
and it shall be overgrown with briers[fn] and thornbushes.[fn]
- And concerning the clouds, I will command[fn] rain down upon it.
- 7 is the house of Israel, and the man[fn] of Judah is the plantation of his delight.
And he waited for justice,[fn]
- but look! Bloodshed![fn]
For righteousness,[fn]
- but look! A cry of distress![fn]

Woes on the Wicked

8 [fn] house with house, they join field together with field

until[fn]
- and you are caused to dwell alone in the midst of the land.
9 Yahweh of hosts said in my ears:[fn] many houses shall become a desolation,
- large and beautiful ones without inhabitant.
10 [fn] and the seed of a homer will yield an ephah.[fn]
- 11 they pursue strong drink.
Those who linger in the evening,
- wine inflames them.
- 12 there will be lyre and harp, tambourine and flute,
- and wine at their feasts,
but they do not look at the deeds[fn] of Yahweh,
- and they do not see the work of his hands.
13  and their[fn] nobles[fn] will be men of hunger,
and their[fn] multitude is parched with thirst.
- 14  and it has opened wide its mouth without limit,
and her[fn] nobles[fn] will go down, and her multitude,
- her tumult and those who revel in her.
- 15  and man is brought low,
- and the eyes of the haughty are humiliated.
- 16  and the holy God shows himself holy by righteousness.
- 17 the lambs will graze as in their pasture, and[fn] will eat among the sites of ruins.[fn]
- 18  and sin as with rope of the cart,
19  “Let him make haste;
- let him hurry his work
  - so that we may see it
and let it draw near
- and let the plan of the holy one of Israel come
  - so that we may know it!”
- 20  those who put darkness for light and light for darkness,
- those who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter!
- 21 Those who are wise in their own eyes and have understanding[fn]
- 22  and men of capability at mixing strong drink!
- 23  and remove the justice of the innocent from him.
- 24  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.
- 25 [fn] against his people, and he stretched out his hand against them[fn] and struck them,[fn]
and the mountains quaked,
- and their corpses[fn] were like refuse in the middle of the streets.

Yahweh’s Outstretched Hand

In all of this his anger has not turned back,
- and still his hand is stretched out.
26 [fn] from afar, and he will whistle for it from the end of the earth.
And look! It comes quickly, swiftly!
- 27 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.
- 28  and all of his bows are bent.
The hoofs of his horses are reckoned like flint,
- and his wheels like the storm wind.
- 29 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.
- 30  like the roaring of the sea,
and if one looks to the land, look! Darkness! Distress!
- And the light grows dark with its[fn] clouds.

5:? Literally “A vineyard was for my beloved”

5:? Literally “a horn of a son of olive oil.” The Hebrew for horn, qeren, sounds like the Hebrew for vineyard, kerem

5:? Hebrew “vine”

5:? Hebrew “man”

5:5 Hebrew “brier”

5:5 Hebrew “thornbush”

5:5 Literally “from sending”

5:5 Or “people”

5:5 The Hebrew word, mishpat, sounds like mishpakh in the next line

5:5 The Hebrew word, mishpakh, sounds like mishpat in the previous line

5:5 The Hebrew word, tsedaqah, sounds like tsa`aqah in the next line

5:5 The Hebrew word, tsa`aqah, sounds like tsedaqah in the previous line

5:5 Literally “touch”

5:5 Literally “an end of place”

5:9 Literally “If not”

5:9 A bath is a liquid measure

5:9 An ephah is a dry measure equal to one-tenth of a homer

5:9 Hebrew “deed”

5:9 Hebrew “its”

5:9 Hebrew “noble”

5:9 Hebrew “its”

5:9 That is, Jerusalem’s

5:9 Hebrew “noble”

5:9 Following the Septuagint, which reads the Hebrew grym (resident aliens) as gdym (young goats/sheep)

5:9 Literally “and ruins, fatlings, resident aliens, will eat”

5:9 Literally “before their faces”

5:9 Literally “the anger of Yahweh became hot”

5:9 Hebrew “it”

5:9 Hebrew “corpse”

5:9 The Hebrew is plural, but the following verses refer to the nation as singular

5:9 Presumably the land’s

LEB ISA Chapter 5