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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.

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”

LEB by section ISA 5:8

Woes on the Wicked