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ULT by section ISA 5:1

⌂ ← ISA 5:1–5:30 → ║ ©

The Book of Isaiah 5

5 Let me sing, please, to my beloved

a song of my beloved for his vineyard.

My beloved had a vineyard

on a hill of richness.

2 And he dug it and cleared it

and planted it with choice vines,

and he built a tower in the middle of it

and also hewed a winepress in it.

And he waited for it to produce grapes,

but it produced wild grapes.

3 And now, dweller of Jerusalem

and man of Judah,

judge, please, between me and between my vineyard.

4 What more could have been done for my vineyard,

that I have not done for it?

I waited for it to produce grapes⁠,

but why did it produce wild grapes?

5 And now, please, I shall tell you

what I shall do to my vineyard:

I shall remove its hedge,

and it will be consumed.

I shall break down its wall,

and it will be trampled down.

6 And I shall make it a desolation.

It will not be pruned or hoed,

and briers and thorns will spring up.

And I shall command the clouds

against raining rain on it.

7 For the vineyard of Yahweh of hosts

is the house of Israel,

and the man of Judah

his pleasant plant.

And he waited for justice,

but behold, slaughter;

for righteousness,

but behold, screaming.

8 Woe, those who join house to house,

field to field they approach

until there is no room,

and you are made to remain alone

in the midst of the land!

9 In my ears, Yahweh of hosts:

‘Surely many houses will be empty—

great and good ones without an inhabitant.

10 For a ten-yoke vineyard will yield one bath,

and a homer of seed will yield an ephah.’

11 Woe, those who rise up early in the morning

to obtain strong drink,

those who loiter into the night

as wine inflames them,

12 and whose feasts are harp and lyre,

tambourine and flute and wine,

but they do not regard the work of Yahweh,

and they have not discerned the doings of his hands.

13 Therefore, my people are exiled

for lack of understanding,

and its honorable people are hungry,

and its parched multitude is thirsty.

14 Therefore, Sheol has enlarged its appetite

and has opened its mouth without limit,

and its elite and its crowd will descend,

and its revelers and its happy.

15 And man will be humbled, and mankind will be brought down,

and the eyes of the lofty will be brought down.

16 And Yahweh of hosts will be exalted in justice,

and the Holy God will be holy by his righteousness.

17 And the sheep will feed as in their pasture,

and goats will eat the ruins of the fatted.[fn]

18 Woe, those who pull in iniquity with cords of falsehood

and like with cart ropes, sin;

19 who say, ‘Let him hurry,

let him hasten his work

so that we may see,

and let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel draw near

and let it come and let us know.’

20 Woe, those who call evil good

and good evil,

who set darkness as light,

and light as darkness,

who set bitter as sweet,

and sweet as bitter!

21 Woe to those wise in their own eyes

and before their own faces, discerning.

22 Woe, mighty men of wine-drinking,

and men of strength of liquor-mixing;

23 who declare righteous the wicked for a bribe

and take away from the righteous his rights!

24 Therefore, as the tongue of fire devours stubble

and the dry grass goes down in flame,

so their root will rot,

and their blossom will rise like dust.

For they have rejected the law of Yahweh of hosts,

and they have despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.

25 Therefore, the nose of Yahweh burns against his people,

and he has reached out his hand against them and has struck them,

and the mountains tremble,

and their corpses become like garbage

in the streets.

In all these things, his nose does not turn away,

and still his hand is stretched out.

26 And he will lift up a signal for faraway nations

and will whistle for him from the end of the earth.

And behold, quick, swift it will come.

27 None tires and none stumbles among it;

he does not slumber and does not sleep.

And the belts of their loins are not loose,

and the thongs of their sandals are not broken.

28 For its arrows are sharp

and all its bows bent;

the hooves of its horses seem like flint,

and its chariot wheels like storms.

29 Its roaring like a lion,

and it will roar like young lions.

And it will growl and seize the prey and drag it away,

and there will be no rescuer.

30 And it will roar against it on that day

as the roar of the sea.

And one looks over the land,

and behold, darkness, suffering!

And the light will be darkened by the clouds.

Some modern versions have and in the ruins, lambs will graze as foreigners.