Isaiah 5
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Parable of the Vineyard
1
Let me sing now for my well-beloved
A song of my beloved concerning His vineyard.
My well-beloved had a vineyard on a fertile hill.
2
He dug it all around, removed its stones,
And planted it with the choicest vine.
And He built a tower in the middle of it
And also hewed out a wine vat in it;
Then He expected
it
to produce
good
grapes,
But it produced
only
worthless ones.
3
“And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem and men of Judah,
Judge between Me and My vineyard.
4
“What more was there to do for My vineyard that I have not done in it?
Why, when I expected
it
to produce
good
grapes did it produce worthless ones?
5
“So now let Me tell you what I am going to do to My vineyard:
I will remove its hedge and it will be consumed;
I will break down its wall and it will become trampled ground.
6
“I will lay it waste;
It will not be pruned or hoed,
But briars and thorns will come up.
I will also charge the clouds to rain no rain on it.”
7
For the vineyard of the L
ORD
of hosts is the house of Israel
And the men of Judah His delightful plant.
Thus He looked for justice, but behold, bloodshed;
For righteousness, but behold, a cry of distress.
Woes for the Wicked
8
Woe to those who add house to house
and
join field to field,
Until there is no more room,
So that you have to live alone in the midst of the land!
9
In my ears the L
ORD
of hosts
has sworn,
“Surely, many houses shall become desolate,
Even
great and fine ones, without occupants.
10
“For ten acres of vineyard will yield
only
one bath
of wine,
And a homer of seed will yield
but
an ephah of grain.”
11
Woe to those who rise early in the morning that they may pursue strong drink,
Who stay up late in the evening that wine may inflame them!
12
Their banquets are
accompanied
by lyre and harp, by tambourine and flute, and by wine;
But they do not pay attention to the deeds of the L
ORD
,
Nor do they consider the work of His hands.
13
Therefore My people go into exile for their lack of knowledge;
And their honorable men are famished,
And their multitude is parched with thirst.
14
Therefore Sheol has enlarged its throat and opened its mouth without measure;
And Jerusalem’s splendor, her multitude, her din
of revelry
and the jubilant within her, descend
into it.
15
So the
common
man will be humbled and the man of
importance
abased,
The eyes of the proud also will be abased.
16
But the L
ORD
of hosts will be exalted in judgment,
And the holy God will show Himself holy in righteousness.
17
Then the lambs will graze as in their pasture,
And strangers will eat in the waste places of the wealthy.
18
Woe to those who drag iniquity with the cords of falsehood,
And sin as if with cart ropes;
19
Who say, “Let Him make speed, let Him hasten His work, that we may see
it;
And let the purpose of the Holy One of Israel draw near
And come to pass, that we may know
it!
”
20
Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil;
Who substitute darkness for light and light for darkness;
Who substitute bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter!
21
Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes
And clever in their own sight!
22
Woe to those who are heroes in drinking wine
And valiant men in mixing strong drink,
23
Who justify the wicked for a bribe,
And take away the rights of the ones who are in the right!
24
Therefore, as a tongue of fire consumes stubble
And dry grass collapses into the flame,
So their root will become like rot and their blossom blow away as dust;
For they have rejected the law of the L
ORD
of hosts
And despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.
25
On this account the anger of the L
ORD
has burned against His people,
And He has stretched out His hand against them and struck them down.
And the mountains quaked, and their corpses lay like refuse in the middle of the streets.
For all this His anger is not spent,
But His hand is still stretched out.
26
He will also lift up a standard to the distant nation,
And will whistle for it from the ends of the earth;
And behold, it will come with speed swiftly.
27
No one in it is weary or stumbles,
None slumbers or sleeps;
Nor is the belt at its waist undone,
Nor its sandal strap broken.
28
Its arrows are sharp and all its bows are bent;
The hoofs of its horses seem like flint and its
chariot
wheels like a whirlwind.
29
Its roaring is like a lioness, and it roars like young lions;
It growls as it seizes the prey
And carries
it
off with no one to deliver
it.
30
And it will growl over it in that day like the roaring of the sea.
If one looks to the land, behold, there is darkness
and
distress;
Even the light is darkened by its clouds.
NASB © 1995 by The Lockman Foundation
Ephah
,
Isaiah
Jerusalem
,
Mount Zion
1.
Under the parable of a vineyard, God excuses his severe judgment
8.
His judgments upon covetousness
11.
Upon lasciviousness
13.
Upon impiety
20.
And upon injustice
26.
The executioners of God's judgments
