Isaiah 5:5-30 ▼

5 And now I will let you? know what I am going to do to My vineyard: I will take away its hedge, and it will be consumed and the breaking down of its wall, and it will be free for trampling.

6 And I will set it as a waste—it will not be pruned nor hoed, and there will come up brier and thorn; and also the clouds I will command against raining on it with rain.”

7 For the vineyard of YHWH of Hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah are the plant of His delight; and He looked for justice, and behold, bloodshed—for righteousness, and behold, outcry.

8 Woe to those joining house to house; field to field they bring near, until there is no place to stand, and you? are made to dwell by yourselves alone in the midst of the land!

9 In my hearing, YHWH of Hosts says: “Surely many houses will be a desolation—great and beautiful ones without one dwelling!

10 For a ten yoke vineyard will yield one bath, and a homer of seed will yield an ephah.

11 Woe to those rising early in the morning to pursue strong drink, tarrying into the twilight as wine inflames them!

12 Are the lyre and harp and tambourine, and flute and wine, are at their feasts; and the work of YHWH they do not regard, and the work of His hands they do not see.

13 Therefore my people have gone into captivity from lack of knowledge; and its honored men go hungry, and its multitude is parched with thirst.

14 Therefore Sheol has enlarged her soul and has opened her mouth beyond measure; her nobles will go down—and her crowd and her revelers and exulting—into her.

15 And mankind is bent down, and each man is brought low, and the eyes of the haughty will be brought down.

16 YHWH of Hosts will be exalted in justice, and the Holy God will show Himself holy in righteousness.

17 And the lambs will graze as in their pasture, and in the waste places of the fat ones, sojourners will eat.

18 Woe to those drawing out iniquity with cords of falsehood, and sin with a rope of the cart,

19 saying, “Let Him hurry, let Him hurry His work, that we may see it! Let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel draw near and come, that we may know it!”

20 Woe to those saying to evil “Good,” and to good “Evil,” putting darkness for light and light for darkness, putting bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter!

21 Woe to the wise ones in their own eyes, and before their own faces discerning.

22 Woe to the mighty at drinking wine and men of strength in mixing strong drink,

23 those declaring right the wicked for a bribe, and justice for the righteous ones they turn aside from him.

24 Therefore as the tongue of fire devours the chaff and the flame consumes the stubble, their root will be as rottenness, and their blossom will go up like dust, because they have rejected the instruction of YHWH of hosts, and the Word of the Holy One of Israel they have despised.

25 Thus the anger of YHWH burns against His people; and therefore He has stretched out His hand against them and struck them, and the hills trembled; and their carcasses became like refuse in the midst of the streets. In all this, His anger is not turned away, and still His hand is stretched out.

26 And He will lift up a signal for the nations from afar, and He will whistle to them from the end of the earth—and behold, swiftly with haste it will come!

27 No one will be weary nor stumbling among them; he will not will he slumber and not sleep, and not will be loosed the girdle of his loins, and not will be broken the strap of his sandals—

28 whose arrows are sharp, and all his bows bent; the hooves of his horses like flint are reckoned, and his wheels like a whirlwind.

29 The roaring of him is like a lion—he roars like the young lions, and growls and seizes prey and carries it away safely, and there is no one delivering.

30 And he will roar over it that on the day, like the roaring of the sea. And one looks over the land, and behold, darkness and distress, and the light is darkened by its clouds.