Isaiah 5:8-23 ▼

8 Woe [to] those joining house to house, || They bring field near to field, || Until there is no place, || And you have been settled by yourselves || In the midst of the land!

9 Do many houses not become a desolation by the weapons of YHWH of Hosts? Great and good without inhabitant!

10 For ten acres of vineyard yield one bath, || And a homer of seed yields an ephah.

11 Woe [to] those rising early in the morning, || They pursue strong drink! Lingering in twilight, wine inflames them!

12 And harp, and stringed instrument, tambourine, and pipe, || And wine, have been their banquets, || And they do not behold the work of YHWH, || Indeed, they have not seen the work of His hands.

13 Therefore my people removed without knowledge, || And its honorable ones are famished, || And its multitude dried up of thirst.

14 Therefore Sheol has enlarged herself, || And has opened her mouth without limit. And its honor has gone down, and its multitude, || And its noise, and its exulting one—into her.

15 And the low is bowed down, and the high humbled, || And the eyes of the haughty become low,

16 And YHWH of Hosts is high in judgment, || And the Holy God sanctified in righteousness,

17 And lambs have fed according to their leading, || And sojourners consume wastelands of the fat ones.

18 Woe [to] those drawing out iniquity with cords of vanity, || And as [with] thick ropes of the cart—sin.

19 Who are saying, “Let Him hurry, || Let Him hurry His work, that we may see, || And let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel || Draw near and come, and we know.”

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 in their own eyes, || And—before their own faces—intelligent!

22 Woe [to] the mighty to drink wine, || And men of strength to mingle strong drink.

23 Declaring righteous the wicked for a bribe, || And the righteousness of the righteous || They turn aside from him.