Isaiah 5

The Song of the Vineyard

1Let me sing for my beloved

My beloved had a vineyard on a fertile hill.

2And he dug it and cleared it of stones,

and he built a watchtower in the middle of it,

and he waited for it to yield grapes—

3And now, inhabitants of Jerusalem

4What more was there to do for my vineyard that I have not done in it?

5And now let me tell you what I myself am about to do to my vineyard.

I will remove its hedge, and it shall become a devastation.

6And I will make it a wasteland;

and it shall be overgrown with briers and thornbushes.

7For the vineyard of Yahweh of hosts is the house of Israel,

And he waited for justice,

For righteousness,

Woes on the Wicked

8Ah! Those who join house with house,[#Literally “touch”]

until there is no place

9Yahweh of hosts said in my ears:

Surely many houses shall become a desolation,

10For ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath,[#A bath is a liquid measure]

and the seed of a homer will yield an ephah.

11Ah! Those who rise early in the morning,

Those who linger in the evening,

12And there will be lyre and harp,

but they do not look at the deeds of Yahweh,

13Therefore my people will go into exile without knowledge,

and their nobles will be men of hunger,

and their multitude is parched with thirst.

14Therefore Sheol has enlarged its throat,

and her nobles will go down, and her multitude,

15And humankind is bowed down,

16But Yahweh of hosts is exalted by justice,

17And then the lambs will graze as in their pasture,

18Ah! Those who drag iniquity along with the cords of falsehood

19those who say,

“Let him make haste;

and let it draw near

20Ah! Those who call evil good and good evil,

21Ah! Those who are wise in their own eyes

22Ah! Heroes at drinking wine,

23Those who acquit the guilty because of a bribe

24Therefore as the tongue of fire devours the stubble,

so their root will become like the stench,

For they have rejected the instruction of Yahweh of hosts,

25Therefore Yahweh’s wrath was kindled against his people,[#Literally “the anger of Yahweh became hot”]

and the mountains quaked,

Yahweh’s Outstretched Hand

In all of this his anger has not turned back,

26And he will raise a signal for a nation from afar,[#The Hebrew is plural, but the following verses refer to the nation as singular]

and he will whistle for it from the end of the earth.

And look! It comes quickly, swiftly!

27None is weary,

And no loincloth on his waist is opened,

28Whose arrows are sharp,

The hoofs of his horses are reckoned like flint,

29His roaring is like the lion,

And he growls and seizes his prey,

30And he will roar over him on that day

and if one looks to the land, look! Darkness! Distress!

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