Isaiah 5:20–30

20 Woep to those who call evil goodq

and good evil,r

who put darkness for light

and light for darkness,s

who put bitter for sweet

and sweet for bitter.t

21 Woe to those who are wise in their own eyesu

and clever in their own sight.

22 Woe to those who are heroes at drinking winev

and champions at mixing drinks,w

23 who acquit the guilty for a bribe,x

but deny justicey to the innocent.z

24 Therefore, as tongues of firea lick up strawb

and as dry grass sinks down in the flames,

so their roots will decayc

and their flowers blow away like dust;d

for they have rejected the law of the Lord Almighty

and spurned the worde of the Holy Onef of Israel.

25 Therefore the Lord’s angerg burns against his people;

his hand is raised and he strikes them down.

The mountains shake,h

and the dead bodiesi are like refusej in the streets.k

Yet for all this, his anger is not turned away,l

his hand is still upraised.m

26 He lifts up a bannern for the distant nations,

he whistleso for those at the ends of the earth.p

Here they come,

swiftly and speedily!

27 Not one of them grows tiredq or stumbles,

not one slumbers or sleeps;

not a beltr is loosened at the waist,s

not a sandal strap is broken.t

28 Their arrows are sharp,u

all their bowsv are strung;

their horses’ hoovesw seem like flint,

their chariot wheels like a whirlwind.x

29 Their roar is like that of the lion,y

they roar like young lions;

they growl as they seizez their prey

and carry it off with no one to rescue.a

30 In that dayb they will roar over it

like the roaring of the sea.c

And if one looks at the land,

there is only darknessd and distress;e

even the sun will be darkenedf by clouds.