Isaiah 3–5

For behold, ^athe Lord, the Lord of hosts,

^bDoth take away from Jerusalem and from Judah ^cthe stay and the staff,

The whole stay of bread, and the whole stay of water,

^2dThe mighty man, and the man of war,

The judge, and the prophet, and ^ethe prudent, and the ancient,

³The captain of fifty, and the honourable man,

And the counseller, and ^fthe cunning artificer, and the eloquent orator.

⁴And ^hI will give children to be their princes,

And ⁱbabes shall rule over them.

⁵And the people shall be ^joppressed, every one by another, and every one by his neighbour:

The child shall ^kbehave himself proudly against the ancient,

And the base against the honourable.

⁶When ^la man shall take hold of his brother of the house of his father, saying,

Thou hast clothing, be thou our ^mruler,

And let this ⁿruin be under thy hand:

^7oIn that day shall he swear, saying,

I will not be a healer;

For in my house is neither bread nor clothing:

Make me not a ^mruler of the people.

⁸For Jerusalem ⁿis ruined, and Judah is fallen:

Because their tongue and their doings are against the Lord,

^pTo provoke the eyes of his glory.

⁹The shew of their countenance doth witness against them;

And they ^qdeclare their sin ^ras Sodom, they hide it not.

Woe unto their soul! for they have rewarded evil unto themselves.

¹⁰Say ye to the righteous, ^sthat it shall be ^twell with him:

For ^uthey shall eat the fruit of their doings.

¹¹Woe unto the wicked! ^vit shall be ill with him:

For ^wthe reward of his hands shall be given him.

¹²As for my people, ^hchildren are their ^joppressors,

And women rule over them.

O my people, they which lead thee cause thee to err,

And destroy the way of thy paths.

¹³The Lord ^xstandeth up ^yto plead,

And standeth to judge the people.

¹⁴The Lord ^zwill enter into judgment with the ancients of his people, and the princes thereof:

For ye have eaten up ^athe vineyard;

The spoil of the poor is in your houses.

¹⁵What mean ye that ye ^bbeat my people to pieces,

And grind the faces of the poor?

Saith the Lord God of hosts.

¹⁶Moreover the Lord saith,

^cBecause ^dthe daughters of Zion are haughty,

And walk with stretched forth necks and wanton eyes,

Walking and mincing as they go,

And ^emaking a tinkling with their feet:

¹⁷Therefore the Lord will smite with a scab the crown of the head of ^dthe daughters of Zion,

And the Lord will ^fdiscover their secret parts.

^18gIn that day the Lord will take away the bravery of their ^etinkling ornaments about their feet,

And ^htheir cauls, and their ⁱround tires like the moon,

¹⁹The chains, and the bracelets, and the mufflers,

^20kThe bonnets, and the ornaments of the legs, and ^lthe headbands,

And the tablets, and ^mthe earrings,

²¹ⁿThe rings, and ^onose jewels,

^22pThe changeable suits of apparel, and the mantles,

And ^qthe wimples, and ^rthe crisping pins,

^23rrThe glasses, and ^sthe fine linen,

And ^tthe hoods, and ^uthe vails.

²⁴And it shall come to pass, that ^vinstead of sweet smell there shall be ^wstink;

And instead of a girdle a rent;

And instead of ^hwell set hair ^vxbaldness;

And instead of a stomacher ^ya girding of sackcloth;

And burning ^zinstead of beauty.

²⁵Thy men shall fall by the sword,

And thy mighty in the war.

²⁶And ^aher gates shall ^blament and mourn;

And she being desolate ^cshall sit upon the ground.

IV.And ^ain that day ^bseven women ^cshall take hold of ^done man, saying,

We will eat our own bread, and wear our own apparel:

Only let us be called by thy name,

^eTo take away our reproach.

^2aIn that day shall ^eethe branch of the Lord be beautiful and glorious,

And the fruit of the earth shall be ^ffexcellent and comely

For them that are escaped of Israel.

³And it shall come to pass, that he that is left in Zion,

And he that remaineth in Jerusalem,

^hShall be called holy,

Even every one ⁱthat is written among the living in Jerusalem:

^4jWhen the Lord shall have washed away the filth of ^kthe daughters of Zion,

And shall have ^lpurged the blood of Jerusalem from the midst thereof

^llBy the spirit of judgment, and by the spirit of burning.

⁵And the Lord will create upon every dwelling place of mount Zion,

And upon her assemblies,

^mA cloud and smoke by day,

And ⁿthe shining ^mof a flaming fire by night:

For upon all the glory shall be a defence.

⁶And there shall be ^oa tabernacle ^pfor a shadow in the daytime from the heat,

And ^qfor a place of refuge, and for ^ra covert from storm and from rain.

V.Now will I sing to ^amy wellbeloved ^ba song of my beloved touching ^chis vineyard.

^aMy wellbeloved hath a vineyard in a very fruitful hill:

²And ^dhe fenced it, and ^egathered out the stones thereof,

And ^dplanted it with ^fthe choicest vine,

And ^dbuilt a tower in the midst of it,

And ^dalso made ^ga winepress therein:

And ^hhe looked that it should bring forth grapes,

And it brought forth wild grapes.

³And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem, and men of Judah,

Judge, I pray you, betwixt me and my vineyard.

⁴What could have been done more to my vineyard,

That I have not done in it?

Wherefore, ^hwhen I looked that it should bring forth grapes,

Brought it forth wild grapes?

⁵And now go to, I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard:

I will take away ⁱthe hedge thereof, and ^jit shall be eaten up;

And ^kbreak down the wall thereof, and it shall be trodden down:

⁶And I will lay it waste:

It shall not be pruned, nor digged;

But there shall come up ^lbriers and thorns:

I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it.

⁷For ^mthe vineyard of the Lord of hosts is the house of Israel,

And the men of Judah his pleasant plant:

And he looked for judgment, but behold oppression;

For righteousness, but behold a cry.

⁸Woe unto them that join ^ohouse to house,

That lay ^ofield to field, till there be no place,

That they may be placed alone in the midst of the earth!

⁹In mine ears said the Lord of hosts,

Of a truth many houses shall be desolate,

Even great and fair, without inhabitant.

¹⁰Yea, ten acres of vineyard shall yield one ^pbath,

And ^qthe seed of ^pa homer shall yield ^pan ephah.

^11rWoe unto them that rise up early in the morning, that they may follow strong drink;

^sThat continue until night, till wine ^tinflame them!

¹²And ^uvthe harp, and ^uwthe viol, the ^uvxytabret, and ^uypipe,

And wine, are in their feasts:

But ^zthey regard not ^athe work of the Lord,

^zNeither ^aconsider ^bthe operation of his hands.

¹³Therefore my people are gone into captivity, ^cbecause they have no knowledge:

And their honourable men are famished,

And their multitude dried up with thirst.

¹⁴Therefore ^dhell hath enlarged herself,

And ^eopened ^fher mouth without measure:

And their glory, and ^fftheir multitude, and their ^gpomp,

And ^ffhe that rejoiceth, shall descend into it.

¹⁵And ^hthe mean man shall be brought down,

And the mighty man shall be humbled,

And the eyes of the lofty shall be humbled:

¹⁶But ⁱthe Lord of hosts shall be exalted in judgment,

And God that is holy shall be sanctified in righteousness.

¹⁷Then shall the lambs feed after ^jtheir manner,

And the waste places of ^kthe fat ones shall ^lstrangers eat.

¹⁸Woe unto them that draw iniquity with cords of vanity,

And ^msin as it were with a cart rope:

¹⁹ⁿThat say, Let him make speed, and hasten his work,

That we may see it:

And let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel draw nigh and come,

That we may know it.

²⁰Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil;

^oThat put darkness for light, and light for darkness;

That put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!

²¹Woe unto them that are ^pwise in their own eyes,

And prudent in their own sight

^22qWoe unto them that are ^rmighty to drink wine,

And men of strength to mingle strong drink:

^23sWhich justify the wicked for ^treward,

And take away the righteousness of the righteous from him.

²⁴Therefore ^aas the fire devoureth ^bthe stubble,

And ^cthe flame consumeth ^bthe chaff,

So ^dtheir root shall be as ^erottenness,

And their blossom shall go up as dust:

Because they have cast away the law of the Lord of hosts,

And ^fdespised the word of ^ffthe Holy One of Israel.

^25gTherefore is the anger of the Lord kindled against his people,

And he hath stretched forth his hand against them, and hath smitten them:

And ^hthe hills did tremble, and their carcases were torn in the midst of the streets.

ⁱFor all this his anger is not turned away,

But his hand is stretched out still.

^26kAnd he will lift up an ensign to the nations ^lnfrom far,

And ^mwill hiss unto them ⁿfrom the end of the earth:

And behold, they shall come ⁿⁿwith speed swiftly:

^27oNone shall be weary nor ^pstumble amongst them;

None shall ^qslumber nor sleep;

Neither ^rshall the girdle of their loins be loosed,

Nor ^sthe latchet of their shoes be broken:

^28tWhose arrows are sharp, and all ^utheir bows bent,

Their horses’ hoofs shall be counted like flint,

And their wheels ^vlike a whirlwind:

²⁹Their roaring shall be ^wlike ^xa lion,

They shall roar like ^xyoung lions:

Yea, they shall roar, and lay hold of the prey,

And shall carry it away safe, and none shall deliver it.

³⁰And ^yin that day they shall roar against them like the roaring of the sea:

And ^zif one look unto the land, ^zbehold darkness and sorrow,

And the light is darkened in the heavens thereof.

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