Isaiah 5

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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