Isaiah 5

5Now 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!

^9||In 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 ^pan 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 among 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.