Isaiah 5:8–17

Woes on the Wicked

⁸Ah! Those who join^m house with house,

they join field together with field

until there is no placeⁿ

and you are caused to dwell alone in the midst of the land.

⁹Yahweh of hosts said in my ears:

Surely^o many houses shall become a desolation,

large and beautiful ones without inhabitant.

¹⁰For ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath,^p

and the seed of a homer will yield an ephah.^q

¹¹Ah! Those who rise early in the morning,

they pursue strong drink.

Those who linger in the evening,

wine inflames them.

¹²And there will be lyre and harp,

tambourine and flute,

and wine at their feasts,

but they do not look at the deeds^r of Yahweh,

and they do not see the work of his hands.

¹³Therefore my people will go into exile without knowledge,

and their^s nobles^t will be men of hunger,

and their^u multitude is parched with thirst.

¹⁴Therefore Sheol has enlarged its throat,

and it has opened wide its mouth without limit,

and her^v nobles^w will go down, and her multitude,

her tumult and those who revel in her.

¹⁵And humankind is bowed down,

and man is brought low,

and the eyes of the haughty are humiliated.

¹⁶But Yahweh of hosts is exalted by justice,

and the holy God shows himself holy by righteousness.

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

and fatlings, kids^x will eat among the sites of ruins.^y