Isaiah 5:8–17

Woes to Those Who Call Evil Good

⁸Woe to those who ^aadd house to house and join field to field,

Until there is no more room,

So that you have to live alone in the midst of the land!

⁹In my ears Yahweh of hosts has sworn, “Surely, ^amany houses shall become ^bdesolate,

Even great and good ones, without inhabitants.

¹⁰“For ^aten ¹acres of vineyard will yield only one ²bath of wine,

And a ^3bhomer of seed will yield but an ⁴ephah of grain.”

¹¹Woe to those who rise early in the morning that they may pursue ^astrong drink,

Who stay up late in the evening that wine may inflame them!

¹²And their banquets are accompanied by lyre and ^aharp, by tambourine and flute, and by wine;

But they ^bdo not look upon the deeds of Yahweh,

Nor do they see the work of His hands.

¹³Therefore My people go into exile for their ^alack of knowledge;

And ¹their ^bhonorable men are famished,

And their multitude is parched with thirst.

¹⁴Therefore ^aSheol has enlarged its ¹throat and opened its mouth without limit;

And ²Jerusalem’s majesty, her multitude, her rumbling, and the exultant within her, descend into it.

¹⁵So the common man will be bowed down and the man of importance will be made low,

^aThe eyes of the lofty also will be made low.

¹⁶But ^aYahweh of hosts will be ^blofty in judgment,

And the holy God will show Himself ^choly in righteousness.

^17aThen the lambs will graze as in their pasture,

And sojourners will eat in the waste places of the ¹wealthy.