Isaiah 5:16–26

16 But the aLord of hosts will be bexalted in judgment,

And the holy God will show Himself choly in righteousness.

17 aThen the lambs will graze as in their pasture,

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

18 Woe to those who drag ainiquity with the cords of 1falsehood,

And sin as if with cart ropes;

19 aWho say, “Let Him make speed, let Him hasten His work, that we may see it;

And let the purpose of the Holy One of Israel draw near

And come to pass, that we may know it!”

20 Woe to those who acall evil good, and good evil;

Who 1bsubstitute darkness for light and light for darkness;

Who 1substitute bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter!

21 Woe to those who are awise in their own eyes

And clever in their own sight!

22 aWoe to those who are heroes in drinking wine

And valiant men in mixing strong drink,

23 aWho justify the wicked for a bribe,

And btake away the 1rights of the ones who are in the right!

24 Therefore, aas a tongue of fire consumes stubble

And dry grass collapses into the flame,

So their broot will become clike rot and their blossom 1blow away as dust;

For they have drejected the law of the Lord of hosts

And despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.

25 On this account the aanger of the Lord has burned against His people,

And He has stretched out His hand against them and struck them down.

And the bmountains quaked, and their ccorpses 1lay like refuse in the middle of the streets.

dFor all this His anger 2is not spent,

But His ehand is still stretched out.

26 He will also lift up a astandard to the 1distant nation,

And will bwhistle for it cfrom the ends of the earth;

And behold, it will dcome with speed swiftly.