Isaiah 5:8–17

⁸How terrible it will be for you who add more houses to your houses

and more fields to your fields

until there is no room left for other people.

Then you are left alone in the land.

⁹The Lord All-Powerful said this to me:

“The fine houses will be destroyed;

the large and beautiful houses will be left empty.

¹⁰At that time a ten-acre vineyard will make only six gallons of wine,

and ten bushels of seed will grow only half a bushel of grain.”

¹¹How terrible it will be for people who rise early in the morning

to look for strong drink,

who stay awake late at night,

becoming drunk with wine.

¹²At their parties they have lyres, harps,

tambourines, flutes, and wine.

They don’t see what the Lord has done

or notice the work of his hands.

¹³So my people will be captured and taken away,

because they don’t really know me.

All the great people will die of hunger,

and the common people will die of thirst.

¹⁴So the place of the dead wants more and more people,

and it opens wide its mouth.

Jerusalem’s important people and common people will go down into it,

with their happy and noisy ones.

¹⁵So the common people and the great people will be brought down;

those who are proud will be humbled.

¹⁶The Lord All-Powerful will receive glory by judging fairly;

the holy God will show himself holy by doing what is right.

¹⁷Then the sheep will go anywhere they want,

and lambs will feed on the land that rich people once owned.