Isaiah 5:8–17

Woes and Judgments

⁸Woe^j to you who add house to house

and join field to field^k

till no space is left

and you live alone in the land.

⁹The Lord Almighty^l has declared in my hearing:^m

“Surely the great houses will become desolate,ⁿ

the fine mansions left without occupants.

¹⁰A ten-acre vineyard will produce only a bath^a of wine;

a homer^b of seed will yield only an ephah^c of grain.”^o

¹¹Woe^p to those who rise early in the morning

to run after their drinks,

who stay up late at night

till they are inflamed with wine.^q

¹²They have harps and lyres at their banquets,

pipes^r and timbrels^s and wine,

but they have no regard^t for the deeds of the Lord,

no respect for the work of his hands.^u

¹³Therefore my people will go into exile^v

for lack of understanding;^w

those of high rank^x will die of hunger

and the common people will be parched with thirst.^y

¹⁴Therefore Death^z expands its jaws,

opening wide its mouth;^a

into it will descend their nobles and masses

with all their brawlers and revelers.^b

¹⁵So people will be brought low^c

and everyone humbled,^d

the eyes of the arrogant^e humbled.

¹⁶But the Lord Almighty will be exalted^f by his justice,^g

and the holy God will be proved holy^h by his righteous acts.

¹⁷Then sheep will graze as in their own pasture;ⁱ

lambs will feed^d among the ruins of the rich.