Isaiah 5:8–17

Impending Judgment on Excesses

⁸Woe to those who ⁵join ^hhouse to house;

They add field to field,

Till there is no place

Where they may dwell alone in the midst of the land!

⁹ⁱIn my hearing the Lord of hosts said,

“Truly, many houses shall be desolate,

Great and beautiful ones, without inhabitant.

¹⁰For ten acres of vineyard shall yield one ^jbath, ⁶

And a ⁷homer of seed shall yield one ephah.”

^11kWoe to those who rise early in the morning,

That they may ⁸follow intoxicating drink;

Who continue until night, till wine inflames them!

^12lThe harp and the strings,

The tambourine and flute,

And wine are in their feasts;

But ^mthey do not regard the work of the Lord,

Nor consider the operation of His hands.

¹³ⁿTherefore my people have gone into captivity,

Because they have no ^oknowledge;

Their honorable men are famished,

And their multitude dried up with thirst.

¹⁴Therefore Sheol has enlarged itself

And opened its mouth beyond measure;

Their glory and their multitude and their pomp,

And he who is jubilant, shall descend into it.

¹⁵People shall be brought down,

^pEach man shall be humbled,

And the eyes of the lofty shall be humbled.

¹⁶But the Lord of hosts shall be ^qexalted in judgment,

And God who is holy shall be hallowed in righteousness.

¹⁷Then the lambs shall feed in their pasture,

And in the waste places of ^rthe ⁹fat ones strangers shall eat.