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Isaiah - ch 5 v 1 - 20

  1. Let me sing for my well beloved a song of my beloved about his vineyard. My beloved had a vineyard on a very fruitful hill.
  2. He dug it up, gathered out its stones, planted it with the choicest vine, built a tower in its midst, and also cut out a winepress therein. He looked for it to yield grapes, but it yielded wild grapes.
  3. "Now, inhabitants of Jerusalem and men of Judah, please judge between me and my vineyard.
  4. What could have been done more to my vineyard, that I have not done in it? Why, when I looked for it to yield grapes, did it yield wild grapes?
  5. Now I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard. I will take away its hedge, and it will be eaten up. I will break down its wall of it, and it will be trampled down.
  6. I will lay it a wasteland. It won't be pruned nor hoed, but it will grow briers and thorns. I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain on it."
  7. For the vineyard of Yahweh of Armies is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasant plant: and he looked for justice, but, behold, oppression; for righteousness, but, behold, a cry of distress.
  8. Woe to those who join house to house, who lay field to field, until there is no room, and you are made to dwell alone in the midst of the land!
  9. In my ears, Yahweh of Armies says: "Surely many houses will be desolate, even great and beautiful, unoccupied.
  10. For ten acres1 of vineyard shall yield one bath,2 and a homer3 of seed shall yield an ephah.4"
  11. Woe to those who rise up early in the morning, that they may follow strong drink; who stay late into the night, until wine inflames them!
  12. The harp, lyre, tambourine, and flute, with wine, are at their feasts; but they don't regard the work of Yahweh, neither have they considered the operation of his hands.
  13. Therefore my people go into captivity for lack of knowledge. Their honorable men are famished, and their multitudes are parched with thirst.
  14. Therefore Sheol5 has enlarged its desire, and opened its mouth without measure; and their glory, their multitude, their pomp, and he who rejoices among them, descend into it.
  15. So man is brought low, mankind is humbled, and the eyes of the arrogant ones are humbled;
  16. but Yahweh of Armies is exalted in justice, and God the Holy One is sanctified in righteousness.
  17. Then the lambs will graze as in their pasture, and strangers will eat the ruins of the rich.
  18. Woe to those who draw iniquity with cords of falsehood, and wickedness as with cart rope;
  19. Who say, "Let him make speed, let him hasten his work, that we may see it; and let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel draw near and come, that we may know it!"
  20. Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil; who put darkness for light, and light for darkness; who put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!
  1. literally, ten yokes, or the amount of land that ten yokes of oxen can plow in one day, which is about 10 acres or 4 hectares.
  2. 1 bath is about 22 litres, 5.8 U. S. gallons, or 4.8 imperial gallons
  3. 1 homer is about 220 litres or 6 bushels
  4. 1 ephah is about 22 litres or 0.6 bushels or about 2 pecks)--only one tenth of what was sown.
  5. Sheol is the place of the dead.
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