5Let me sing for my beloved my love-song concerning his vineyard: My beloved had a vineyard on a very fertile hill.H7891H3039H7892H1730H3754H3039H3754H1121H8081H71612He dug it and cleared it of stones, and planted it with choice vines; he built a watchtower in the midst of it, and hewed out a wine vat in it; he expected it to yield grapes, but it yielded wild grapes.H5823H5619H5193H8321H1129H4026H8432H2672H3342H6960H6213H6025H6213H8913And now, inhabitants of Jerusalem and people of Judah, judge between me and my vineyard.H3427H3389H376H3063H8199H37544What more was there to do for my vineyard that I have not done in it? When I expected it to yield grapes, why did it yield wild grapes?H6213H3754H6213H4069H6960H6213H6025H6213H8915And now I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard. I will remove its hedge, and it shall be devoured; I will break down its wall, and it shall be trampled down.H3045H6213H3754H5493H4881H1197H6555H1447H48236I will make it a waste; it shall not be pruned or hoed, and it shall be overgrown with briers and thorns; I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it.H7896H1326H2168H5737H5927H8068H7898H6680H5645H4305H43067For the vineyard of the LORD of hosts is the house of Israel, and the people of Judah are his pleasant planting; he expected justice, but saw bloodshed; righteousness, but heard a cry!H3754H3068H6635H1004H3478H376H3063H8191H5194H6960H4941H4939H6666H68188Ah, you who join house to house, who add field to field, until there is room for no one but you, and you are left to live alone in the midst of the land!H1945H5060H1004H1004H7126H7704H7704H657H4725H3427H7130H7769The LORD of hosts has sworn in my hearing: Surely many houses shall be desolate, large and beautiful houses, without inhabitant.H241H3068H6635H3808H7227H1004H8047H1419H2896H342710For ten acres of vineyard shall yield but one bath, and a homer of seed shall yield a mere ephah.H3588H6235H6776H3754H6213H259H1324H2233H2563H6213H37411Ah, you who rise early in the morning in pursuit of strong drink, who linger in the evening to be inflamed by wine,H1945H7925H1242H7291H7941H309H5399H3196H181412whose feasts consist of lyre and harp, tambourine and flute and wine, but who do not regard the deeds of the LORD, or see the work of his hands!H3658H5035H8596H2485H3196H4960H5027H6467H3068H7200H4639H302713Therefore my people go into exile without knowledge; their nobles are dying of hunger, and their multitude is parched with thirst.H5971H1540H1847H3519H4962H7458H1995H6704H677214Therefore Sheol has enlarged its appetite and opened its mouth beyond measure; the nobility of Jerusalem and her multitude go down, her throng and all who exult in her.H7585H7337H5315H6473H6310H2706H1926H1995H7588H5938H338115People are bowed down, everyone is brought low, and the eyes of the haughty are humbled.H120H7817H376H8213H5869H1364H821316But the LORD of hosts is exalted by justice, and the Holy God shows himself holy by righteousness.H3068H6635H1361H4941H410H6918H6942H666617Then the lambs shall graze as in their pasture, fatlings and kids shall feed among the ruins.H3532H7462H1699H2723H4220H1481H39818Ah, you who drag iniquity along with cords of falsehood, who drag sin along as with cart ropes,H1945H4900H5771H2256H7723H2403H5699H568819who say, "Let him make haste, let him speed his work that we may see it; let the plan of the Holy One of Israel hasten to fulfillment, that we may know it!"H559H4116H2363H4639H7200H6098H6918H3478H7126H935H304520Ah, you 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!H1945H559H7451H2896H2896H7451H7760H2822H216H216H2822H7760H4751H4966H4966H475121Ah, you who are wise in your own eyes, and shrewd in your own sight!H1945H2450H5869H995H644022Ah, you who are heroes in drinking wine and valiant at mixing drink,H1945H1368H8354H3196H582H2428H4537H794123who acquit the guilty for a bribe, and deprive the innocent of their rights!H6663H7563H6118H7810H5493H6666H666224Therefore, as the tongue of fire devours the stubble, and as dry grass sinks down in the flame, so their root will become rotten, and their blossom go up like dust; for they have rejected the instruction of the LORD of hosts, and have despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.H784H398H7179H3956H3852H7503H2842H8328H4716H6525H5927H80H3988H8451H3068H6635H5006H565H6918H347825Therefore the anger of the LORD was kindled against his people, and he stretched out his hand against them and struck them; the mountains quaked, and their corpses were like refuse in the streets. For all this his anger has not turned away, and his hand is stretched out still.H639H3068H2734H5971H5186H3027H5221H2022H7264H5038H5478H7130H2351H639H7725H3027H518626He will raise a signal for a nation far away, and whistle for a people at the ends of the earth; Here they come, swiftly, speedily!H5375H5251H1471H7350H8319H7097H776H935H4120H703127None of them is weary, none stumbles, none slumbers or sleeps, not a loincloth is loose, not a sandal-thong broken;H5889H3782H5123H3462H232H2504H6605H8288H5275H542328their arrows are sharp, all their bows bent, their horses' hoofs seem like flint, and their wheels like the whirlwind.H2671H8150H7198H1869H5483H6541H2803H6862H1534H549229Their roaring is like a lion, like young lions they roar; they growl and seize their prey, they carry it off, and no one can rescue.H7581H3833H7580H7580H3715H5098H270H2964H6403H533730They will roar over it on that day, like the roaring of the sea. And if one look to the land—only darkness and distress; and the light grows dark with clouds.H3117H5098H5100H3220H5027H776H2822H6862H216H2821H6183
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