Isaiah 5

God’s Disappointing Vineyard

5Now let me sing to my Well-beloved A song of my Beloved regarding His vineyard: My Well-beloved has a vineyard On a very fruitful hill.H7891H3039H7892H1730H3754H3039H3754H1121H8081H71612He dug it up and cleared out its stones, And planted it with the choicest vine. He built a tower in its midst, And also made a winepress in it; So He expected it to bring forth good grapes, But it brought forth wild grapes.H5823H5619H5193H8321H1129H4026H8432H2672H3342H6960H6213H6025H6213H8913"And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem and men of Judah, Judge, please, between Me and My vineyard.H3427H3389H376H3063H8199H37544What more could have been done to My vineyard That I have not done in it? Why then, when I expected it to bring forth good grapes, Did it bring forth wild grapes?H6213H3754H6213H4069H6960H6213H6025H6213H8915And now, please let Me tell you what I will do to My vineyard: I will take away its hedge, and it shall be burned; And break down its wall, and it shall be trampled down.H3045H6213H3754H5493H4881H1197H6555H1447H48236I will lay it waste; It shall not be pruned or dug, But there shall come up briers and thorns. I will also command the clouds That they rain no rain on it."H7896H1326H2168H5737H5927H8068H7898H6680H5645H4305H43067For the vineyard of the LORD of hosts is the house of Israel, And the men of Judah are His pleasant plant. He looked for justice, but behold, oppression; For righteousness, but behold, a cry for help.H3754H3068H6635H1004H3478H376H3063H8191H5194H6960H4941H4939H6666H6818

Impending Judgment on Excesses

8Woe to those who join house to house; They add field to field, Till there is no place Where they may dwell alone in the midst of the land!H1945H5060H1004H1004H7126H7704H7704H657H4725H3427H7130H7769In my hearing the LORD of hosts said, "Truly, many houses shall be desolate, Great and beautiful ones, without inhabitant.H241H3068H6635H3808H7227H1004H8047H1419H2896H342710For ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, And a homer of seed shall yield one ephah."H3588H6235H6776H3754H6213H259H1324H2233H2563H6213H37411Woe to those who rise early in the morning, That they may follow intoxicating drink; Who continue until night, till wine inflames them!H1945H7925H1242H7291H7941H309H5399H3196H181412The harp and the strings, The tambourine and flute, And wine are in their feasts; But they do not regard the work of the LORD, Nor consider the operation of His hands.H3658H5035H8596H2485H3196H4960H5027H6467H3068H7200H4639H302713Therefore my people have gone into captivity, Because they have no knowledge; Their honorable men are famished, And their multitude dried up with thirst.H5971H1540H1847H3519H4962H7458H1995H6704H677214Therefore 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.H7585H7337H5315H6473H6310H2706H1926H1995H7588H5938H338115People shall be brought down, Each man shall be humbled, And the eyes of the lofty shall be humbled.H120H7817H376H8213H5869H1364H821316But the LORD of hosts shall be exalted in judgment, And God who is holy shall be hallowed in righteousness.H3068H6635H1361H4941H410H6918H6942H666617Then the lambs shall feed in their pasture, And in the waste places of the fat ones strangers shall eat.H3532H7462H1699H2723H4220H1481H39818Woe to those who draw iniquity with cords of vanity, And sin as if with a cart rope;H1945H4900H5771H2256H7723H2403H5699H568819That say, "Let Him make speed and 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."H559H4116H2363H4639H7200H6098H6918H3478H7126H935H304520Woe 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!H1945H559H7451H2896H2896H7451H7760H2822H216H216H2822H7760H4751H4966H4966H475121Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes, And prudent in their own sight!H1945H2450H5869H995H644022Woe to men mighty at drinking wine, Woe to men valiant for mixing intoxicating drink,H1945H1368H8354H3196H582H2428H4537H794123Who justify the wicked for a bribe, And take away justice from the righteous man!H6663H7563H6118H7810H5493H6666H666224Therefore, as the fire devours the stubble, And the flame consumes the chaff, So their root will be as rottenness, And their blossom will ascend like dust; Because they have rejected the law of the LORD of hosts, And despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.H784H398H7179H3956H3852H7503H2842H8328H4716H6525H5927H80H3988H8451H3068H6635H5006H565H6918H347825Therefore the anger of the LORD is aroused against His people; He has stretched out His hand against them And stricken them, And the hills trembled. Their carcasses were as refuse in the midst of the streets. For all this His anger is not turned away, But His hand is stretched out still.H639H3068H2734H5971H5186H3027H5221H2022H7264H5038H5478H7130H2351H639H7725H3027H518626He will lift up a banner to the nations from afar, And will whistle to them from the end of the earth; Surely they shall come with speed, swiftly.H5375H5251H1471H7350H8319H7097H776H935H4120H703127No one will be weary or stumble among them, No one will slumber or sleep; Nor will the belt on their loins be loosed, Nor the strap of their sandals be broken;H5889H3782H5123H3462H232H2504H6605H8288H5275H542328Whose arrows are sharp, And all their bows bent; Their horses' hooves will seem like flint, And their wheels like a whirlwind.H2671H8150H7198H1869H5483H6541H2803H6862H1534H549229Their roaring will be like a lion, They will roar like young lions; Yes, they will roar And lay hold of the prey; They will carry it away safely, And no one will deliver.H7581H3833H7580H7580H3715H5098H270H2964H6403H533730In that day they will roar against them Like the roaring of the sea. And if one looks to the land, Behold, darkness and sorrow; And the light is darkened by the clouds.H3117H5098H5100H3220H5027H776H2822H6862H216H2821H6183