| Isa. 5:1 |
Let me sing of my Beloved, / A song of my Beloved concerning His vineyard. / My Beloved had a vineyard / On a fertile hill. |
| Isa. 5:2 |
And He dug it up and cleared away its stones, / And He planted it with the choicest vine. / Then He built a tower in the middle of it, / And hewed out a wine vat in it. / And He looked for it to produce grapes, / But it produced [only] wild grapes. |
| Isa. 5:3 |
So then, you inhabitants of Jerusalem / And you men of Judah, / Judge between Me / And My vineyard. |
| Isa. 5:4 |
What more could I have done for My vineyard / That I have not [already] done for it? / Why then, when I looked for it to produce grapes, / Did it produce [only] wild grapes? |
| Isa. 5:5 |
And now I will make known to you / What I will now do to My vineyard: / I will remove its hedge, and it will be consumed; / I will break down its wall, and it will become a trampled place. |
| Isa. 5:6 |
And I will make it a waste; / It will not be pruned, nor will it be hoed; / But thorns and thistles will come [on it.] And I will command the clouds / Not to rain upon it. |
| Isa. 5:7 |
For the vineyard of Jehovah of hosts is the house of Israel, / And the men of Judah, the plant of His good pleasure; / And He expected justice, but instead, bloodshed! / [He expected] righteousness, but instead, an outcry of distress! |
| Isa. 5:8 |
Woe to those who join house to house, / Who lay field to field, / Till there is no place left, / And you dwell alone in the midst of the land! |
| Isa. 5:9 |
In my ears Jehovah of hosts [has sworn:] / Many houses shall indeed become desolate; / Great ones and fine ones [shall be] without inhabitants. |
| Isa. 5:10 |
For ten acres of vineyard will produce a [mere] bath [of wine,] / And a homer of seed will produce an ephah [of grain.] |
| Isa. 5:11 |
Woe to those who rise early in the morning / That they may run after liquor, / To those who linger into the evening / That wine may inflame them! |
| Isa. 5:12 |
Lyre and harp, tambourine and flute, / And wine are [the essence of ] their banquets; / And they do not consider what has been done by Jehovah, / Nor do they regard the work of His hands. |
| Isa. 5:13 |
Hence, my people go into exile / For lack of knowledge; / Their nobility [become] famished men, / And their multitudes, parched with thirst. |
| Isa. 5:14 |
Hence, Sheol enlarges its appetite / And opens its mouth wide, without limit, / And [Jerusalem's] splendor descends, and her din / And her uproar and the jubilant within her. |
| Isa. 5:15 |
Thus the ordinary man is humbled, and the man of distinction is abased; / And the eyes of the haughty are abased; |
| Isa. 5:16 |
But Jehovah of hosts is exalted in judgment, / And the holy God shows Himself holy in righteousness. |
| Isa. 5:17 |
Then lambs will graze [there] as in their pasture, / And strangers will eat the wastelands of fat men. |
| Isa. 5:18 |
Woe to those who draw iniquity with ropes of vanity, / And sin as with cart ropes; |
| Isa. 5:19 |
Who say, He should hurry up; / He should hasten His work, / So that we may see [it;] / And the counsel of the Holy One of Israel / Should draw near and happen, / So that we may know [it!] |
| Isa. 5:20 |
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! |
| Isa. 5:21 |
Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes, / And prudent in their own sight! |
| Isa. 5:22 |
Woe to those who are heroes in drinking wine, / And men of valor in mixing liquor; |
| Isa. 5:23 |
Who acquit the criminal as a result of a bribe, / But refuse righteousness to the righteous! |
| Isa. 5:24 |
Therefore as a tongue of fire consumes the stubble, / And the chaff sinks in flames, / Their root will be like decay, / And their bud will disappear like dust; / For they have rejected the instruction of Jehovah of hosts / And despised the speaking of the Holy One of Israel. |
| Isa. 5:25 |
For this reason the anger of Jehovah burns against His people, / And He stretches out His hand over them and strikes them. / And the mountains quake, and their corpses are / Like garbage in the middle of the street. / In spite of all this His anger is not turned away; / Rather, His hand is still stretched out. |
| Isa. 5:26 |
He also lifts up a standard to a distant nation, / And whistles to it from the ends of the earth; / And indeed it comes with swift speed. |
| Isa. 5:27 |
None [of them] is weary, and none stumbles among them; / No one slumbers or sleeps; / And their belts are not loosened at their waists, / Nor are their sandal thongs broken. |
| Isa. 5:28 |
The arrows of these are sharpened, / And all their bows are drawn; / The hooves of their horses are considered to be like flint, / And their chariot wheels like a whirlwind. |
| Isa. 5:29 |
Their roar is like a lion's, / And they roar like young lions; / When they growl and seize prey, / They carry [it] away safe, and there is none to rescue [it.] |
| Isa. 5:30 |
And they will growl over it in that day, / Like the roaring of the sea. / When one will look upon the land, indeed, there will be darkness [and] distress, / And the light will be darkened with its clouds. |