Isaiah 5
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1Let me sing now to my Beloved,
A song of my Beloved touching his vineyard.
My Beloved had a vineyard
Upon a very fruitful hill.
2He digged it, and cleared it of stones,
And planted it with the choicest vine,
And he built a tower in the midst of it,
And also hewed out a wine-vat therein;
And he expected, that it should bring forth grapes;
But it brought forth baneful berries.
3And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem, and ye men of Judah,
Judge, I pray you, between me and my vineyard.
4What could have been done more to my vineyard,
Than I have done unto it?
Why, when I expected that it should bring forth grapes,
Brought it forth baneful berries?
5But come now, and I will make known unto you
What I will do unto my vineyard
I will remove its hedge, and it shall be eaten up;
I will demolish its wall, and it shall be trodden down.
6And I will make it a waste:
It shall not be pruned, neither shall it be weeded; But there shall come up briers and thorns;
And to the clouds I will give command,
That they rain no rain upon it.
7For the vineyard of Jehovah of hosts is the house of Israel;
And the men of Judah his pleasant plant:
He looked for judgment, and behold a shedding of blood;
For justice, and behold a cry.
8Wo unto them, who join house to house;
Who lay field unto field together;
Until there be no more room left,
And ye dwell by yourselves alone in the midst of the land.
9In my ears hath Jehovah of hosts revealed it:
Surely, the many houses shall become a desolation;
The great and the fair ones, no one shall inhabit.
10Yea, ten acres of vineyard shall yield but one bath,
And a chomer of seed shall produce an ephah.
11Wo unto them that rise up early in the morning to follow after strong drink;
Who sit late in the evening, that the wine may inflame them:
12And the lyre, and the harp, the tabor, and the pipe,
And wine, are in their feasts;
But the work of Jehovah they regard not;
And the operation of his hands they do not perceive.
13Therefore my people goeth into captivity by surprise;
Their nobles die with hunger;
And their multitude are parched up with thirst.
14Therefore bath Hades opened its jaws with greediness;
And hath stretched open its mouth without measure:
And down go her nobility, and her multitude;
And her busy throng, and all that exult in her.
15And the mean man shall be bowed down, and the great man shall be humbled;
And the eyes of the haughty are humbled.
16But Jehovah of hosts shall be exalted in judgment;
And the Holy God shall be sanctified in righteousness.
17Then shall the sheep feed, as upon their own pasture; And in the desolate possessions of the rich shall strange flocks graze.
18Wo unto them that draw punishment along with a rope of vice;
And destruction as with a cart-rope.
19Who 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 to pass, that we may know it.
20Wo unto them that call evil good, and good evil;
Who put darkness for light, and light for darkness;
Who put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter.
21Wo unto them that are wise in their own eyes;
And prudent in their own conceit.
22Wo unto them that are powerful to drink wine;
And men of might to mingle strong drink.
23Who justify the guilty for reward,
And take away the righteousness of the righteous from him.
24Therefore as the flame of fire devoureth the stubble,
And as the dry grass sinketh down into the flame;
So their root shall be as rottenness,
And their blossom shall go up like the dust:
Because they have despised the law of Jehovah of hosts;
And scornfully rejected the word of the Holy One of Israel.
25Therefore is the anger of Jehovah kindled against his people;
And he hath stretched out his hand against them,
And smitten them; and the mountains trembled;
And their carcases became as the mire in the midst of the streets.
For all this his anger is not turned away;
But his hand is still stretched out.
26And he will erect a standard for the nations afar off;
And he will hiss unto them from the end of the earth;
And behold, with speed swiftly shall they come.
27None among them is faint, and none stumbleth;
No one slumbereth, and no one sleepeth:
Neither is the girdle of their loins loosed,
Nor the latchet of their shoes torn off.
28Whose arrows are sharpened,
And all their bows are bent:
The hoofs of their horses are counted like unto the flint;
And their wheels unto the whirlwind.
29Their roaring is like that of the lioness;
They roar like the young lions:
They rage, and seize the prey;
They bear it away, and no one doth rescue.
30In that day shall they roar against them, like the roaring of the sea;
And if one look unto the land, behold there darkness;
Perplexity mid light;
It becomes dark in the clouds thereof.
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Translated by Rev John Jones (Ioan Tegid).Published at Oxford in 1830, second edition 1842.
Isaiah 5
5
Song of the Vineyard
1I will sing about the one I love,
a song about my loved one’s vineyard: # Ps 80:8; Jr12:10; Mt 21:33; Lk 20:9
The one I love had a vineyard
on a very fertile hill.
2He broke up the soil, cleared it of stones,
and planted it with the finest vines. # Jr 2:21
He built a tower in the middle of it
and even dug out a winepress there.
He expected # Is 40:31 it to yield good grapes,
but it yielded worthless grapes. # Mt 21:19; Mk 11:13; Lk 13:6
3So now, residents of Jerusalem
and men of Judah,
please judge between Me
and My vineyard.
4What more could I have done for My vineyard
than I did? # Mc 6:3-4; Mt 23:37
Why, when I expected a yield of good grapes,
did it yield worthless grapes?
5Now I will tell you
what I am about to do to My vineyard:
I will remove its hedge, # Ps 89:40; Jr 5:10
and it will be consumed;
I will tear down its wall, # Ps 80:12
and it will be trampled.
6I will make it a wasteland. # 2Ch 36:19-21; Is 7:19-25; 24:1,3; 27:2-6; Jr 25:11
It will not be pruned or weeded;
thorns and briers will grow up. # Gn 3:18; Is 7:23-25; 9:18; 10:17; 27:4; 32:13
I will also give orders to the clouds
that rain should not fall on it.
7For the vineyard of the Lord of Hosts
is the house of Israel, # Ps 80:8-11
and the men # Lit man of Judah,
the plant He delighted in.
He looked for justice
but saw injustice,
for righteousness,
but heard cries of wretchedness.
Judah’s Sins Denounced
8Woe to those who add house to house # Jr 22:13-17; Mc 2:2; Hab 2:9-12
and join field to field
until there is no more room
and you alone are left in the land.
9I heard the Lord of Hosts say:
Indeed, many houses # Am 3:10,15 will become desolate,
grand and lovely ones without inhabitants.
10For a ten-acre # Lit ten-yoke vineyard will yield
only six gallons, # Lit one bath
and 10 bushels # Lit one homer of seed will yield
only one bushel. # Lit one ephah
11Woe to those who rise early in the morning
in pursuit of beer, # Lv 10:9; Nm 6:3; Dt 29:6; Jdg 13:4; Is 5:22; 24:9; 28:7; 56:12
who linger into the evening,
inflamed by wine.
12At their feasts they have lyre, harp,
tambourine, flute, and wine.
They do not perceive the Lord’s actions, # Dt 32:4; Jb 34:27; 36:24; Ps 28:5; 44:1; 64:9-10
and they do not see the work of His hands. # Ex 32:16; 34:10; Ps 8:3,6; 19:1; 92:4-5; Is 10:12; 29:23
13Therefore My people will go into exile
because they lack knowledge; # Is 1:3; 27:11; Hs 4:6; Lk 11:52; 19:42; 1Tm 1:13
her # Lit its dignitaries are starving,
and her # Lit its masses are parched with thirst.
14Therefore Sheol enlarges its throat
and opens wide its enormous jaws, # Pr 30:16; Hab 2:5
and down go Zion’s dignitaries, her masses,
her crowds, and those who carouse in her!
15Humanity is brought low, man is humbled,
and haughty eyes are humbled. # Is 2:9,11,17; 10:33
16But the Lord of Hosts is exalted by His justice, # Is 33:5,10
and the holy God # Is 6:3 is distinguished by righteousness. # Is 8:13; 29:23; 1Pt 3:15
17Lambs will graze
as if in # Syr reads graze in their own pastures, # Mc 2:12
and strangers # LXX reads sheep will eat
among the ruins of the rich.
18Woe to those who drag wickedness
with cords of deceit # Pr 5:22; Is 59:4-8; Jr 23:10-14
and pull sin along with cart ropes,
19to those who say:
“Let Him hurry up and do His work quickly
so that we can see it!
Let the plan # Jb 38:2; 42:3; Ps 33:11; 106:13; 107:11; Pr 19:21; Is 14:26; 19:17; 46:10-11 of the Holy One of Israel # Is 1:4 take place
so that we can know it! ”
20Woe to those who call evil good
and good evil, # Pr 17:15; Am 5:7; Mal 2:17
who substitute darkness for light
and light for darkness,
who substitute bitter for sweet
and sweet for bitter.
21Woe to those who are wise in their own opinion
and clever in their own sight. # Lit clever before their face # Pr 3:7; Rm 12:16; 1Co 3:18
22Woe to those who are heroes at drinking wine,
who are fearless at mixing beer, # Is 5:11
23who acquit the guilty for a bribe # Ex 23:8; Pr 17:15; Is 1:23; 33:15
and deprive the innocent of justice.
24Therefore, as a tongue of fire consumes straw
and as dry grass shrivels in the flame,
so their roots will become like something rotten
and their blossoms will blow away like dust,
for they have rejected # Is 8:6; 30:9,12; Am 2:4; Ac 13:41
the instruction of the Lord of Hosts,
and they have despised
the word of the Holy One of Israel. # Is 5:19; Jr 51:5
25Therefore the Lord’s anger burns # Nm 11:10,33; 32:10-13; Dt 6:15; Jos 7:1; 23:16; 2Kg 13:3; Ps 106:40 against His people.
He raised His hand against them and struck them;
the mountains quaked, # Am 1:1; Zch 14:5
and their corpses were like garbage in the streets.
In all this, His anger is not removed,
and His hand is still raised to strike. # Is 9:12,17,21; 10:4; 14:27
26He raises a signal flag for the distant nations # Is 10:5; 11:10,12; 13:2; 18:3
and whistles # Is 7:18; Zch 10:8 for them from the ends of the earth.
Look — how quickly and swiftly they come!
27None of them grows weary or stumbles; # 1Jn 2:10
no one slumbers or sleeps.
No belt is loose
and no sandal strap broken.
28Their arrows are sharpened,
and all their bows strung.
Their horses’ hooves are like flint;
their chariot wheels are like a whirlwind.
29Their roaring is like a lion’s; # Jdg 14:5; Hs 13:8; Jl 1:6; Nah 2:12-13
they roar like young lions; # Rv 9:17
they growl and seize their prey
and carry it off,
and no one can rescue it.
30On that day they will roar over it,
like the roaring of the sea.
When one looks at the land,
there will be darkness and distress;
light will be obscured by clouds. # Lit its clouds
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