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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Isaiah 5
5
The Song of the Vineyard
1Let me sing for my beloved
a song of my love concerning his vineyard:
My beloved had a vineyard#Literally “A vineyard was for my beloved” on a fertile hill.#Literally “a horn of a son of olive oil.” The Hebrew for horn, qeren, sounds like the Hebrew for vineyard, kerem
2And he dug it and cleared it of stones,
and he planted it with choice vines,#Hebrew “vine”
and he built a watchtower in the middle of it,
and he even hewed out a wine vat in it,
and he waited for it to yield grapes—
but it yielded wild grapes.
3And now, inhabitants of Jerusalem
and men#Hebrew “man” of Judah, judge between me and my vineyard.
4What more was there to do for my vineyard that I have not done in it?
Why did I hope for it to yield grapes, and it yielded wild grapes?
5And now let me tell you what I myself am about to do to my vineyard.
I will remove its hedge, and it shall become a devastation.
I will break down its wall, and it shall become a trampling.
6And I will make it a wasteland;
it shall not be pruned and hoed,
and it shall be overgrown with briers#Hebrew “brier” and thornbushes.#Hebrew “thornbush”
And concerning the clouds, I will command them not to send#Literally “from sending” rain down upon it.
7For the vineyard of Yahweh of hosts is the house of Israel,
and the man#Or “people” of Judah is the plantation of his delight.
And he waited for justice,#The Hebrew word, mishpat, sounds like mishpakh in the next line
but look! Bloodshed!#The Hebrew word, mishpakh, sounds like mishpat in the previous line
For righteousness,#The Hebrew word, tsedaqah, sounds like tsa`aqah in the next line
but look! A cry of distress!#The Hebrew word, tsa`aqah, sounds like tsedaqah in the previous line
Woes on the Wicked
8Ah! Those who join#Literally “touch” house with house,
they join field together with field
until there is no place#Literally “an end of place”
and you are caused to dwell alone in the midst of the land.
9Yahweh of hosts said in my ears:
Surely#Literally “If not” many houses shall become a desolation,
large and beautiful ones without inhabitant.
10For ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath,#A bath is a liquid measure
and the seed of a homer will yield an ephah.#An ephah is a dry measure equal to one-tenth of a homer
11Ah! Those who rise early in the morning,
they pursue strong drink.
Those who linger in the evening,
wine inflames them.
12And there will be lyre and harp,
tambourine and flute,
and wine at their feasts,
but they do not look at the deeds#Hebrew “deed” of Yahweh,
and they do not see the work of his hands.
13Therefore my people will go into exile without knowledge,
and their#Hebrew “its” nobles#Hebrew “noble” will be men of hunger,
and their#Hebrew “its” multitude is parched with thirst.
14Therefore Sheol has enlarged its throat,
and it has opened wide its mouth without limit,
and her#That is, Jerusalem’s nobles#Hebrew “noble” will go down, and her multitude,
her tumult and those who revel in her.
15And humankind is bowed down,
and man is brought low,
and the eyes of the haughty are humiliated.
16But Yahweh of hosts is exalted by justice,
and the holy God shows himself holy by righteousness.
17And then the lambs will graze as in their pasture,
and fatlings, kids#Following the Septuagint, which reads the Hebrew grym (resident aliens) as gdym (young goats/sheep) will eat among the sites of ruins.#Literally “and ruins, fatlings, resident aliens, will eat”
18Ah! Those who drag iniquity along with the cords of falsehood
and sin as with rope of the cart,
19those who say,
“Let him make haste;
let him hurry his work
so that we may see it
and let it draw near
and let the plan of the holy one of Israel come
so that we may know it!”
20Ah! Those who call evil good and good evil,
those who put darkness for light and light for darkness,
those who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter!
21Ah! Those who are wise in their own eyes
and have understanding in their view!#Literally “before their faces”
22Ah! Heroes at drinking wine,
and men of capability at mixing strong drink!
23Those who acquit the guilty because of a bribe
and remove the justice of the innocent from him.
24Therefore as the tongue of fire devours the stubble,
and dry grass sinks down in the flame,
so their root will become like the stench,
and their blossom will go up like the dust.
For they have rejected the instruction of Yahweh of hosts,
and they have treated the word of the holy one of Israel with contempt.
25Therefore Yahweh’s wrath was kindled#Literally “the anger of Yahweh became hot” against his people,
and he stretched out his hand against them#Hebrew “it” and struck them,#Hebrew “it”
and the mountains quaked,
and their corpses#Hebrew “corpse” were like refuse in the middle of the streets.
Yahweh’s Outstretched Hand
In all of this his anger has not turned back,
and still his hand is stretched out.
26And he will raise a signal for a nation#The Hebrew is plural, but the following verses refer to the nation as singular from afar,
and he will whistle for it from the end of the earth.
And look! It comes quickly, swiftly!
27None is weary,
and none among him stumbles;
none slumbers and none sleeps.
And no loincloth on his waist is opened,
and no thong of his sandals is drawn away.
28Whose arrows are sharp,
and all of his bows are bent.
The hoofs of his horses are reckoned like flint,
and his wheels like the storm wind.
29His roaring is like the lion,
and he roars like young lions.
And he growls and seizes his prey,
and he carries it off,
and not one can rescue it.
30And he will roar over him on that day
like the roaring of the sea,
and if one looks to the land, look! Darkness! Distress!
And the light grows dark with its#Presumably the land’s clouds.
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