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
1Let me sing for my well beloved a song of my beloved about his vineyard.
My beloved had a vineyard on a very fruitful hill.
2He dug it up,
gathered out its stones,
planted it with the choicest vine,
built a tower in the middle of it,
and also cut out a wine press in it.
He looked for it to yield grapes,
but it yielded wild grapes.
3“Now, inhabitants of Jerusalem and men of Judah,
please judge between me and my vineyard.
4What could have been done more to my vineyard, that I have not done in it?
Why, when I looked for it to yield grapes, did it yield wild grapes?
5Now I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard.
I will take away its hedge, and it will be eaten up.
I will break down its wall, and it will be trampled down.
6I will lay it a wasteland.
It won’t be pruned or hoed,
but it will grow briers and thorns.
I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain on it.”
7For the vineyard of Yahweh of Armies is the house of Israel,
and the men of Judah his pleasant plant.
He looked for justice, but behold, oppression,
for righteousness, but behold, a cry of distress.
8Woe to those who join house to house,
who lay field to field, until there is no room,
and you are made to dwell alone in the middle of the land!
9In my ears, Yahweh of Armies says: “Surely many houses will be desolate,
even great and beautiful, unoccupied.
10For ten acres#5:10 literally, ten yokes, or the amount of land that ten yokes of oxen can plow in one day, which is about 10 acres or 4 hectares. of vineyard shall yield one bath,#5:10 1 bath is about 22 liters or 5.8 U. S. gallons
and a homer#5:10 1 homer is about 220 liters or 6 bushels of seed shall yield an ephah.”#5:10 1 ephah is about 22 liters or 0.6 bushels or about 2 pecks—only one tenth of what was sown.
11Woe to those who rise up early in the morning, that they may follow strong drink,
who stay late into the night, until wine inflames them!
12The harp, lyre, tambourine, and flute, with wine, are at their feasts;
but they don’t respect the work of Yahweh,
neither have they considered the operation of his hands.
13Therefore my people go into captivity for lack of knowledge.
Their honorable men are famished,
and their multitudes are parched with thirst.
14Therefore Sheol#5:14 Sheol is the place of the dead. has enlarged its desire,
and opened its mouth without measure;
and their glory, their multitude, their pomp, and he who rejoices among them, descend into it.
15So man is brought low,
mankind is humbled,
and the eyes of the arrogant ones are humbled;
16but Yahweh of Armies is exalted in justice,
and God the Holy One is sanctified in righteousness.
17Then the lambs will graze as in their pasture,
and strangers will eat the ruins of the rich.
18Woe to those who draw iniquity with cords of falsehood,
and wickedness as with cart rope,
19who say, “Let him make haste, let him hasten his work, that we may see it;
let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel draw near and come,
that we may know it!”
20Woe 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!
21Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes,
and prudent in their own sight!
22Woe to those who are mighty to drink wine,
and champions at mixing strong drink;
23who acquit the guilty for a bribe,
but deny justice for the innocent!
24Therefore as the tongue of fire devours the stubble,
and as the dry grass sinks down in the flame,
so their root shall be as rottenness,
and their blossom shall go up as dust,
because they have rejected the law of Yahweh of Armies,
and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.
25Therefore Yahweh’s anger burns against his people,
and he has stretched out his hand against them and has struck them.
The mountains tremble,
and their dead bodies are as refuse in the middle of the streets.
For all this, his anger is not turned away,
but his hand is still stretched out.
26He will lift up a banner to the nations from far away,
and he will whistle for them from the end of the earth.
Behold, they will come speedily and swiftly.
27No one shall be weary nor stumble among them;
no one shall slumber nor sleep,
neither shall the belt of their waist be untied,
nor the strap of their sandals be broken,
28whose arrows are sharp,
and all their bows bent.
Their horses’ hoofs will be like flint,
and their wheels like a whirlwind.
29Their roaring will be like a lioness.
They will roar like young lions.
Yes, they shall roar,
and seize their prey and carry it off,
and there will be no one to deliver.
30They will roar against them in that day like the roaring of the sea.
If one looks to the land, behold, darkness and distress.
The light is darkened in its clouds.
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