Isaiah 5
1Let 2 My beloved had a vineyard on a very fruitful hill. 1
2He 2 gathered out its stones, 2 planted it with the choicest vine, 2 built a tower in the middle of it, 2 and also cut out a wine press in it. 1 He looked for it to yield grapes, 2 but it yielded wild grapes. 1
3“ Now 2 please judge between me and my vineyard. 1
4What 2 Why, when I looked for it to yield grapes, did it yield wild grapes? 1
5Now 2 I will take away its hedge, and it will be eaten up. 2 I will break down its wall, and it will be trampled down. 1
6I 2 It won’t be pruned or hoed, 2 but it will grow briers and thorns. 2 I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain on it.” 1
7For 2 and the men of Judah his pleasant plant. 2 He looked for justice, but behold, oppression, 2 for righteousness, but behold, a cry of distress. 1
8Woe 2 who lay field to field, until there is no room, 2 and you are made to dwell alone in the middle of the land! 1
9In 2 even great and beautiful, unoccupied. 1
10For 2 and a homer + 5:10 1 homer is about 220 liters or 6 bushels of seed shall yield an efah.” + 5:10 1 efah is about 22 liters or 0.6 bushels or about 2 pecks—only one tenth of what was sown. 1
11Woe 2 who stay late into the night, until wine inflames them! 1
12The 2 but they don’t respect the work of the LORD, 2 neither have they considered the operation of his hands. 1
13Therefore 2 Their honorable men are famished, 2 and their multitudes are parched with thirst. 1
14Therefore 2 and opened its mouth without measure; 2 and their glory, their multitude, their pomp, and he who rejoices among them, descend into it. 1
15So man 2 mankind is humbled, 2 and the eyes of the arrogant ones are humbled; 1
16but 2 and God the Holy One is sanctified in righteousness. 1
17Then the 2 and strangers will eat the ruins of the rich. 1
18Woe 2 and wickedness as with cart rope, 1
19who 2 let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel draw near and come, 2 that we may know it!” 1
20Woe 2 who put darkness for light, 2 and light for darkness; 1 who put bitter for sweet, 2 and sweet for bitter! 1
21Woe 2 and prudent in their own sight! 1
22Woe 2 and champions at mixing strong drink; 1
23who 2 but deny justice for the innocent! 1
24Therefore 2 and as the dry grass sinks down in the flame, 2 so their root shall be as rottenness, 2 and their blossom shall go up as dust, 1 because they have rejected the law of the LORD of Hosts, 2 and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel. 1
25Therefore 2 and he has stretched out his hand against them and has struck them. 1 The mountains tremble, 2 and their dead bodies are as refuse in the middle of the streets. 1 For all this, his anger is not turned away, 2 but his hand is still stretched out. 1
26He 2 and he will whistle for them from the end of the earth. 2 Behold, they will come speedily and swiftly. 1
27No 2 no one shall slumber nor sleep, 2 neither shall the belt of their waist be untied, 2 nor the strap of their sandals be broken, 1
28whose 2 and all their bows bent. 1 Their horses’ hoofs will be like flint, 2 and their wheels like a whirlwind. 1
29Their 2 They will roar like young lions. 1 Yes, they shall roar, 2 and seize their prey and carry it off, 2 and there will be no one to deliver. 1
30They 2 If one looks to the land, behold, darkness and distress. 2 The light is darkened in its clouds.