Isaiah 5 Singing, pray, to My darling am I, a song of My affection for My vineyard:A vineyard becomes My darling's on a horn-like fertile hill, a stone dike am I placing around it, and a rampart I make,

CLV⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹ Singing, pray, to My darling am I, a song of My affection for My vineyard:A vineyard becomes My darling's on a horn-like fertile hill, a stone dike am I placing around it, and a rampart I make, ² and it is being cultivated and its stones thrown out. And it is being planted with a yellow muscat. And I am building a tower in its midst, and, moreover, a wine vat I hew in it, and I am expecting it to yield grapes, yet it is yielding stinking fruit? ³ And now, dweller of Jerusalem, and man of Judah, judge, pray, between Me and My vineyard, ⁴ what is there to do further for My vineyard, that I have not done for it? For what reason, when I expect it to yield grapes, yet it is yielding stinking fruit? ⁵ And now, pray, I shall make known to you what I will do to My vineyard:I will take away its hedge, and it comes to be consumed. I breach its stone dike, and it comes to be tramped." ⁶ And I am making My vineyard into a chaos, and it is not being pruned. And not being hoed, and up come buckthorn and spines. And I am instructing the thick clouds over it to keep from raining rain on it." ⁷ For the vineyard of Yahweh of hosts is the house of Israel, and each man of Judah His plant delectable. And He is expecting judgment, and behold! Transgression! Righteousness, and behold! A cry!" ⁸ Woe to those touching house to house, bringing field near to field unto the limits of a place! That from an associate they may withdraw it, and it causes you to dwell all alone within the land!" ⁹ For it is heard in the ears of Yahweh of hosts:"Would not many houses great and good come to desolation from having no dweller? ¹⁰ For ten acres of vineyard are yielding one bath, and a homer's seed is yielding an ephah." ¹¹ Woe! Early morning risers, pursuing an intoxicant! Delaying in the gloaming, wine is making them flare up." ¹² And coming are harp and zither, tambourine and flute. And wine is in their feasts. Yet at the contrivance of Yahweh they are not looking. And the doing of His hands they do not see." ¹³ Wherefore, My people are deported for failing to know Yahweh. And a lot become death-doomed from famine, and the throng is glazed with thirst." ¹⁴ Wherefore the unseen widens its greedy soul, and gapes its mouth for the decadent dole; and descend does its honorable and its throng, and its tumultuous and joyous into it." ¹⁵ And prostrating is the human, and abasing himself is the man, and the eyes of the lofty are lowering." ¹⁶ And lofty is Yahweh of hosts in judgment, and holy El is hallowed in righteousness." ¹⁷ And the lambs are grazed according to their menu, and on the deserted places wiped up the kids are eating." ¹⁸ Woe to those drawing depravity with cables of futility, and as with the traces of a car, their sin, ¹⁹ saying, "Let Him be hastening, hurrying His doing, that we may be seeing, and let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel be nearing and coming, that we may know." ²⁰ Woe to those saying for evil, good, and for good, evil, placing darkness for light and light for darkness, placing bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter!" ²¹ Woe to those wise in their own eyes, and in front of their own face have understanding!" ²² Woe to masters of wine drinking, and mortals valorous in blending an intoxicant, ²³ who justify the wicked as the consequence of a bribe, and the righteousness of the righteous are taking away from him." ²⁴ Wherefore, as a straw is devoured by a tongue of fire, and chaff in a blaze is collapsing, their root as if putrefied is becoming, and their bud as dust is ascending, for they reject the law of Yahweh of hosts, and the saying of the Holy One of Israel they spurn." ²⁵ Therefore the anger of Yahweh of hosts is hot among His people, and He is stretching out His hand over them, and smiting them. And disturbed are the chiefs, and their carcasses are becoming as sweepings within the streets. In all this His anger does not reverse, and His hand is outstretched still." ²⁶ And He lifts up a banner for nations from afar, and He hisses for one from the outmost part of the earth, and, behold! Hastily, fleetly is it coming." ²⁷ None is faint and none is stumbling in it. None is slumbering nor sleeping, nor is opened the belt of his loins, nor is pulled away the lacing of his sandals;" ²⁸ whose arrows are whetted, and all their bows are bent. The hoofs of his horses as rock are reckoned, and his chariot wheels as a sweeping whirlwind." ²⁹ Its roaring is like the parent lion's; and the tumult like the sheltered lions, and he is growling and holding the prey, and there is no retrieving or rescuing." ³⁰ And he is growling over him in that day as the growling of the billowing sea. And behold! Darkness, distress, and the light is kept back in terror."