Isaiah - Chapter 5 | King James Version (KJV)

  • 1. Now will I sing to my wellbeloved a song of my beloved touching his vineyard. My wellbeloved hath a vineyard in a very fruitful hill:
  • 2. And he fenced it, and gathered out the stones thereof, and planted it with the choicest vine, and built a tower in the midst of it, and also made a winepress therein: and he looked that it should bring forth grapes, and it brought forth wild grapes.
  • 3. And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem, and men of Judah, judge, I pray you, betwixt me and my vineyard.
  • 4. What could have been done more to my vineyard, that I have not done in it? wherefore, when I looked that it should bring forth grapes, brought it forth wild grapes?
  • 5. And now go to; I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard: I will take away the hedge thereof, and it shall be eaten up; {cf15I and} break down the wall thereof, and it shall be trodden down:
  • 6. And I will lay it waste: it shall not be pruned, nor digged; but there shall come up briers and thorns: I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it.
  • 7. For the vineyard of the LORD of hosts {cf15I is} the house of Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasant plant: and he looked for judgment, but behold oppression; for righteousness, but behold a cry.
  • 8. Woe unto them that join house to house, {cf15I that} lay field to field, till {cf15I there be} no place, that they may be placed alone in the midst of the earth!
  • 9. In mine ears {cf15I said} the LORD of hosts, Of a truth many houses shall be desolate, {cf15I even} great and fair, without inhabitant.
  • 10. Yea, ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and the seed of an homer shall yield an ephah.
  • 11. Woe unto them that rise up early in the morning, {cf15I that} they may follow strong drink; that continue until night, {cf15I till} wine inflame them!
  • 12. And the harp, and the viol, the tabret, and pipe, and wine, are in their feasts: but they regard not the work of the LORD, neither consider the operation of his hands.
  • 13. Therefore my people are gone into captivity, because {cf15I they have} no knowledge: and their honourable men {cf15I are} famished, and their multitude dried up with thirst.
  • 14. Therefore hell hath enlarged herself, and opened her mouth without measure: and their glory, and their multitude, and their pomp, and he that rejoiceth, shall descend into it.
  • 15. And the mean man shall be brought down, and the mighty man shall be humbled, and the eyes of the lofty shall be humbled:
  • 16. But the LORD of hosts shall be exalted in judgment, and God that is holy shall be sanctified in righteousness.
  • 17. Then shall the lambs feed after their manner, and the waste places of the fat ones shall strangers eat.
  • 18. Woe unto them that draw iniquity with cords of vanity, and sin as it were with a cart rope:
  • 19. That say, Let him make speed, {cf15I and} hasten his work, that we may see {cf15I it}: and let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel draw nigh and come, that we may know {cf15I it}!
  • 20. Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!
  • 21. Woe unto {cf15I them that are} wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight!
  • 22. Woe unto {cf15I them that are} mighty to drink wine, and men of strength to mingle strong drink:
  • 23. Which justify the wicked for reward, and take away the righteousness of the righteous from him!
  • 24. Therefore as the fire devoureth the stubble, and the flame consumeth the chaff, {cf15I so} their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust: because they have cast away the law of the LORD of hosts, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.
  • 25. Therefore is the anger of the LORD kindled against his people, and he hath stretched forth his hand against them, and hath smitten them: and the hills did tremble, and their carcases {cf15I were} torn in the midst of the streets. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand {cf15I is} stretched out still.
  • 26. And he will lift up an ensign to the nations from far, and will hiss unto them from the end of the earth: and, behold, they shall come with speed swiftly:
  • 27. None shall be weary nor stumble among them; none shall slumber nor sleep; neither shall the girdle of their loins be loosed, nor the latchet of their shoes be broken:
  • 28. Whose arrows {cf15I are} sharp, and all their bows bent, their horses' hoofs shall be counted like flint, and their wheels like a whirlwind:
  • 29. Their roaring {cf15I shall be} like a lion, they shall roar like young lions: yea, they shall roar, and lay hold of the prey, and shall carry {cf15I it} away safe, and none shall deliver {cf15I it}.
  • 30. And in that day they shall roar against them like the roaring of the sea: and if {cf15I one} look unto the land, behold darkness {cf15I and} sorrow, and the light is darkened in the heavens thereof.
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