Isaiah:5:8-30

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* Woe to them that join house to house , and add field to field , that they may take away something of their neighbor ’s : will ye dwell alone upon the land ? * For these things have reached the ears of the Lord of hosts : for though many houses should be built , many and fair houses shall be desolate , and there shall be no inhabitants in them . * For where ten yoke of oxen plough the land shall yield one jar-full , and he that sows six homers shall produce three measures . * Woe to them that rise up in the morning , and follow strong drink ; who wait at it till evening : for the wine shall inflame them . * For they drink wine with harp , and psaltery , and drums , and pipes : but they regard not the works of the Lord , and consider not the works of his hands . * Therefore my people have been taken captive , because they know not the Lord : and there has been a multitude of dead bodies , because of hunger and of thirst for water . * Therefore (note :)Gr . hades (:note ) hell has enlarged its desire and opened its mouth without ceasing : and her glorious and great , and her rich and her pestilent men shall go down into it . * And the mean man shall be brought low , and the great man shall be disgraced , and the lofty eyes shall be brought low . * But the Lord of hosts shall be exalted in judgement , and the holy God shall be glorified in righteousness . * And they that were spoiled shall be fed as bulls , and lambs shall feed on the waste places of them that are taken away . * Woe to them that draw sins to them as with a long rope , and iniquities as with a thong of the heifer ’s yoke : * who say , Let him speedily hasten what he will do , that we may see it : and let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel come , that we may know it . * Woe to them that call evil good , and good evil ; who make darkness light , and light darkness ; who make bitter sweet , and sweet bitter . * Woe to them that are wise in their own conceit , and knowing in their own sight . * Woe to the strong ones of you that drink wine , and the mighty ones that mingle strong drink : * who justify the ungodly for rewards , and take away the righteousness of the righteous . * Therefore as stubble shall be burnt by a coal of fire , and shall be consumed by a violent flame , their root shall be as chaff , and their flower shall go up as dust : for they rejected the law of the Lord of hosts , and insulted the word of the Holy One of Israel . * Therefore the Lord of hosts was greatly angered against his people , and he reached forth his hand upon them , and smote them : and the mountains were troubled , and their carcasses were as dung in the midst of the way : yet for all this his anger has not been turned away , but his hand is yet (note :)Gr . high (:note ) raised . * Therefore shall he lift up a signal to the nations that are afar , and shall hiss for them from the end of the earth ; and , behold , they are coming very quickly . * They shall not hunger nor be weary , neither shall they slumber nor sleep ; neither shall they loose their girdles from their loins , neither shall their shoe-latchets be broken . * Whose arrows are sharp , and their bows bent ; their horses ’ hoofs are counted as solid rock : their chariot-wheels are as a storm . * They rage as lions , and draw nigh as a lion ’s whelps : and he shall seize , and roar as a wild beast , and he shall cast them forth , and there shall be none to deliver them . * And he shall roar on account of them in that day , as the sound of the swelling sea ; and they shall look to the land , and , behold , there shall be thick darkness in their perplexity .

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