Isaiah:5

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* Let me sing for my well-beloved a song of my beloved concerning his vineyard . My well-beloved had a vineyard in a very fruitful hill . * And he dug it , and gathered out the stones of it , and planted it with the choicest vine , and built a tower in the midst of it , and also hewed out a winepress in it . And he looked that it should bring forth grapes , and it brought fo * And now , O inhabitants of Jerusalem and men of Judah , judge , I pray you , between me and my vineyard . * What could have been done more to my vineyard that I have not done in it ? Why , when I looked that it should bring forth grapes , it brought forth wild grapes ? * And now I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard . I will take away the hedge of it , and it shall be eaten up . I will break down the wall of it , and it shall be trodden down . * And I will lay it waste . It shall not be pruned nor hoed , but there shall come up briers and thorns . I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it . * For the vineyard of LORD of hosts is the house of Israel , and the men of Judah his pleasant plant . And he looked for justice , but , behold , oppression , for righteousness , but , behold , a cry . * Woe to those who join house to house , who lay field to field , till there is no room , and ye be made to dwell alone in the midst of the land ! * In my ears [says ] LORD of hosts , of a truth many houses shall be desolate , even great and fair , without inhabitant . * For ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath , and a homer of seed shall yield [but ] an ephah . * Woe to those who rise up early in the morning , that they may follow strong drink , who tarry late into the night , till wine inflame them ! * And the harp and the lute , the tambourine and the pipe , and wine , are [in ] their feasts , but they do not regard the work of LORD , nor have they considered the operation of his hands . * Therefore my people have gone into captivity for lack of knowledge , and their honorable men are famished , and their multitude are parched with thirst . * Therefore Sheol has enlarged its desire , and opened its mouth without measure . And their glory , and their multitude , and their pomp , and he who rejoices among them , descend [into it ]. * And the common man is bowed down , and the great man is debased , and the eyes of the lofty are humbled , * but LORD of hosts is exalted in justice , and God the Holy One is sanctified in righteousness . * Then the lambs shall feed as in their pasture , and wanderers shall eat the waste places of the fat ones . * Woe to those who draw iniquity with cords of falsehood , and sin as it were with a cart rope , * who say , Let him make speed , let him hasten his work , that we may see it . And let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel draw near and come , that we may know it ! * Woe 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 ! * Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes , and prudent in their own sight ! * Woe to those who are mighty to drink wine , and men of strength to mingle strong drink , * who justify the wicked for rewards , and take away the justice of the righteous man from him ! * Therefore 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 LORD of hosts , an * Therefore the anger of LORD is kindled against his people , and he has stretched forth his hand against them , and has smitten them . And the mountains tremble , and their dead bodies are as refuse in the midst of the streets . For all * And he will lift up an ensign to the nations from far , and will whistle for them from the end of the earth , and , behold , they shall come with speed swiftly . * None shall be weary nor stumble among them . None shall slumber nor sleep , nor shall the belt of their loins be loosed , nor the latchet of their shoes be broken , * whose arrows are sharp , and all their bows bent . Their horses ' hoofs shall be accounted as flint , and their wheels as a whirlwind . * Their roaring shall be like a lioness . They shall roar like young lions . Yea , they shall roar , and lay hold of the prey , and carry it away safe , and there shall be none to deliver . * And they shall roar against them in that day like the roaring of the sea . And if [a man ] looks to the land , behold , darkness [and ] distress , and the light is darkened in the clouds of it .

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