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Isaiah 5

Parable of the Vineyard

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Let me sing now for my well-beloved A song of my beloved concerning His vineyard. My well-beloved had a  avineyard on  1a fertile hill.

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He dug it all around, removed its stones, And planted it with  1the  achoicest vine. And He built a tower in the middle of it And also hewed out a  2wine vat in it; Then He  bexpected it to produce good grapes, But it produced only  3worthless ones.

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"And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem and men of Judah,  aJudge between Me and My vineyard.

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aWhat more was there to do for My vineyard  1that I have not done in it? Why, when I expected it to produce good grapes did it produce  2worthless ones?

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"So now let Me tell you what I am going to do to My vineyard: I will  aremove its hedge and it will be consumed; I will  bbreak down its wall and it will become  ctrampled ground.

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"I will  alay it waste; It will not be pruned or hoed, But briars and thorns will come up. I will also charge the clouds to  brain no rain on it."

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For the  avineyard of the LORD of hosts is the house of Israel And the men of Judah His delightful plant. Thus He looked for justice, but behold,  bbloodshed; For righteousness, but behold, a cry of distress.

Woes for the Wicked

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Woe to those who  aadd house to house and join field to field, Until there is no more room, So that you have to live alone in the midst of the land!

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In my ears the LORD of hosts has sworn, "Surely,  amany houses shall become  bdesolate, Even great and fine ones, without occupants.

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"For  aten acres of vineyard will yield only one  1bath of wine, And a  bhomer of seed will yield but an  2ephah of grain."

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Woe to those who rise early in the morning that they may pursue  astrong drink, Who stay up late in the evening that wine may inflame them!

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Their banquets are accompanied by lyre and  aharp, by tambourine and flute, and by wine; But they  bdo not pay attention to the deeds of the LORD, Nor do they consider the work of His hands.

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Therefore My people go into exile for their  alack of knowledge; And  1their  bhonorable men are famished, And their multitude is parched with thirst.

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Therefore  aSheol has enlarged its  1throat and opened its mouth without measure; And  2Jerusalem's splendor, her multitude, her din of revelry and the jubilant within her, descend into it.

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So the common man will be humbled and the man of importance abased,  aThe eyes of the proud also will be abased.

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But the  aLORD of hosts will be  bexalted in judgment, And the holy God will show Himself  choly in righteousness.

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 aThen the lambs will graze as in their pasture, And strangers will eat in the waste places of the  1wealthy.

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Woe to those who drag  ainiquity with the cords of  1falsehood, And sin as if with cart ropes;

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 aWho say, "Let Him make speed, let Him hasten His work, that we may see it; And let the purpose of the Holy One of Israel draw near And come to pass, that we may know it!"

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Woe to those who  acall evil good, and good evil; Who  1 bsubstitute darkness for light and light for darkness; Who  1substitute bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter!

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Woe to those who are  awise in their own eyes And clever in their own sight!

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 aWoe to those who are heroes in drinking wine And valiant men in mixing strong drink,

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 aWho justify the wicked for a bribe, And  btake away the  1rights of the ones who are in the right!

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Therefore,  aas a tongue of fire consumes stubble And dry grass collapses into the flame, So their  broot will become  clike rot and their blossom  1blow away as dust; For they have  drejected the law of the LORD of hosts And despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.

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On this account the  aanger of the LORD has burned against His people, And He has stretched out His hand against them and struck them down. And the  bmountains quaked, and their  ccorpses  1lay like refuse in the middle of the streets.  dFor all this His anger  2is not spent, But His  ehand is still stretched out.

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He will also lift up a  astandard to the  1distant nation, And will  bwhistle for it  cfrom the ends of the earth; And behold, it will  dcome with speed swiftly.

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 aNo one in it is weary or stumbles, None slumbers or sleeps; Nor is the  bbelt at its waist undone, Nor its sandal strap broken.

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 1 aIts arrows are sharp and all its bows are bent; The hoofs of its horses  2seem like flint and its chariot  bwheels like a whirlwind.

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Its  aroaring is like a lioness, and it roars like young lions; It growls as it  bseizes the prey And carries it off with  cno one to deliver it.

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And it will  agrowl over it in that day like the roaring of the sea. If one  blooks to the land, behold, there is darkness and distress; Even the light is darkened by its clouds.



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