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          DASV: Isaiah 5    

1 Let me sing for my beloved
          a song about his vineyard.
     My beloved had a vineyard
          on a very fertile hill.
2 He cultivated it, cleared out its stones,
          and planted it with the choicest vine.
     He built a tower in the midst of it,
          and also hewed out a winepress in it.
     He expected that it would produce grapes,
          but it yielded only sour grapes.

3 Now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem
     and people of Judah,
      judge between me and my vineyard.
4 What more could I have done to my vineyard
          than I have not already done for it?
      When I expected that it would produce grapes,
           why did it yield only sour grapes?
5 Now I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard:
     I will take away its hedge,
           and it will be eaten up;
     I will break down its wall,
           and it will be trampled down.
6 I will make it a wasteland;
     it will not be pruned or hoed;
           instead, briers and thorns will come up.
      I will also command the clouds
          that they not shower any rain on it.
7 For the vineyard of the LORD of hosts is the house of Israel,
     and the people of Judah is his cherished plant.
           He expected justice,
     but got only oppression;
           hoped for righteousness,
     but heard only cries for help.

8 Woe to those who accumulate house after house,
     that acquire field after field
           until there is no room left,
     until you are left to dwell alone in the midst of the land!
9 In my ears the LORD of hosts said,
     "Of a truth many houses will be desolate,
           even large and beautiful mansions
                will be left without inhabitant."
10 For ten acres of vineyard will produce only six gallons of wine,
     and six bushels of seed will produce less than a bushel of grain.
11 Woe to those who rise up early in the morning
     so that they may pursue strong drink;
      who stay up late into the night,
     until they are inflamed with wine!
12 Their parties have the harp and lute,
          the tambourine, flute, and wine.
     They have no respect for the deeds of the LORD,
          or consider the work of his hands.
13 Therefore my people will go into exile
     for lack of knowledge;
           their nobles will lack food,
     and their crowds parched with thirst.
14 Therefore Sheol has enlarged its throat
          and opened its mouth without limit.
      Their famous ones and their multitude,
          with their boisterous revelers will descend into it.
15 Each person will be on their face,
     each one brought down,
           and the haughty eyes humbled.
16 But the LORD of hosts will be exalted by justice,
     and God the Holy One will demonstrate his holiness
           by righteousness.
17 Then will the lambs feed as in their own pasture,
     and the fatlings graze among the ruins.

18 Woe to those who drag iniquity with cords of falsehood,
     and sin along like with a cart rope.
19 Who say, "Make him hurry up,
     let him do his work quickly,
           so that we may see it.
      Let the plan of the Holy One of Israel happen soon,
           so that we may experience it!"
20 Woe to those who call evil good,
     and good evil;
      who turn darkness to light,
     and light to darkness;
      who swap bitter for sweet,
     and sweet for bitter!
21 Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes,
     and shrewd in their own sight!
22 Woe to those who are champions at drinking wine,
     and valiant at mixing strong drinks,
23 who acquit the guilty for a bribe,
     and deny the innocent justice!

24 Therefore, just as the tongue of fire devours straw,
          and as the dry grass shrivels in the flame,
     so their root will become rotten
          and their blossom will blow away like dust,
      because they have rejected the law of the LORD of hosts,
     and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.
25 Therefore the anger of the LORD burns against his people;
     he has stretched out his hand against them,
           and has struck them.
      The mountains tremble,
          and their corpses are strewn like garbage in the streets.
      After all this, his anger is not turned away,
          but his hand is still stretched out.
26 He will send the signal to a distant nation,
     and will whistle for them to come from the ends of the earth.
      Look, they come with speed and swiftness.
27 None of them are tired or stumble;
     none will slumber or sleep;
           not a belt will be loosed,
     not a thong of their sandals will be broken.
28 Their arrows are sharp,
          and all their bows bent.
     Their horses' hoofs are like flint,
          and their wheels like a whirlwind.
29 Their roaring is like a lion,
          they roar like young lions.
      They growl, seize their prey,
          and haul it off,
           and there is no one to rescue.
30 They will roar over them in that day
          like the roaring of the sea.
     If one looks at the land,
          there is darkness and distress;
                even the light is darkened by clouds.

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