13 Therefore my people [a]is gone into captivity, because they had [b]no knowledge, and the glory thereof are men famished, and the multitude thereof is dried up with thirst.

14 Therefore [c]hell hath enlarged itself, and hath opened his mouth without measure, and their glory, and their multitude, and their pomp, and he that rejoiceth among them, shall descend into it.

15 And man shall be brought down, and man shall be humbled, even the eyes of the proud shall be humbled.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 5:13 That is, shall certainly go: for so the Prophets use to speak, as though the thing which shall come to pass, were done already.
  2. Isaiah 5:13 Because they would not obey the word of God.
  3. Isaiah 5:14 Meaning, the grave shall swallow up them that shall die for hunger and thirst, and yet for all this great destruction it shall ever be satiate.

13 Therefore my people will go into exile(A)
    for lack of understanding;(B)
those of high rank(C) will die of hunger
    and the common people will be parched with thirst.(D)
14 Therefore Death(E) expands its jaws,
    opening wide its mouth;(F)
into it will descend their nobles and masses
    with all their brawlers and revelers.(G)
15 So people will be brought low(H)
    and everyone humbled,(I)
    the eyes of the arrogant(J) humbled.

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