Isaiah 5  Legacy Standard Bible

³ “So now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem and men of Judah,
^(D)Please judge between Me and My vineyard.
^4 (E)What more was there to do for My vineyard ^[e]that I have not done in it?
Why, when I hoped for it to produce good grapes did it produce ^[f]worthless ones?
⁵ So now let Me tell you what I am going to do to My vineyard:
I will ^(F)remove its hedge, and it will be consumed;
I will ^(G)break down its wall, and it will become ^(H)trampled ground.
⁶ I will ^(I)lay it waste;
It will not be pruned or hoed,
But briars and thorns will come up.
I will also command the clouds to ^(J)rain no rain on it.”

⁷ For the ^(K)vineyard of Yahweh of hosts is the house of Israel
And the men of Judah His delightful plant.
Thus He hoped for justice, but behold, ^(L)bloodshed;
For righteousness, but behold, a cry of distress.

¹¹ Woe to those who rise early in the morning that they may pursue ^(R)strong drink,
Who stay up late in the evening that wine may inflame them!
¹² And their banquets are accompanied by lyre and ^(S)harp, by tambourine and flute, and by wine;
But they ^(T)do not look upon the deeds of Yahweh,
Nor do they see the work of His hands.

¹³ Therefore My people go into exile for their ^(U)lack of knowledge;
And ^[k]their ^(V)honorable men are famished,
And their multitude is parched with thirst.
¹⁴ Therefore ^(W)Sheol has enlarged its ^[l]throat and opened its mouth without limit;
And ^[m]Jerusalem’s majesty, her multitude, her rumbling, and the exultant within her, descend into it.
¹⁵ So the common man will be bowed down and the man of importance will be made low,
^(X)The eyes of the lofty also will be made low.
¹⁶ But ^(Y)Yahweh of hosts will be ^(Z)lofty in judgment,
And the holy God will show Himself ^(AA)holy in righteousness.
^17 (AB)Then the lambs will graze as in their pasture,
And sojourners will eat in the waste places of the ^[n]wealthy.

¹⁸ Woe to those who drag ^(AC)iniquity with the cords of worthlessness,
And sin as if with cart ropes,
^19 (AD)Who say, “Let Him hurry, let Him hasten His work, that we may see it;
And let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel draw near
And come to pass, that we may know it!”

²⁰ Woe to those who ^(AE)call evil good and good evil,
Who ^[o](AF)substitute darkness for light and light for darkness,
Who ^[p]substitute bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter!
²¹ Woe to those who are ^(AG)wise in their own eyes
And understanding in their own ^[q]sight!
^22 (AH)Woe to those who are mighty men in drinking wine
And valiant men in mixing strong drink,
^23 (AI)Who ^[r]declare the wicked righteous for a bribe,
And ^(AJ)remove the ^[s]righteous standing of the ones who are ^[t]righteous!

²⁴ Therefore, ^(AK)as a tongue of fire consumes stubble
And dry grass collapses into the flame,
So their ^(AL)root will become ^(AM)like rot and their blossom ^[u]blow away as dust;
For they have ^(AN)rejected the law of Yahweh of hosts
And the word of the Holy One of Israel they have spurned.
²⁵ On this account, the ^(AO)anger of Yahweh has burned against His people,
And He has stretched out His hand against them and struck them down.
And the ^(AP)mountains trembled, and their ^(AQ)corpses ^[v]lay like refuse in the middle of the streets.
^(AR)For all this His anger is not turned back,
But His ^(AS)hand is still stretched out.

²⁶ He will also lift up a ^(AT)standard to the ^[w]distant nations,
And will ^(AU)whistle for it ^(AV)from the ends of the earth;
And behold, it will ^(AW)come with speed swiftly.
^27 (AX)No one in it is weary or stumbles,
None slumbers or sleeps;
Nor is the ^(AY)belt at its waist undone,
Nor its sandal strap broken.
^28 [x](AZ)Its arrows are sharp and all its bows are bent;
The hoofs of its horses ^[y]seem like flint and its chariot ^(BA)wheels like a whirlwind.
²⁹ Its ^(BB)roaring is like a lioness, and it roars like young lions;
It growls and ^(BC)seizes the prey
And carries it off with ^(BD)no one to deliver it.
³⁰ And it will ^(BE)growl over it in that day like the roaring of the sea.
If one ^(BF)looks to the land, behold, there is darkness and distress;
Even the light is darkened by its clouds.