5:1 Now I will sing to [my] beloved a song
of my beloved concerning my vineyard. [My] beloved had a vineyard on a high
hill in a fertile place.
5:2 And I made a hedge round it, and dug a trench, and planted a choice
vine, and built a tower in the midst of it, and dug a place for the wine-vat
in it: and I waited [for it] to bring forth grapes, and it brought forth
thorns.
5:3 And now, ye dwellers in Jerusalem, and [every] man of Juda, judge
between me and my vineyard.
5:4 What shall I do any more to my vineyard, that I have not done to it?
Whereas I expected [it] to bring forth grapes, but it has brought forth
thorns.
5:5 And now I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard: I will take away
its hedge, and it shall be for a spoil; and I will pull down its walls, and
it shall be [left] to be trodden down.
5:6 And I will forsake my vineyard; and it shall not be pruned, nor dug, and
thorns shall come up upon it as on barren land; and I will command the
clouds to rain no rain upon it.
5:7 For the vineyard of the Lord of hosts is the house of Israel, and the
men of Juda [his] beloved plant: I expected [it] to bring forth judgement,
and it brought forth iniquity; and not righteousness, but a cry.
5:8 Woe [to them] that join house to house, and add field to field, that
they may take away something of their neighbor's: will ye dwell alone upon
the land?
5:9 For these things have reached the ears o the Lord of hosts: for though
many houses should be built, many and fair houses shall be desolate, and
there shall be no inhabitants in them.
5:10 For where ten yoke of oxen plough [the land] shall yield one jar-full,
and he that sows six homers shall produce three measures.
5:11 Woe [to them] that rise up in the morning, and follow strong drink; who
wait [at it till] evening: for the wine shall inflame them.
5:12 For they drink wine with harp, and psaltery, and drums, and pipes: but
they regard not the works of the Lord, and consider not the works of his
hands.
5:13 Therefore my people have been taken captive, because they know not the
Lord: and there has been a multitude of dead [bodies], because of hunger and
of thirst for water.
5:14 Therefore hell has enlarged its desire and opened its mouth without
ceasing: and her glorious and great, and her rich and her pestilent men
shall go down [into it].
5:15 And the mean man shall be brought low, and the great man shall be
disgraced, and the lofty eyes shall be brought low.
5:16 But the Lord of hosts shall be exalted in judgement, and the holy God
shall be glorified in righteousness.
5:17 And they that were spoiled shall be fed as bulls, and lambs shall feed
on the waste places of them that are taken away.
5:18 Woe [to them] that draw sins to them as with a long rope, and
iniquities as with a thong of the heifer's yoke:
5:19 who say, Let him speedily hasten what he will do, that we may see [it]:
and let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel come, that we may know [it].
5:20 Woe [to them] that call evil good, and good evil; who make darkness
light, and light darkness; who make bitter sweet, and sweet bitter.
5:21 Woe [to them] that are wise in their own conceit, and knowing in their
own sight.
5:22 Woe to the strong [ones] of you that drink wine, and the mighty [ones]
that mingle strong drink:
5:23 who justify the ungodly for rewards, and take away the righteousness of
the righteous.
5:24 Therefore as stubble shall be burnt by a coal of fire, and shall be
consumed y a violent flame, their root shall be as chaff, and their flower
shall go up as dust: for they rejected the law of the Lord of hosts, and
insulted the word of the Holy One of Israel.
5:25 Therefore the Lord of hosts was greatly angered against his people, and
he reached forth his hand upon them, and smote them: and the mountains were
troubled, and their carcasses were as dung in the midst of the way: yet for
all this his anger has not been turned away, but his hand is yet raised.
5:26 Therefore shall he lift up a signal to the nations that are afar, and
shall hiss for them from the end of the earth; and, behold, they are coming
very quickly.
5:27 They shall not hunger nor be weary, neither shall they slumber nor
sleep; neither shall they loose their girdles from their loins, neither
shall their shoe-latchets be broken.
5:28 Whose arrows are sharp, and their bows bent; their horses' hoofs are
counted as solid rock: their chariot-wheels are as a storm.
5:29 They rage as lions, and draw nigh as a lion's whelps: and he shall
seize, and roar as a wild beast, and he shall cast [them] forth, and there
shall be none to deliver them.
5:30 And he shall roar on account of them in that day, as the sound of the
swelling sea; and they shall look to the land, and, behold, [there shall be]
thick darkness in their perplexity. |
5:1 Now will I sing to my wellbeloved a song
of my beloved touching his vineyard. My wellbeloved hath a vineyard in a
very fruitful hill:
5:2 And he fenced it, and gathered out the stones thereof, and planted it
with the choicest vine, and built a tower in the midst of it, and also made
a winepress therein: and he looked that it should bring forth grapes, and it
brought forth wild grapes.
5:3 And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem, and men of Judah, judge, I pray
you, betwixt me and my vineyard.
5:4 What could have been done more to my vineyard, that I have not done in
it? wherefore, when I looked that it should bring forth grapes, brought it
forth wild grapes?
5:5 And now go to; I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard: I will
take away the hedge thereof, and it shall be eaten up; and break down the
wall thereof, and it shall be trodden down:
5:6 And I will lay it waste: it shall not be pruned, nor digged; but there
shall come up briers and thorns: I will also command the clouds that they
rain no rain upon it.
5:7 For the vineyard of the LORD of hosts is the house of Israel, and the
men of Judah his pleasant plant: and he looked for judgment, but behold
oppression; for righteousness, but behold a cry.
5:8 Woe unto them that join house to house, that lay field to field, till
there be no place, that they may be placed alone in the midst of the earth!
5:9 In mine ears said the LORD of hosts, Of a truth many houses shall be
desolate, even great and fair, without inhabitant.
5:10 Yea, ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and the seed of an
homer shall yield an ephah.
5:11 Woe unto them that rise up early in the morning, that they may follow
strong drink; that continue until night, till wine inflame them!
5:12 And the harp, and the viol, the tabret, and pipe, and wine, are in
their feasts: but they regard not the work of the LORD, neither consider the
operation of his hands.
5:13 Therefore my people are gone into captivity, because they have no
knowledge: and their honourable men are famished, and their multitude dried
up with thirst.
5:14 Therefore hell hath enlarged herself, and opened her mouth without
measure: and their glory, and their multitude, and their pomp, and he that
rejoiceth, shall descend into it.
5:15 And the mean man shall be brought down, and the mighty man shall be
humbled, and the eyes of the lofty shall be humbled:
5:16 But the LORD of hosts shall be exalted in judgment, and God that is
holy shall be sanctified in righteousness.
5:17 Then shall the lambs feed after their manner, and the waste places of
the fat ones shall strangers eat.
5:18 Woe unto them that draw iniquity with cords of vanity, and sin as it
were with a cart rope:
5:19 That say, Let him make speed, and hasten his work, that we may see it:
and let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel draw nigh and come, that we
may know it!
5:20 Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for
light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for
bitter!
5:21 Woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own
sight!
5:22 Woe unto them that are mighty to drink wine, and men of strength to
mingle strong drink:
5:23 Which justify the wicked for reward, and take away the righteousness of
the righteous from him!
5:24 Therefore as the fire devoureth the stubble, and the flame consumeth
the chaff, so their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go
up as dust: because they have cast away the law of the LORD of hosts, and
despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.
5:25 Therefore is the anger of the LORD kindled against his people, and he
hath stretched forth his hand against them, and hath smitten them: and the
hills did tremble, and their carcases were torn in the midst of the streets.
For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out
still.
5:26 And he will lift up an ensign to the nations from far, and will hiss
unto them from the end of the earth: and, behold, they shall come with speed
swiftly:
5:27 None shall be weary nor stumble among them; none shall slumber nor
sleep; neither shall the girdle of their loins be loosed, nor the latchet of
their shoes be broken:
5:28 Whose arrows are sharp, and all their bows bent, their horses' hoofs
shall be counted like flint, and their wheels like a whirlwind:
5:29 Their roaring shall be like a lion, they shall roar like young lions:
yea, they shall roar, and lay hold of the prey, and shall carry it away
safe, and none shall deliver it.
5:30 And in that day they shall roar against them like the roaring of the
sea: and if one look unto the land, behold darkness and sorrow, and the
light is darkened in the heavens thereof. |