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Isaiah 5 :: King James Version (KJV)

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 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:
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 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.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 5:3 - And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem, and men of Judah, judge, I pray you, betwixt me and my vineyard.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 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?
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 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:
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 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.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 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.

Woes for the Wicked

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 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!
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 5:9 - In mine ears said the LORD of hosts, Of a truth many houses shall be desolate, even great and fair, without inhabitant.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 5:10 - Yea, ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and the seed of an homer shall yield an ephah.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 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!
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 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.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 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.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 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.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 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:
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 5:16 - But the LORD of hosts shall be exalted in judgment, and God that is holy shall be sanctified in righteousness.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 5:17 - Then shall the lambs feed after their manner, and the waste places of the fat ones shall strangers eat.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 5:18 - Woe unto them that draw iniquity with cords of vanity, and sin as it were with a cart rope:
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 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!
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 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!
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 5:21 - Woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight!
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 5:22 - Woe unto them that are mighty to drink wine, and men of strength to mingle strong drink:
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 5:23 - Which justify the wicked for reward, and take away the righteousness of the righteous from him!
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 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.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 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.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 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:
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 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:
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 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:
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 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.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 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.
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