Book of Isaiah, Chapter 5

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Isaiah 5 NASB - New American Standard Bible

Chapter 5 of Isaiah—New American Standard Bible (NASB)

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1. ¶ Let me sing now for my well-beloved
   A song of my beloved concerning His vineyard.
   My well-beloved had a ¹vineyard on ^[a]a fertile hill.
2. He dug it all around, removed its stones,
   And planted it with ^[b]the ²choicest vine.
   And He built a tower in the middle of it
   And also hewed out a ^[c]wine vat in it;
   Then He ³expected it to produce good grapes,
   But it produced only ^[d]worthless ones.
3. ¶ “And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem and men of Judah,
   ⁴Judge between Me and My vineyard.
4. “⁵What more was there to do for My vineyard ^[e]that I have not done in it?
   Why, when I expected 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 ⁶remove its hedge and it will be consumed;
   I will ⁷break down its wall and it will become ⁸trampled ground.
6. “I will ⁹lay it waste;
   It will not be pruned or hoed,
   But briars and thorns will come up.
   I will also charge the clouds to ¹⁰rain no rain on it.”
7. ¶ For the ¹¹vineyard of the LORD of hosts is the house of Israel
   And the men of Judah His delightful plant.
   Thus He looked for justice, but behold, ¹²bloodshed;
   For righteousness, but behold, a cry of distress.
8. ¶ Woe to those who ¹³add house to house and join field to field,
   Until there is no more room,
   So that you have to live alone in the midst of the land!
9. In my ears the LORD of hosts has sworn, “Surely, ¹⁴many houses shall become ¹⁵desolate,
   Even great and fine ones, without occupants.
10. “For ¹⁶ten acres of vineyard will yield only one ^[g]bath of wine,
    And a ¹⁷homer of seed will yield but an ^[h]ephah of grain.”
11. Woe to those who rise early in the morning that they may pursue ¹⁸strong drink,
    Who stay up late in the evening that wine may inflame them!
12. Their banquets are accompanied by lyre and ¹⁹harp, by tambourine and flute, and by wine;
    But they ²⁰do not pay attention to the deeds of the LORD,
    Nor do they consider the work of His hands.
13. ¶ Therefore My people go into exile for their ²¹lack of knowledge;
    And ^[i]their ²²honorable men are famished,
    And their multitude is parched with thirst.
14. Therefore ²³Sheol has enlarged its ^[j]throat and opened its mouth without measure;
    And ^[k]Jerusalem’s splendor, her multitude, her din of revelry and the jubilant within her, descend into it.
15. So the common man will be humbled and the man of importance abased,
    ²⁴The eyes of the proud also will be abased.
16. But the ²⁵LORD of hosts will be ²⁶exalted in judgment,
    And the holy God will show Himself ²⁷holy in righteousness.
17. ²⁸Then the lambs will graze as in their pasture,
    And strangers will eat in the waste places of the ^[l]wealthy.
18. ¶ Woe to those who drag ²⁹iniquity with the cords of ^[m]falsehood,
    And sin as if with cart ropes;
19. ³⁰Who say, “Let Him make speed, let Him hasten His work, that we may see it;
    And let the purpose of the Holy One of Israel draw near
    And come to pass, that we may know it!”
20. Woe to those who ³¹call evil good, and good evil;
    Who ^[n]32substitute darkness for light and light for darkness;
    Who ^[o]substitute bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter!
21. Woe to those who are ³³wise in their own eyes
    And clever in their own sight!
22. ³⁴Woe to those who are heroes in drinking wine
    And valiant men in mixing strong drink,
23. ³⁵Who justify the wicked for a bribe,
    And ³⁶take away the ^[p]rights of the ones who are in the right!
24. ¶ Therefore, ³⁷as a tongue of fire consumes stubble
    And dry grass collapses into the flame,
    So their ³⁸root will become ³⁹like rot and their blossom ^[q]blow away as dust;
    For they have ⁴⁰rejected the law of the LORD of hosts
    And despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.
25. On this account the ⁴¹anger of the LORD has burned against His people,
    And He has stretched out His hand against them and struck them down.
    And the ⁴²mountains quaked, and their ⁴³corpses ^[r]lay like refuse in the middle of the streets.
    ⁴⁴For all this His anger ^[s]is not spent,
    But His ⁴⁵hand is still stretched out.
26. ¶ He will also lift up a ⁴⁶standard to the ^[t]distant nation,
    And will ⁴⁷whistle for it ⁴⁸from the ends of the earth;
    And behold, it will ⁴⁹come with speed swiftly.
27. ⁵⁰No one in it is weary or stumbles,
    None slumbers or sleeps;
    Nor is the ⁵¹belt at its waist undone,
    Nor its sandal strap broken.
28. ^[u]52Its arrows are sharp and all its bows are bent;
    The hoofs of its horses ^[v]seem like flint and its chariot ⁵³wheels like a whirlwind.
29. Its ⁵⁴roaring is like a lioness, and it roars like young lions;
    It growls as it ⁵⁵seizes the prey
    And carries it off with ⁵⁶no one to deliver it.
30. And it will ⁵⁷growl over it in that day like the roaring of the sea.
    If one ⁵⁸looks to the land, behold, there is darkness and distress;
    Even the light is darkened by its clouds.

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FOOTNOTES

1. ^ Lit a horn, the son of fatness
2. ^ Lit a bright red grape
3. ^ Or wine press
4. ^ Or wild grapes
5. ^ Lit and I have not done
6. ^ Or wild grapes
7. ^ I.e. Approx 10 1/2 gal.
8. ^ I.e. Approx one bu
9. ^ Lit their glory are men of famine
10. ^ Or appetite
11. ^ Lit her
12. ^ Lit the fat
13. ^ Or worthlessness
14. ^ Lit set
15. ^ Lit set
16. ^ Lit righteousness
17. ^ Lit ascend
18. ^ Lit were
19. ^ Lit has not turned away
20. ^ Lit nations; probably Assyria
21. ^ Lit Which, its arrows
22. ^ Lit are regarded as

REFERENCES

1. ^ Ps 80:8; Je 12:10; Mt 21:33; Mr 12:1; Lu 20:9
2. ^ Je 2:21
3. ^ Mt 21:19; Mr 11:13; Lu 13:6
4. ^ Mt 21:40
5. ^ 2Ch 36:16; Je 2:5; 7:25, 26; Mc 6:3; Mt 23:37
6. ^ Ps 89:40
7. ^ Ps 80:12
8. ^ Is 10:6; 28:18; La 1:15; Lu 21:24; Re 11:2
9. ^ 2Ch 36:19-21; Is 7:19-25; 24:1, 3; Je 25:11
10. ^ 1Ki 8:35; 17:1; Je 14:1-22
11. ^ Ps 80:8-11
12. ^ Is 3:14, 15; 30:12; 59:13
13. ^ Je 22:13-17; Mc 2:2; Hab 2:9-12
14. ^ Is 6:11, 12
15. ^ Mt 23:38
16. ^ Le 26:26; Is 7:23; Hg 1:6; 2:16
17. ^ Eze 45:11
18. ^ Pr 23:29, 30; Ec 10:16, 17; Is 5:22; 22:13; 28:1, 3, 7, 8
19. ^ Am 6:5, 6
20. ^ Jb 34:27; Ps 28:5
21. ^ Is 1:3; 27:11; Ho 4:6
22. ^ Is 3:3
23. ^ Pr 30:16; Hab 2:5
24. ^ Is 2:11; 10:33
25. ^ Is 28:17; 30:18; 61:8
26. ^ Is 2:11, 17; 33:5, 10
27. ^ Is 8:13; 29:23; 1Pe 3:15
28. ^ Is 7:25; Mc 2:12; Zp 2:6
29. ^ Is 59:4-8; Je 23:10-14
30. ^ Eze 12:22; 2Pe 3:4
31. ^ Pr 17:15; Am 5:7
32. ^ Jb 17:12; Mt 6:22, 23; Lu 11:34, 35
33. ^ Pr 3:7; Ro 12:16; 1Co 3:18-20
34. ^ Pr 23:20; Is 5:11; 56:12; Hab 2:15
35. ^ Ex 23:8; Is 1:23; 10:1, 2; Mc 3:11; 7:3
36. ^ Ps 94:21; Jm 5:6
37. ^ Is 9:18, 19; Jl 2:5
38. ^ Jb 18:16
39. ^ Ho 5:12
40. ^ Is 8:6; 30:9, 12; Ac 13:41
41. ^ 2Ki 22:13, 17; Is 66:15
42. ^ Ps 18:7; Is 64:3; Je 4:24; Na 1:5
43. ^ 2Ki 9:37; Is 14:19; Je 16:4
44. ^ Is 9:12, 17, 19, 21; 10:4; Je 4:8; Da 9:16
45. ^ Ex 7:19; Is 23:11
46. ^ Is 13:2, 3
47. ^ Is 7:18; Zc 10:8
48. ^ De 28:49
49. ^ Is 13:4, 5
50. ^ Jl 2:7, 8
51. ^ Jb 12:18
52. ^ Ps 7:12, 13; 45:5; Is 13:18
53. ^ Is 21:1; Je 4:13
54. ^ Je 51:38; Zp 3:3; Zc 11:3
55. ^ Is 10:6; 49:24, 25; Mc 5:8
56. ^ Is 42:22
57. ^ Is 17:12; Je 6:23; Lu 21:25
58. ^ Is 8:22; Je 4:23-28; Jl 2:10; Lu 21:25, 26

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