Isaiah 5
The Parable of the
Vineyard |
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Now will I sing to my well-beloved
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a song of my beloved touching his vineyard. Mt.
21.33 · Mk.
12.1 · Lk.
20.9 |
My well-beloved hath a vineyard |
in a very fruitful
hill: |
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and he fenced it, and gathered out the
stones thereof,
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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.
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And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem, and
men of Judah,
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judge, I pray you, betwixt me and my
vineyard. |
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What could have been done more to my
vineyard,
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that I have not done in it? |
Wherefore, when I looked that it should bring forth
grapes, |
brought it forth wild grapes?
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And now go to;
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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: |
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and I will lay it waste:
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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. |
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For the vineyard of the LORD of hosts is the house of Israel,
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and the men of Judah his pleasant plant: |
and he looked for judgment, but behold
oppression; |
for righteousness, but behold a
cry. |
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Woes Pronounced on the
Wicked |
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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!
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In mine ears said the LORD of hosts, Of a truth many houses shall be
desolate, even great and fair, without inhabitant.
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Yea, ten acres of vineyard shall yield
one bath, and the seed of a homer shall yield an ephah.
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Woe unto them that rise up early in the
morning, that they may follow strong drink; that continue
until night, till wine inflame them!
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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.
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Therefore my people are gone into
captivity, because they have no knowledge: and their
honorable men are famished, and their multitude dried up with
thirst.
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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.
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And the mean man shall be brought down,
and the mighty man shall be humbled, and the eyes of the lofty shall
be humbled:
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but the LORD of
hosts shall be exalted in judgment, and God that is holy shall be
sanctified in righteousness.
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Then shall the lambs feed after their
manner, and the waste places of the fat ones shall strangers
eat.
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Woe unto them that draw iniquity with
cords of vanity, and sin as it were with a cart rope:
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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!
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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!
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Woe unto them that are wise in
their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight!
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Woe unto them that are mighty to
drink wine, and men of strength to mingle strong drink:
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which justify the wicked for reward, and
take away the righteousness of the righteous from him!
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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.
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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 carcasses were torn in the midst of
the streets. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.
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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:
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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:
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whose arrows are sharp, and all
their bows bent, their horses' hoofs shall be counted like flint,
and their wheels like a whirlwind:
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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.
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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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