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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>Isaiah 5 Literal Standard Version</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/isaiah/5.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/isaiah/5-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">LSV</a> > Isaiah 5</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="../menu.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../isaiah/4.htm" title="Isaiah 4">◄</a> Isaiah 5 <a href="../isaiah/6.htm" title="Isaiah 6">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">Literal Standard Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/parallel/isaiah/5-1.htm#aramaic" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Verses"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><A name="2"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/5-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Now let me sing for my Beloved, "" A song of my Beloved as to His vineyard: My beloved has a vineyard in a fruitful hill,<p> <A name="3"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/5-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>And He fences it, and casts out its stones, "" And plants it [with] a choice vine, "" And builds a tower in its midst, "" And has also hewn out a winepress in it, "" And He waits for the yielding of grapes, "" And it yields bad ones!<p> <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/5-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>And now, O inhabitant of Jerusalem and man of Judah, "" Please judge between Me and My vineyard.<p> <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/5-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>What [is there] to do still to My vineyard, "" That I have not done in it? For what reason have I waited for the yielding of grapes, "" And it yields [only] bad ones?<p> <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/5-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>And now, pray, let Me cause you to know, "" That which I am doing to My vineyard, "" To turn its hedge aside, "" And it has been for consumption, "" To break down its wall, "" And it has been for a treading-place.<p> <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/5-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>And I make it a waste, "" It is not pruned, nor arranged, "" And brier and thorn have gone up, "" And I lay a charge on the thick clouds, "" From raining on it rain.<p> <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/5-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Because the vineyard of YHWH of Hosts "" [Is] the house of Israel, "" And the man of Judah His pleasant plant, "" And He waits for judgment, and behold, oppression, "" For righteousness, and behold, a cry.<p> <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/5-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Woe [to] those joining house to house, "" They bring field near to field, "" Until there is no place, "" And you have been settled by yourselves "" In the midst of the land!<p> <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/5-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Do many houses not become a desolation by the weapons of YHWH of Hosts? Great and good without inhabitant!<p> <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/5-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>For ten acres of vineyard yield one bath, "" And a homer of seed yields an ephah.<p> <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/5-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Woe [to] those rising early in the morning, "" They pursue strong drink! Lingering in twilight, wine inflames them!<p> <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/5-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>And harp, and stringed instrument, tambourine, and pipe, "" And wine, have been their banquets, "" And they do not behold the work of YHWH, "" Indeed, they have not seen the work of His hands.<p> <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/5-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Therefore my people removed without knowledge, "" And its honorable ones are famished, "" And its multitude dried up of thirst.<p> <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/5-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Therefore Sheol has enlarged herself, "" And has opened her mouth without limit. And its honor has gone down, and its multitude, "" And its noise, and its exulting one—into her.<p> <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/5-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>And the low is bowed down, and the high humbled, "" And the eyes of the haughty become low,<p> <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/5-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>And YHWH of Hosts is high in judgment, "" And the Holy God sanctified in righteousness,<p> <A name="18"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/5-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>And lambs have fed according to their leading, "" And sojourners consume wastelands of the fat ones.<p> <A name="19"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/5-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>Woe [to] those drawing out iniquity with cords of vanity, "" And as [with] thick ropes of the cart—sin.<p> <A name="20"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/5-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>Who are saying, “Let Him hurry, "" Let Him hurry His work, that we may see, "" And let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel "" Draw near and come, and we know.”<p> <A name="21"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/5-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>Woe [to] those saying to evil “good,” and to good “evil,” "" Putting darkness for light, and light for darkness, "" Putting bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter.<p> <A name="22"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/5-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>Woe [to] the wise in their own eyes, "" And—before their own faces—intelligent!<p> <A name="23"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/5-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>Woe [to] the mighty to drink wine, "" And men of strength to mingle strong drink.<p> <A name="24"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/5-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>Declaring righteous the wicked for a bribe, "" And the righteousness of the righteous "" They turn aside from him.<p> <A name="25"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/5-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>Therefore, as a tongue of fire devours stubble, "" And flaming hay falls, "" Their root is as muck, "" And their flower goes up as dust. Because they have rejected the Law of YHWH of Hosts, "" And despised the saying of the Holy One of Israel.<p> <A name="26"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/5-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>Therefore the anger of YHWH has burned among His people, "" And He stretches out His hand against it, "" And strikes it, and the mountains tremble, "" And their carcass is as filth in the midst of the out-places. With all this His anger did not turn back, "" And still His hand is stretched out!<p> <A name="27"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/5-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>And He lifted up an ensign to the far-off nations, "" And hissed to it from the end of the earth, "" And behold, with haste, it comes swiftly.<p> <A name="28"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/5-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>There is none weary, nor stumbling in it, "" It does not slumber, nor sleep, "" Nor has the girdle of its loins been opened, "" Nor the strap of its sandals drawn away.<p> <A name="29"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/5-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>Whose arrows [are] sharp, and all its bows bent, "" Hooves of its horses have been reckoned as flint, "" And its wheels as a windstorm!<p> <A name="30"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/5-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>Its roaring [is] like a lioness, "" It roars like young lions, "" And it howls, and seizes prey, "" And carries away safely, and there is none delivering.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/5-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>And it howls against it in that day as the howling of a sea, "" And it has looked attentively to the land, "" And behold, darkness—distress, "" And light has been darkened by its abundance!<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Literal Standard Version<br>Copyright © 2022 by Covenant Press. 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