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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 ESV</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="../">ESV</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 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">English Standard Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/esv/nas/isaiah/5.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div></a><div class="chap">The Vineyard of the Lord Destroyed<a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/5-1.htm">1</a>Let me sing for my beloved my love song concerning his vineyard: My beloved had a vineyard on a very fertile hill. <a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/5-2.htm">2</a>He dug it and cleared it of stones, and planted it with choice vines; he built a watchtower in the midst of it, and hewed out a wine vat in it; and he looked for it to yield grapes, but it yielded wild grapes. <a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/5-3.htm">3</a>And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem and men of Judah, judge between me and my vineyard. <a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/5-4.htm">4</a>What more was there to do for my vineyard, that I have not done in it? When I looked for it to yield grapes, why did it yield wild grapes? <a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/5-5.htm">5</a>And now I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard. I will remove its hedge, and it shall be devoured;<a href="#footnotes" title="Or grazed over; compare Exodus 22:5">a</a> I will break down its wall, and it shall be trampled down. <a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/5-6.htm">6</a>I will make it a waste; it shall not be pruned or hoed, and briers and thorns shall grow up; I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it. <a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/5-7.htm">7</a>For the vineyard of the Lord of hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah are his pleasant planting; and he looked for justice, but behold, bloodshed;<a href="#footnotes" title="The Hebrew words for justice and bloodshed sound alike">b</a> for righteousness, but behold, an outcry!<a href="#footnotes" title="The Hebrew words for righteous and outcry sound alike">c</a> Woe to the Wicked<a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/5-8.htm">8</a>Woe to those who join house to house, who add field to field, until there is no more room, and you are made to dwell alone in the midst of the land. <a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/5-9.htm">9</a>The Lord of hosts has sworn in my hearing: “Surely many houses shall be desolate, large and beautiful houses, without inhabitant. <a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/5-10.htm">10</a>For ten acres<a href="#footnotes" title="Hebrew ten yoke, the area ten yoke of oxen can plow in a day">d</a> of vineyard shall yield but one bath, and a homer of seed shall yield but an ephah.”<a href="#footnotes" title="A bath was about 6 gallons or 22 liters; a homer was about 6 bushels or 220 liters; an ephah was about 3/5 bushel or 22 liters">e</a> <a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/5-11.htm">11</a>Woe to those who rise early in the morning, that they may run after strong drink, who tarry late into the evening as wine inflames them! <a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/5-12.htm">12</a>They have lyre and harp, tambourine and flute and wine at their feasts, but they do not regard the deeds of the Lord, or see the work of his hands. <a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/5-13.htm">13</a>Therefore my people go into exile for lack of knowledge;<a href="#footnotes" title="Or without their knowledge">f</a> their honored men go hungry,<a href="#footnotes" title="Or die of hunger">g</a> and their multitude is parched with thirst. <a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/5-14.htm">14</a>Therefore Sheol has enlarged its appetite and opened its mouth beyond measure, and the nobility of Jerusalem<a href="#footnotes" title="Hebrew her nobility">h</a> and her multitude will go down, her revelers and he who exults in her. <a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/5-15.htm">15</a>Man is humbled, and each one is brought low, and the eyes of the haughty<a href="#footnotes" title="Hebrew high">i</a> are brought low. <a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/5-16.htm">16</a>But the Lord of hosts is exalted<a href="#footnotes" title="Hebrew high">j</a> in justice, and the Holy God shows himself holy in righteousness. <a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/5-17.htm">17</a>Then shall the lambs graze as in their pasture, and nomads shall eat among the ruins of the rich. <a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/5-18.htm">18</a>Woe to those who draw iniquity with cords of falsehood, who draw sin as with cart ropes, <a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/5-19.htm">19</a>who say: “Let him be quick, let him speed his work that we may see it; let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel draw near, and let it come, that we may know it!” <a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/5-20.htm">20</a>Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter! <a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/5-21.htm">21</a>Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes, and shrewd in their own sight! <a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/5-22.htm">22</a>Woe to those who are heroes at drinking wine, and valiant men in mixing strong drink, <a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/5-23.htm">23</a>who acquit the guilty for a bribe, and deprive the innocent of his right! <a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/5-24.htm">24</a>Therefore, as the tongue of fire devours the stubble, and as dry grass sinks down in the flame, so their root will be as rottenness, and their blossom go up like dust; for they have rejected the law of the Lord of hosts, and have despised the word of the Holy One of Israel. <a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/5-25.htm">25</a>Therefore the anger of the Lord was kindled against his people, and he stretched out his hand against them and struck them, and the mountains quaked; and their corpses were as refuse in the midst of the streets. For all this his anger has not turned away, and his hand is stretched out still. <a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/5-26.htm">26</a>He will raise a signal for nations far away, and whistle for them from the ends of the earth; and behold, quickly, speedily they come! <a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/5-27.htm">27</a>None is weary, none stumbles, none slumbers or sleeps, not a waistband is loose, not a sandal strap broken; <a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/5-28.htm">28</a>their arrows are sharp, all their bows bent, their horses’ hoofs seem like flint, and their wheels like the whirlwind. <a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/5-29.htm">29</a>Their roaring is like a lion, like young lions they roar; they growl and seize their prey; they carry it off, and none can rescue. <a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/5-30.htm">30</a>They will growl over it on that day, like the growling of the sea. And if one looks to the land, behold, darkness and distress; and the light is darkened by its clouds.<A name="footnotes"></a><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF">Footnotes: a 5 Or grazed over; compare Exodus 22:5 b 7 The Hebrew words for justice and bloodshed sound alike c 7 The Hebrew words for righteous and outcry sound alike d 10 Hebrew ten yoke, the area ten yoke of oxen can plow in a day e 10 A bath was about 6 gallons or 22 liters; a homer was about 6 bushels or 220 liters; an ephah was about 3/5 bushel or 22 liters f 13 Or without their knowledge g 13 Or die of hunger h 14 Hebrew her nobility i 15 Hebrew high j 16 Hebrew high </div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">ESV Text Edition® (2016). The ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®) copyright © 2001 by <a href="http://www.crossway.org/home/esv/">Crossway Bibles</a>, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. 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