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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 Brenton's Septuagint Translation</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="../">Brenton</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">Brenton's Septuagint Translation</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/parallel/isaiah/5-1.htm" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Verses"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><A name="2"></a><p class="hdg">The Song of the Vineyard<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/5-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Now I will sing to <i>my</i> beloved a song of my beloved concerning my vineyard. <i>My</i> beloved had a vineyard on a high hill in a fertile place.<p> <A name="3"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/5-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>And I made a hedge round it, and dug a trench, and planted a choice vine, and built a tower in the midst of it, and dug a place for the wine-vat in it: and I waited <i>for it</i> to bring forth grapes, and it brought forth thorns.<p> <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/5-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>And now, ye dwellers in Jerusalem, and <i>every</i> man of Juda, 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 shall I do any more to my vineyard, that I have not done to it? Whereas I expected <i>it</i> to bring forth grapes, but it has brought forth thorns.<p> <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/5-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>And now I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard: I will take away its hedge, and it shall be for a spoil; and I will pull down its walls, and it shall be <i>left</i> to be trodden down.<p> <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/5-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>And I will forsake my vineyard; and it shall not be pruned, nor dug, and thorns shall come up upon it as on barren land; and I will command the clouds to rain no rain upon it.<p> <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/5-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>For the vineyard of the Lord of hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Juda <i>his</i> beloved plant: I expected <i>it</i> to bring forth judgement, and it brought forth iniquity; and not righteousness, but a cry.<p> <A name="9"></a><p class="hdg">Woes to the Wicked<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/5-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Woe <i>to them</i> that join house to house, and add field to field, that they may take away something of their neighbor's: will ye dwell alone upon the land?<p> <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/5-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>For these things have reached the ears of the Lord of hosts: for though many houses should be built, many and fair houses shall be desolate, and there shall be no inhabitants in them.<p> <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/5-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>For where ten yoke of oxen plough <i>the land</i> shall yield one jar-full, and he that sows six homers shall produce three measures.<p> <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/5-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Woe <i>to them</i> that rise up in the morning, and follow strong drink; who wait <i>at it till</i> evening: for the wine shall inflame them.<p> <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/5-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>For they drink wine with harp, and psaltery, and drums, and pipes: but they regard not the works of the Lord, and consider not the works 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 have been taken captive, because they know not the Lord: and there has been a multitude of dead <i>bodies</i>, because of hunger and of thirst for water.<p> <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/5-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Therefore hell has enlarged its desire and opened its mouth without ceasing: and her glorious and great, and her rich and her pestilent men shall go down <i>into it</i>.<p> <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/5-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>And the mean man shall be brought low, and the great man shall be disgraced, and the lofty eyes shall be brought low.<p> <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/5-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>But the Lord of hosts shall be exalted in judgement, and the holy God shall be glorified in righteousness.<p> <A name="18"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/5-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>And they that were spoiled shall be fed as bulls, and lambs shall feed on the waste places of them that are taken away.<p> <A name="19"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/5-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>Woe <i>to them</i> that draw sins to them as with a long rope, and iniquities as with a thong of the heifer's yoke:<p> <A name="20"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/5-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>who say, Let him speedily hasten what he will do, that we may see <i>it</i>: and let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel come, that we may know <i>it</i>.<p> <A name="21"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/5-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>Woe <i>to them</i> that call evil good, and good evil; who make darkness light, and light darkness; who make bitter sweet, and sweet bitter.<p> <A name="22"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/5-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>Woe <i>to them</i> that are wise in their own conceit, and knowing in their own sight.<p> <A name="23"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/5-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>Woe to the strong <i>ones</i> of you that drink wine, and the mighty <i>ones</i> that mingle strong drink:<p> <A name="24"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/5-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>who justify the ungodly for rewards, and take away the righteousness of the righteous.<p> <A name="25"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/5-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>Therefore as stubble shall be burnt by a coal of fire, and shall be consumed by a violent flame, their root shall be as chaff, and their flower shall go up as dust: for they rejected the law of the Lord of hosts, and insulted the word 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 Lord of hosts was greatly angered against his people, and he reached forth his hand upon them, and smote them: and the mountains were troubled, and their carcasses were as dung in the midst of the way: yet for all this his anger has not been turned away, but his hand is yet raised.<p> <A name="27"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/5-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>Therefore shall he lift up a signal to the nations that are afar, and shall hiss for them from the end of the earth; and, behold, they are coming very quickly.<p> <A name="28"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/5-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>They shall not hunger nor be weary, neither shall they slumber nor sleep; neither shall they loose their girdles from their loins, neither shall their shoe-latchets be broken.<p> <A name="29"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/5-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>Whose arrows are sharp, and their bows bent; their horses' hoofs are counted as solid rock: their chariot-wheels are as a storm.<p> <A name="30"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/5-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>They rage as lions, and draw nigh as a lion's whelps: and he shall seize, and roar as a wild beast, and he shall cast <i>them</i> forth, and there shall be none to deliver them.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/5-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>And he shall roar on account of them in that day, as the sound of the swelling sea; and they shall look to the land, and, behold, <i>there shall be</i> thick darkness in their perplexity.<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The English translation of The Septuagint by Sir Lancelot Charles Lee Brenton (1851)<br><br>Section Headings Courtesy <a href="https://berean.bible">Berean Bible</i><span class="p"><br /><br /></span></div></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../isaiah/4.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Isaiah 4"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Isaiah 4" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../isaiah/6.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Isaiah 6"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Isaiah 6" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhchapnoad.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>