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When I expected it to yield grapes,     why did it yield wild grapes?</div> <div class="poetry top-1">5And now I will tell you     what I will do to my vineyard. I will remove its hedge,     and it shall be devoured; I will break down its wall,     and it shall be trampled down. 6I will make it a waste;     it shall not be pruned or hoed,     and it shall be overgrown with briers and thorns; I will also command the clouds     that they rain no rain upon it.</div> <div class="poetry top-1">7For the vineyard of the Lord of hosts     is the house of Israel, and the people of Judah     are his pleasant planting; he expected justice,     but saw bloodshed; righteousness,     but heard a cry!</div> <h3>Social Injustice Denounced</h3><div class="poetry">8Ah, you who join house to house,     who add field to field, until there is room for no one but you,     and you are left to live alone     in the midst of the land! 9The Lord of hosts has sworn in my hearing: Surely many houses shall be desolate,     large and beautiful houses, without inhabitant. 10For ten acres of vineyard shall yield but one bath,     and a homer of seed shall yield a mere ephah.a</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote a">a</a>]</div> <div class="poetry top-1">11Ah, you who rise early in the morning     in pursuit of strong drink, who linger in the evening     to be inflamed by wine, 12whose feasts consist of lyre and harp,     tambourine and flute and wine, but who do not regard the deeds of the Lord,     or see the work of his hands! 13Therefore my people go into exile without knowledge; their nobles are dying of hunger,     and their multitude is parched with thirst.</div> <div class="poetry top-1">14Therefore Sheol has enlarged its appetite     and opened its mouth beyond measure; the nobility of Jerusalemb</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote b">b</a>] and her multitude go down,     her throng and all who exult in her. 15People are bowed down, everyone is brought low,     and the eyes of the haughty are humbled. 16But the Lord of hosts is exalted by justice,     and the Holy God shows himself holy by righteousness. 17Then the lambs shall graze as in their pasture,     fatlings and kidsc</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote c">c</a>] shall feed among the ruins.</div> <div class="poetry top-1">18Ah, you who drag iniquity along with cords of falsehood,     who drag sin along as with cart ropes, 19who say, “Let him make haste,     let him speed his work     that we may see it; let the plan of the Holy One of Israel hasten to fulfillment,     that we may know it!” 20Ah, you 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! 21Ah, you who are wise in your own eyes,     and shrewd in your own sight! 22Ah, you who are heroes in drinking wine     and valiant at mixing drink, 23who acquit the guilty for a bribe,     and deprive the innocent of their rights!</div> <h3>Foreign Invasion Predicted</h3><div class="poetry">24Therefore, as the tongue of fire devours the stubble,     and as dry grass sinks down in the flame, so their root will become rotten,     and their blossom go up like dust; for they have rejected the instruction of the Lord of hosts,     and have despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.</div> <div class="poetry top-1">25Therefore the anger of the Lord was kindled against his people,     and he stretched out his hand against them and struck them;     the mountains quaked, and their corpses were like refuse     in the streets. For all this his anger has not turned away,     and his hand is stretched out still.</div> <div class="poetry top-1">26He will raise a signal for a nation far away,     and whistle for a people at the ends of the earth; Here they come, swiftly, speedily! 27None of them is weary, none stumbles,     none slumbers or sleeps, not a loincloth is loose,     not a sandal-thong broken; 28their arrows are sharp,     all their bows bent, their horses’ hoofs seem like flint,     and their wheels like the whirlwind. 29Their roaring is like a lion,     like young lions they roar; they growl and seize their prey,     they carry it off, and no one can rescue. 30They will roar over it on that day,     like the roaring of the sea. And if one look to the land—     only darkness and distress; and the light grows dark with clouds.</div> <A name="fen"></a><div class="footnotes"><h4>Footnotes</h4><ol><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Isaiah 5:10">Isaiah 5:10</a> The Heb bath, homer, and ephah are measures of quantity</li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Isaiah 5:14">Isaiah 5:14</a> Heb her nobility</li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Isaiah 5:17">Isaiah 5:17</a> Cn Compare Gk: Heb aliens</li></ol></div> </div></div></div></div></div> </div> </div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Scripture quotations are from the New Revised Standard Version Bible: Catholic Edition, copyright © 1989, 1993 National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. 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