Isa 5 | NASB2020 | STEP | Let me sing now for my beloved A song of my beloved about His vineyard . My beloved had a vineyard on a fertile hill .

Isaiah 5

Parable of the Vineyard

1 Let me sing now for my beloved
A song of my beloved about His vineyard.
My beloved had a ^avineyard on ^{▼▼Lit horn, a son of fatness}a fertile hill.
2 He dug it all around, cleared it of stones,
And planted it with ^{▼▼Lit a bright red grape}the ^dchoicest vine.
And He built a tower in the middle of it,
And also carved out a ^{▼▼Or wine press}wine vat in it;
Then He ^fexpected it to produce good grapes,
But it produced only ^{▼▼Or unripe}worthless ones.

3 “And now, you inhabitants of Jerusalem and people of Judah,
^hJudge between Me and My vineyard.
4 “ ⁱWhat more was there to do for My vineyard ^{▼▼Lit and I have not done}that I have not done in it?
Why, when I expected it to produce good grapes did it produce ^{▼▼Or unripe}worthless ones?
5 “So now let Me tell you what I am going to do to My vineyard:
I will ^lremove its hedge and it will be consumed;
I will ^mbreak down its wall and it will become ⁿtrampled ground.
6 “I will ^olay it waste;
It will not be pruned nor hoed,
But briars and thorns will come up.
I will also command the clouds not to ^prain on it.”

7 For the ^qvineyard of the Lord of armies is the house of Israel,
And the people of Judah are His delightful plant.
So He waited for justice, but behold, there was ^rbloodshed;
For righteousness, but behold, a cry for help.

Woes for the Wicked

8 Woe to those who ^sattach house to house and join field to field,
Until there is no more room,
And you alone are a landowner in the midst of the land!
9 In my ears the Lord of armies has sworn, “ ^tMany houses shall certainly become ^udesolate,
Even great and fine ones, without occupants.
10 “For ^vten acres of vineyard will yield only one ^{▼▼About 6 gallons or 23 liters}bath of wine,
And a ^{▼▼About 7.7 cubic feet or 0.22 cubit meters or more
,} ^yhomer of seed will yield only an ^{▼▼About 1 cubic foot or 0.03 cubic meters}ephah of grain.”
11 Woe to those who rise early in the morning so that they may pursue ^aaintoxicating drink,
Who stay up late in the evening so that wine may inflame them!
12 Their banquets are accompanied by lyre and ^abharp, by tambourine and flute, and by wine;
But they ^acdo not pay attention to the deeds of the Lord,
Nor do they consider the work of His hands.

13 Therefore My people go into exile for their ^adlack of knowledge;
And their ^{▼▼Lit glory is men of famine
,} ^afnobles are famished,
And their multitude is parched with thirst.
14 Therefore ^agSheol has enlarged its ^{▼▼Or appetite}throat and opened its mouth beyond measure;
And ^{▼▼Lit her}Jerusalem’s splendor, her multitude, her noise of revelry, and the jubilant within her, descend into it.
15 So the common people will be humbled and the person of importance brought low,
^ajThe eyes of the haughty also will be brought low.
16 But the ^akLord of armies will be ^alexalted in judgment,
And the holy God will show Himself ^amholy in righteousness.
17 ^anThen the lambs will graze as in their pasture,
And strangers will eat in the ruins of the ^{▼▼Lit fat}wealthy.

18 Woe to those who drag ^apwrongdoing with the cords of ^{▼▼Or worthlessness}deceit,
And sin as if with cart ropes;
19 ^arWho say, “Let Him hurry, let Him do His work quickly, so that we may see it;
And let the plan of the Holy One of Israel approach
And come to pass, so that we may know it!”
20 Woe to those who ^ascall evil good, and good evil;
Who ^{▼▼Lit set
,} ^ausubstitute darkness for light and light for darkness;
Who ^{▼▼Lit set}substitute bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter!
21 Woe to those who are ^awwise in their own eyes
And ^{▼▼Lit discerning}clever in their own sight!
22 ^ayWoe to those who are heroes in drinking wine,
And valiant men in mixing intoxicating drink,
23 ^azWho declare the wicked innocent for a bribe,
And ^batake away the ^{▼▼Lit justice}rights of the ones who are in the right!

24 Therefore, ^bcas a tongue of fire consumes stubble,
And dry grass collapses in the flame,
So their ^bdroot will become ^belike rot, and their blossom ^{▼▼Lit ascend}blow away like dust;
For they have ^bgrejected the Law of the Lord of armies,
And discarded the word of the Holy One of Israel.
25 For this reason the ^bhanger of the Lord has burned against His people,
And He has stretched out His hand against them and struck them.
And the ^bimountains quaked, and their ^bjcorpses ^{▼▼Lit were}lay like refuse in the middle of the streets.
^blDespite all this, His anger ^{▼▼Lit has not turned away}is not spent,
But His ^bnhand is still stretched out.

26 He will also lift up a ^boflag to the distant ^{▼▼Lit nations; prob. Assyria}nation,
And ^bqwhistle for it ^brfrom the ends of the earth;
And behold, it will ^bscome with speed swiftly.
27 ^btNo one in it is tired or stumbles,
No one slumbers or sleeps;
Nor is the ^buundergarment at his waist loosened,
Nor his sandal strap broken.
28 ^{▼▼Lit Which, its arrows
,} ^bwIts arrows are sharp and all its bows are bent;
The hoofs of its horses ^{▼▼Lit are regarded as}seem like flint, and its chariot ^bywheels like a storm wind.
29 Its ^bzroaring is like a lioness, and it roars like young lions;
It growls as it ^caseizes the prey
And carries it off with ^cbno one to save it.
30 And it will ^ccroar against it on that day like the roaring of the sea.
If one ^cdlooks across to the land, behold, there is darkness and distress;
Even the light is darkened by its clouds.