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Isaiah 5 :: Brenton's English Septuagint (BES)

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 5:1 - Now I will sing to my beloved a song of my beloved concerning my vineyard. My beloved had a vineyard on a [fn]high hill in a fertile place.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 5:2 - 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 for it to bring forth grapes, and it brought forth thorns.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 5:3 - And now, ye dwellers in Jerusalem, and every man of Juda, judge between me and my vineyard.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 5:4 - What shall I do any more to my vineyard, that I have not done to it? Whereas I expected it to bring forth grapes, but it has brought forth thorns.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 5:5 - 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 left to be trodden down.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 5:6 - 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.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 5:7 - For the vineyard of the Lord of hosts is the house of Israel, and [fn]the men of Juda his beloved plant: I expected it to bring forth judgment, and it brought forth iniquity; and not righteousness, but a cry.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 5:8 - Woe to them that join house to house, and add field to field, that they may take away something of their neighbour's: will ye dwell alone upon the land?
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 5:9 - 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.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 5:10 - For where ten yoke of oxen plough the land shall yield one jar-full, and he that sows six homers shall produce three measures.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 5:11 - Woe to them that rise up in the morning, and follow strong drink; who wait at it till the evening: for the wine shall inflame them.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 5:12 - 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.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 5:13 - Therefore my people have been taken captive, because they know not the Lord: and there has been a multitude of dead bodies, because of hunger and of thirst for water.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 5:14 - Therefore [fn]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 into it.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 5:15 - And the mean man shall be brought low, and the great man shall be disgraced, and the lofty eyes shall be brought low.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 5:16 - But the Lord of hosts shall be exalted in judgment, and the holy God shall be glorified in righteousness.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 5:17 - And they that were spoiled shall be fed as bulls, and lambs shall feed on the waste places of them that are taken away.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 5:18 - Woe to them that draw sins to them as with a long rope, and iniquities as with a thong of the heifer's yoke:
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 5:19 - who say, Let him speedily hasten what he will do, that we may see it: and let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel come, that we may know it.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 5:20 - Woe to them that call evil good, and good evil; who make darkness light, and light darkness; who make bitter sweet, and sweet bitter.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 5:21 - Woe to them that are wise in their own conceit, and knowing in their own sight.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 5:22 - Woe to the strong ones of you that drink wine, and the mighty ones that mingle strong drink:
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 5:23 - who justify the ungodly for rewards, and take away the righteousness of the righteous.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 5:24 - 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.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 5:25 - 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 carcases 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 [fn]raised.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 5:26 - 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.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 5:27 - 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.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 5:28 - Whose arrows are sharp, and their bows bent; their horses' hoofs are counted as solid rock: their chariot-wheels are as a storm.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 5:29 - 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 them forth, and there shall be none to deliver them.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 5:30 - 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, there shall be thick darkness in their perplexity.
BES Footnotes
Gr. horn, so Heb.
Gr. a man.
Gr. Hades.
Gr. High.
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Translation of the Greek Septuagint into English by Sir Lancelot Charles Lee Brenton, originally published in 1851 and is now in the Public Domain

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