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Isaiah 5 :: Revised Standard Version (RSV)

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 5:1 - Let me sing for my beloved a love song concerning his vineyard: My beloved had a vineyard on a very fertile hill.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 5:2 - He digged 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.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 5:3 - And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem and men of Judah, judge, I pray you, between me and my vineyard.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 5:4 - 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?

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 5:5 - And 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.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 5:6 - 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.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 5:7 - 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; for righteousness, but behold, a cry!

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 5:8 - 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.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 5:9 - The LORD of hosts has sworn in my hearing: "Surely many houses shall be desolate, large and beautiful houses, without inhabitant.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 5:10 - For ten acres of vineyard shall yield but one bath, and a homer of seed shall yield but an ephah."

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 5:11 - Woe to those who rise early in the morning, that they may run after strong drink, who tarry late into the evening till wine inflames them!

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 5:12 - They have lyre and harp, timbrel and flute and wine at their feasts; but they do not regard the deeds of the LORD, or see the work of his hands.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 5:13 - Therefore my people go into exile for want of knowledge; their honored men are dying of hunger, and their multitude is parched with thirst.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 5:14 - Therefore Sheol has enlarged its appetite and opened its mouth beyond measure, and the nobility of Jerusalem and her multitude go down, her throng and he who exults in her.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 5:15 - Man is bowed down, and men are brought low, and the eyes of the haughty are humbled.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 5:16 - But the LORD of hosts is exalted in justice, and the Holy God shows himself holy in righteousness.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 5:17 - Then shall the lambs graze as in their pasture, fatlings and kids shall feed among the ruins.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 5:18 - Woe to those who draw iniquity with cords of falsehood, who draw sin as with cart ropes,

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 5:19 - who say: "Let him make haste, let him speed his work that we may see it; let the purpose of the Holy One of Israel draw near, and let it come, that we may know it!"

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 5:20 - 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!

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 5:21 - Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes, and shrewd in their own sight!

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 5:22 - Woe to those who are heroes at drinking wine, and valiant men in mixing strong drink,

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 5:23 - who acquit the guilty for a bribe, and deprive the innocent of his right!

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 5:24 - 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.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 5:25 - Therefore the anger of the LORD was kindled against his people, and he stretched out his hand against them and smote them, and the mountains quaked; and their corpses were as refuse in the midst of the streets. For all this his anger is not turned away and his hand is stretched out still.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 5:26 - He will raise a signal for a nation afar off, and whistle for it from the ends of the earth; and lo, swiftly, speedily it comes!

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 5:27 - None is weary, none stumbles, none slumbers or sleeps, not a waistcloth is loose, not a sandal-thong broken;

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 5:28 - their arrows are sharp, all their bows bent, their horses' hoofs seem like flint, and their wheels like the whirlwind.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 5:29 - 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.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 5:30 - They will growl over it on that day, like the roaring of the sea. And if one look to the land, behold, darkness and distress; and the light is darkened by its clouds.
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Source: Transcribed from: The Holy Bible: Revised Standard Version containing the Old and New Testaments, translated from the original tongues: being the version set forth A.D. 1611, revised A.D. 1881-1885 and A.D. 1901: compared with the most ancient authorities and revised A.D. 1946-52. — 2nd ed. of New Testament A.D. 1971. There should be enough in the rest of the description to identify the text.

Language: English

Availability: Freely available for non-commercial use provided that this header is included in its entirety with any copy distributed.

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