KJ3 Literal Translation
Isaiah 5
Jehovah's judgments on various sins.
1Now I will sing to my Beloved a song of my Beloved concerning His vineyard: There was a vineyard to My Beloved in a horn, a son of fatness.
2And He dug about it, and cleared it of stones, and planted it with the choicest vine, and built a tower in its midst, and also hewed out a wine vat in it. And He waited for it to produce grapes, but it produced rotten grapes.
3And now, ones living in Jerusalem and men of Judah, I ask you, judge between Me and My vineyard.
4What more could have been done to My vineyard that I have not done in it? Who knows? I waited for it to produce grapes, but it produced rotten grapes.
5And now, please, I will make known to you what I will do to My vineyard. I will turn aside its hedge, and it will be burned. I will breach its wall, and it will become a trampling place.
6And I will lay it waste; it shall not be pruned and not hoed; but briers and thorns shall come up. And on the clouds I will command the rain from raining on it.
7For the vineyard of Jehovah of Hosts is the house of Israel, and the man of Judah is His delightful plant. And He waited for justice, but behold, bloodshed; for righteousness, but behold, a cry!
8Woe to those touching house to house, bringing near field to field until the end of space! And you are made to dwell alone in the midst of the land!
9Jehovah of Hosts has sworn in my ears, If not many houses shall be a waste, large and beautiful ones without one living in them.
10Yea, ten acres of vineyard shall produce one bath, and the seed of a homer shall produce an ephah.
11Woe to those who rise early in the morning to pursue fermented drink, tarrying in the twilight while wine inflames them!
12And the lyre and the harp, the timbrel and flute, and wine are at their feasts, but they do not look upon the work of Jehovah; yea, they do see. Therefore My people will go into exile without knowledge, and his men of glory into famine; and his multitude is parched with thirst.
13Therefore Sheol has enlarged its appetite, and opened its mouth without measure, and her glory and her multitude, and her uproar, he who exults in her, shall go down in it.
14And man is bowed down, and man is humbled, and the eyes of the proud ones are humbled.
15But Jehovah of Hosts is exalted in judgment, and God the Holy One is seen holy in righteousness.
16Then the lambs shall feed as in their pasture, and ones being sojourners shall eat the waste places of the fatlings.
17Woe to those who draw iniquity with cords of vanity, and sin as with ropes of a cart;
18who say, Let Him hurry and hasten His work, so that we may see; and let the purpose of the Holy One of Israel draw near and come, so that we may know!
19Woe to those who say to an evil thing, a good thing; and to a good thing, an evil thing; who put darkness for light, and light for darkness; who put a bitter thing for a sweet thing, and a sweet thing for a bitter thing!
20Woe to the wise ones in their own eyes, and discerning in their own faces!
21Woe to the mighty ones to drink wine, and men of strength to mix fermented drink;
22who justify the wicked one for a bribe, and turn aside the righteousness of the righteous ones from him!
23Therefore, as the tongue of fire devours the stubble, and the dry grass falls in the flame; their root shall be like rottenness, and their blossoms shall go up like dust, because they have rejected the Law of Jehovah of Hosts; and despised the Word of the Holy One of Israel.
24On account of this the anger of Jehovah is kindled on His people, and He has stretched out His hand against them, and has struck them; and the mountains quaked, and their corpses were as offal in the midst of the streets. In all this His anger does not turn back, but His hand is stretched out still.
25And He will lift up a banner to nations from afar, and hiss to them from the ends of the earth; and, behold, it shall come with swift speed!
26None shall be weary and none stumble in it; not one will slumber and not one sleep; and not shall the waist cloth of their loins be opened, and not the thong of their sandals broken;
27whose arrows are sharp, and all their bows bent; their horses' hooves shall seem like flint, and their wheels like a windstorm.
28Its roaring shall be like a lion; they shall roar like young lions. Yea, they roar and seize the prey and bring it away safely; and not one shall deliver.
29And in that day they shall roar against them like the roaring of the sea; when one looks to the land, and behold, darkness! Distress! And light shall be darkened by its clouds.
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