THE BOOKE OF THE Prophet Isaiah. Chapter 5

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1 Vnder the Parable of a Vineyard, God excuseth his seuere iudgement. 8 His iudgements vpon couetousnesse, 11 Vpon lasciuiousnesse, 13 Vpon impietie, 20 and vpon iniustice. 26 The executioners of Gods iudgements.

¹Now will I sing to my welbeloued, a song of my beloued touching his vineyard: my wellbeloued hath a vineyard in a very fruitfull hill.¹

²And hee fenced it, and gathered out the stones thereof, and planted it with the choicest vine, and built a towre in the middest of it, and also made a winepresse therein: and he looked that it should bring foorth grapes, and it brought foorth wilde grapes.²

³And now, O inhabitants of Ierusalem, and men of Iudah, Iudge, I pray you, betwixt me and my Uineyard.

⁴What could haue beene done more to my Uineyard, that I haue not done in it? wherefore when I looked that it should bring foorth grapes, brought it foorth wilde grapes?

⁵And now goe to; I will tell you what I will doe to my Uineyard, I will take away the hedge thereof, and it shall be eaten vp; and breake downe the wall thereof, and it shall be troden downe.⁵

⁶And I will lay it waste; it shall not be pruned, nor digged, but there shall come vp briars and thornes: I will also command the cloudes, that they raine no raine vpon it.

⁷For the Uineyard of the Lord of hostes is the house of Israel, and the men of Iudah his pleasant plant: and he looked for iudgement, but beholde oppression; for righteousnesse, but behold a crie.⁷

⁸¶ Woe vnto them that ioyne house to house, that lay field to field, till there be no place, that they may be placed alone in the midst of the earth.⁸

⁹In mine eares said the Lord of hostes, Of a trueth many houses shall be desolate, euen great and faire without inhabitant.⁹

¹⁰Yea ten acres of vineyard shall yeeld one Bath, and the seed of an Homer shall yeeld an Ephah.

¹¹¶ Woe vnto them that rise vp earely in the morning, that they may follow strong drink, that continue vntill night, till wine enflame them.¹¹

¹²And the harpe and the viole, the tabret and pipe, and wine are in their feasts: but they regard not the worke of the Lord, neither consider the operation of his hands.

¹³¶ Therefore my people are gone into captiuitie, because they haue no knowledge: and their honourable men are famished, aud their multitude dried vp with thirst.¹³

¹⁴Therefore hell hath enlarged her selfe, and opened her mouth without measure: and their glory, and their multitude, and their pompe, and hee that reioyceth, shall descend into it.

¹⁵And the meane man shall bee brought downe, and the mightie man shall be humbled, and the eyes of the loftie shall be humbled.¹⁵

¹⁶But the Lord of hosts shalbe exalted in iudgement, and God that is holy, shall bee sanctified in righteousnesse.¹⁶

¹⁷Then shall the lambes feed after their maner, and the waste places of the fat ones shall strangers eate.

¹⁸Woe vnto them that draw iniquitie with cords of vanitie, and sinne, as it were with a cart rope:

¹⁹That say, Let him make speede, and hasten his worke, that we may see it: and let the counsell of the holy one of Israel draw nigh and come, that wee may know it.

²⁰¶ Woe vnto them that call euill good, and good euill, that put darkenes for light, and light for darkenesse, that put bitter for sweete, and sweete for bitter.²⁰

²¹Woe vnto them that are wise in their owne eyes, and prudent in their owne sight.²¹

²²Woe vnto them that are mightie to drinke wine, and men of strength to mingle strong drinke.

²³Which iustifie the wicked for reward, and take away the righteousnes of the righteous from him.²³

²⁴Therfore as the fire deuoureth the stubble, and the flame consumeth the chaffe, so their root shall be rottennes, and their blossome shall goe vp as dust: because they haue cast away the Lawe of the Lord of hosts, and despised the worde of the Holy One of Israel.²⁴

²⁵Therefore is the anger of the Lord kindled against his people, and he hath stretched foorth his hande against them, and hath smitten them: and the hilles did tremble, and their carkeises were torne in the midst of the streets: for all this, his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.²⁵

²⁶¶ And he will lift vp an ensigne to the nations from farre, and wil hisse vnto them from the end of the earth: and behold, they shall come with speed swiftly.

²⁷None shalbe weary, nor stumble amongst them: none shall slumber nor sleepe, neither shall the girdle of their loynes be loosed, nor the latchet of their shooes be broken.

²⁸Whose arrowes are sharpe, and all their bowes bent, their horses hoofs shall bee counted like flint, and their wheeles like a whirlewind.

²⁹Their roaring shalbe like a lyon, they shall roare like yong lions: yea they shal roare and lay hold of the pray, and shall carie it away safe, and none shall deliuer it.

³⁰And in that day they shall roare against them, like the roaring of the sea: and if one looke vnto the land, behold darkenesse and sorrow, and the light is darkened in the heauens therof.³⁰

Original 1611 KJV Sidenote References for Isaiah Chapter 5

¹ Iere. 2.21. mat. 21.33. mark.12.1. luke 20.9. , Heb. the horne of the sonne of oyle.
² Or, made a wall about it. , Heb. hewed.
⁵ Heb. for a treading.
⁷ Heb. plant of his pleasures. , Heb.a scab.
⁸ Mich.2.2.
⁹ Or, this is in mine eares saith the LORD, &c. , Heb. If not, &c.
¹¹ Prou. 23. 29,30. , Or, pursue them.
¹³ Heb. their glory are men of famine.
¹⁵ Isa. 2.9. 11.17.
¹⁶ Or, the holy God. Heb. The God the holy.
²⁰ Heb. that say concerning euill, It is good,&c.
²¹ Prou.3.7. rom. 12.16 , Heb. before their face.
²³ Prou. 17. 15.
²⁴ Hebr. the tongue of fire.
²⁵ Or as doung. , Cha. 9. 11 16.21. and 10.4.
³⁰ Or, distresse. , Or, when it is light it shalbe darke in the destructions thereof.

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