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1 Now will I sing to my wellbeloved a song of my beloved touching his vineyard. My wellbeloved has a vineyard in a very fruitful hill:
2 And he fenced it, and gathered out the stones of it, and planted it with the choicest vine, and built a tower in the midst of it, and also made a winepress therein: and he looked that it should bring forth grapes, and it brought forth wild grapes.
3 And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem, and men of Judah, judge, I pray you, between me and my vineyard.
4 What could have been done more to my vineyard, that I have not done in it? why, when I looked that it should bring forth grapes, brought it forth wild grapes?
5 And now go to; I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard: I will take away the hedge of it, and it will be eaten up; [and] break down the wall of it, and it will be trodden down:
6 And I will lay it waste: it will not be pruned, nor digged; but there will come up briers and thorns: I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it.
7 For the vineyard of the LORD [Yahweh] of hosts [is] the house of Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasant plant: and he looked for judgment, but behold oppression; for righteousness, but behold a cry.
8 Woe to them that join 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!
9 In my ears [said] the LORD [Yahweh] of hosts, Of a truth many houses will be desolate, [even] great and fair, without inhabitant.
10 Yes, ten acres of vineyard will yield one bath, and the seed of a homer will yield an ephah.
11 Woe to them that rise up early in the morning, [that] they may follow strong drink; that continue until night, [till] wine inflame them!
12 And the harp, and the viol, the tabret, and pipe, and wine, are in their feasts: but they regard not the work of the LORD [Yahweh], neither consider the operation of his hands.
13 Therefore my people are gone into captivity, because [they have] no knowledge: and their honorable men [are] famished, and their multitude dried up with thirst.
14 Therefore hell has enlarged herself, and opened her mouth without measure: and their glory, and their multitude, and their pomp, and he that rejoices, will descend into it.
15 And the mean man will be brought down, and the mighty man will be humbled, and the eyes of the lofty will be humbled:
16 But the LORD [Yahweh] of hosts will be exalted in judgment, and God that is holy will be sanctified in righteousness.
17 Then will the lambs feed after their manner, and the waste places of the fat ones will strangers eat.
18 Woe to them that draw iniquity with cords of vanity, and sin as it were with a cart rope:
19 That say, Let him make speed, [and] hasten his work, that we may see [it]: and let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel draw near and come, that we may know [it]!
20 Woe to them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!
21 Woe to [them that are] wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight!
22 Woe to [them that are] mighty to drink wine, and men of strength to mingle strong drink:
23 Which justify the wicked for reward, and take away the righteousness of the righteous from him!
24 Therefore as the fire devours the stubble, and the flame consumes the chaff, [so] their root will be as rottenness, and their blossom will go up as dust: because they have cast away the law of the LORD [Yahweh] of hosts, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.
25 Therefore is the anger of the LORD [Yahweh] kindled against his people, and he has stretched forth his hand against them, and has smitten them: and the hills trembled, and their carcases [were] torn in the midst of the streets. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand [is] stretched out still.
26 And he will lift up an ensign to the nations from far, and will hiss to them from the end of the earth: and, behold, they will come with speed swiftly:
27 None will be weary nor stumble among them; none will slumber nor sleep; neither will the girdle of their loins be loosed, nor the latchet of their shoes be broken:
28 Whose arrows [are] sharp, and all their bows bent, their horses' hoofs will be counted like flint, and their wheels like a whirlwind:
29 Their roaring [will be] like a lion, they will roar like young lions: yes, they will roar, and lay hold of the prey, and will carry [it] away safe, and none will deliver [it].
30 And in that day they will roar against them like the roaring of the sea: and if [one] look to the land, behold darkness [and] sorrow, and the light is darkened in the heavens of it.