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111 lines
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# Chapter 5
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1 Now let me sing to my Well-beloved
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A song of my Beloved regarding His vineyard:
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My Well-beloved has a vineyard
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On a very fruitful hill.
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2 He dug it up and cleared out its stones,
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And planted it with the choicest vine.
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He built a tower in its midst,
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And also made a winepress in it;
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So He expected it to bring forth good grapes,
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But it brought forth wild grapes.
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3 “And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem and men of Judah,
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Judge, please, between Me and My vineyard.
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4 What more could have been done to My vineyard
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That I have not done in it?
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Why then, when I expected it to bring forth good grapes,
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Did it bring forth wild grapes?
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5 And now, please let Me tell you what I will do to My vineyard:
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I will take away its hedge, and it shall be burned;
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And break down its wall, and it shall be trampled down.
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6 I will lay it waste;
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It shall not be pruned or dug,
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But there shall come up briers and thorns.
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I will also command the clouds
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That they rain no rain on it.”
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7 For the vineyard of the Lord of hosts is the house of Israel,
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And the men of Judah are His pleasant plant.
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He looked for justice, but behold, oppression;
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For righteousness, but behold, a cry for help.
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8 Woe to those who join house to house;
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They add field to field,
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Till there is no place
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Where they may dwell alone in the midst of the land!
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9 In my hearing the Lord of hosts said,
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“Truly, many houses shall be desolate,
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Great and beautiful ones, without inhabitant.
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10 For ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath,
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And a homer of seed shall yield one ephah.”
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11 Woe to those who rise early in the morning,
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That they may follow intoxicating drink;
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Who continue until night, till wine inflames them!
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12 The harp and the strings,
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The tambourine and flute,
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And wine are in their feasts;
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But they do not regard the work of the Lord,
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Nor consider the operation of His hands.
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13 Therefore my people have gone into captivity,
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Because they have no knowledge;
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Their honorable men are famished,
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And their multitude dried up with thirst.
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14 Therefore Sheol has enlarged itself
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And opened its mouth beyond measure;
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Their glory and their multitude and their pomp,
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And he who is jubilant, shall descend into it.
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15 People shall be brought down,
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Each man shall be humbled,
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And the eyes of the lofty shall be humbled.
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16 But the Lord of hosts shall be exalted in judgment,
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And God who is holy shall be hallowed in righteousness.
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17 Then the lambs shall feed in their pasture,
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And in the waste places of the fat ones strangers shall eat.
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18 Woe to those who draw iniquity with cords of vanity,
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And sin as if with a cart rope;
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19 That say, “Let Him make speed and hasten His work,
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That we may see it;
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And let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel draw near and come,
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That we may know it.”
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20 Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil;
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Who put darkness for light, and light for darkness;
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Who put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!
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21 Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes,
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And prudent in their own sight!
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22 Woe to men mighty at drinking wine,
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Woe to men valiant for mixing intoxicating drink,
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23 Who justify the wicked for a bribe,
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And take away justice from the righteous man!
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24 Therefore, as the fire devours the stubble,
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And the flame consumes the chaff,
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So their root will be as rottenness,
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And their blossom will ascend like dust;
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Because they have rejected the law of the Lord of hosts,
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And despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.
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25 Therefore the anger of the Lord is aroused against His people;
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He has stretched out His hand against them
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And stricken them,
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And the hills trembled.
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Their carcasses were as refuse in the midst of the streets.
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For all this His anger is not turned away,
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But His hand is stretched out still.
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26 He will lift up a banner to the nations from afar,
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And will whistle to them from the end of the earth;
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Surely they shall come with speed, swiftly.
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27 No one will be weary or stumble among them,
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No one will slumber or sleep;
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Nor will the belt on their loins be loosed,
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Nor the strap of their sandals be broken;
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28 Whose arrows are sharp,
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And all their bows bent;
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Their horses’ hooves will seem like flint,
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And their wheels like a whirlwind.
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29 Their roaring will be like a lion,
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They will roar like young lions;
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Yes, they will roar
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And lay hold of the prey;
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They will carry it away safely,
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And no one will deliver.
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30 In that day they will roar against them
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Like the roaring of the sea.
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And if one looks to the land,
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Behold, darkness and sorrow;
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And the light is darkened by the clouds. |