Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision 1752

Isaias 5:11-23 Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision 1752 (DRC1752)

11. Woe to you that rise up early in the morning to follow drunkenness, and to drink till the evening, to be inflamed with wine.

12. The harp, and the lyre, and the timbrel, and the pipe, and wine are in your feasts: and the work of the Lord you regard not, nor do you consider the works of his hands.

13. Therefore is my people led away captive, because they had not knowledge, and their nobles have perished with famine, and their multitude were dried up with thirst.

14. Therefore hath hell enlarged her soul, and opened her mouth without any bounds, and their strong ones, and their people, and their high and glorious ones shall go down into it.

15. And man shall be brought down, and man shall be humbled, and the eyes of the lofty shall be brought low.

16. And the Lord of hosts shall be exalted in judgment, and the holy God shall be sanctified in justice.

17. And the lambs shall feed according to their order, and strangers shall eat the deserts turned into fruitfulness.

18. Woe to you that draw iniquity with cords of vanity, and sin as the rope of a cart.

19. That say: Let him make haste, and let his work come quickly, that we may see it: and let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel come, that we may know it.

20. Woe to you 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 you that rue wise in your own eyes, and prudent in your own conceits.

22. Woe to you that are mighty to drink wine, and stout men at drunkenness.

23. That justify the wicked for gifts, and take away the justice of the just from him.