Good News Bible Anglicised

Isaiah 5:10-18 Good News Bible Anglicised (GNBDC)

10. The grapevines growing on ten hectares of land will yield only eight litres of wine. 180 litres of seed will produce only eighteen litres of corn.”

11. You are doomed! You get up early in the morning to start drinking, and you spend long evenings getting drunk.

12. At your feasts you have harps and tambourines and flutes — and wine. But you don't understand what the Lord is doing,

13. and so you will be carried away as prisoners. Your leaders will starve to death, and the common people will die of thirst.

14. The world of the dead is hungry for them, and it opens its mouth wide. It gulps down the nobles of Jerusalem along with the noisy crowd of common people.

15. Everyone will be disgraced, and all who are proud will be humbled.

16. But the Lord Almighty shows his greatness by doing what is right, and he reveals his holiness by judging his people.

17. In the ruins of the cities lambs will eat grass and young goats will find pasture.

18. You are doomed! You are unable to break free from your sins.