5. Now I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard.I will take away its hedge, and it will be eaten up.I will break down its wall, and it will be trampled down.
6. I will lay it a wasteland.It won’t be pruned nor hoed,but it will grow briers and thorns.I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain on it.”
7. For the vineyard of the Lord of Hosts is the house of Israel,and the men of Judah his pleasant plant:and he looked for justice, but, behold, oppression;for righteousness, but, behold, a cry of distress.
8. Woe to those who join house to house,who lay field to field, until there is no room,and you are made to dwell alone in the middle of the land!
9. In my ears, the Lord of Hosts says: “Surely many houses will be desolate,even great and beautiful, unoccupied.
10. For ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath,and a homer of seed shall yield an efah.”
11. Woe to those who rise up early in the morning, that they may follow strong drink;who stay late into the night, until wine inflames them!
12. The harp, lyre, tambourine, and flute, with wine, are at their feasts;but they don’t respect the work of the Lord,neither have they considered the operation of his hands.
13. Therefore my people go into captivity for lack of knowledge.Their honourable men are famished,and their multitudes are parched with thirst.
14. Therefore Sheol has enlarged its desire,and opened its mouth without measure;and their glory, their multitude, their pomp, and he who rejoices amongst them, descend into it.
15. So man is brought low,mankind is humbled,and the eyes of the arrogant ones are humbled;
16. but the Lord of Hosts is exalted in justice,and God the Holy One is sanctified in righteousness.
17. Then the lambs will graze as in their pasture,and strangers will eat the ruins of the rich.
18. Woe to those who draw iniquity with cords of falsehood,and wickedness as with cart rope;
19. Who say, “Let him make speed, let him 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 those who call evil good, and good evil;who put darkness for light,and light for darkness;who put bitter for sweet,and sweet for bitter!
21. Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes,and prudent in their own sight!
22. Woe to those who are mighty to drink wine,and champions at mixing strong drink;