Isaiah 5

1Let me sing for my well beloved a song of my beloved about his vineyard. My beloved had a vineyard on a very fruitful hill.Cross-references: Deut 31:19 · Judg 5:1 · Ps 45:1 · Ps 80:8 · Ps 101:1 · Song 2:16 · +10 more

2He dug it up, gathered out its stones, planted it with the choicest vine, built a tower in the middle of it, and also cut out a wine press in it. He looked for it to yield grapes, but it yielded wild grapes.Cross-references: Ex 33:16 · Num 23:9 · Deut 32:6 · Deut 32:8 · Deut 32:32 · Judg 16:4 · +19 more

3“Now, inhabitants of Jerusalem and men of Judah, please judge between me and my vineyard.Cross-references: Ps 50:4 · Ps 51:4 · Jer 2:4 · Mic 6:2 · Matt 21:40 · Mark 12:9 · +3 more

4What could have been done more to my vineyard, that I have not done in it? Why, when I looked for it to yield grapes, did it yield wild grapes?Cross-references: 2Chr 36:14 · Isa 1:5 · Jer 2:5 · Jer 2:30 · Jer 6:29 · Ezek 24:13 · +3 more

5Now 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.Cross-references: Gen 11:4 · Gen 11:7 · Lev 26:31 · Deut 28:49 · 2Chr 36:4 · Neh 2:3 · +13 more

6I will lay it a wasteland. It won’t be pruned or hoed, but it will grow briers and thorns. I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain on it.”Cross-references: Lev 26:33 · Deut 28:23 · Deut 29:23 · 1Ki 17:1 · 2Chr 36:19 · Isa 5:9 · +16 more

7For the vineyard of Yahweh of Armies is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasant plant. He looked for justice, but behold, oppression, for righteousness, but behold, a cry of distress.Cross-references: Gen 4:10 · Ex 2:23 · Ex 3:7 · Ex 22:21 · Deut 15:9 · Neh 5:1 · +25 more

8Woe 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!Cross-references: 1Ki 21:16 · Jer 22:13 · Ezek 11:15 · Ezek 33:24 · Mic 2:2 · Hab 2:9 · +2 more

9In my ears, Yahweh of Armies says: “Surely many houses will be desolate, even great and beautiful, unoccupied.Cross-references: 2Chr 36:21 · Isa 5:6 · Isa 6:11 · Isa 22:14 · Isa 27:10 · Amos 3:7 · +4 more

10For ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and a homer of seed shall yield an ephah.”Cross-references: Lev 26:26 · Lev 27:16 · Ezek 45:10 · Joel 1:17 · Hag 1:6 · Hag 1:9 · +1 more

11Woe 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!Cross-references: Prov 20:1 · Prov 23:29 · Prov 23:32 · Eccl 10:16 · Isa 5:22 · Isa 28:1 · +8 more

12The harp, lyre, tambourine, and flute, with wine, are at their feasts; but they don’t respect the work of Yahweh, neither have they considered the operation of his hands.Cross-references: Gen 31:27 · Job 21:11 · Job 34:27 · Ps 28:5 · Ps 92:5 · Isa 5:19 · +7 more

13Therefore my people go into captivity for lack of knowledge. Their honorable men are famished, and their multitudes are parched with thirst.Cross-references: 2Ki 17:6 · 2Chr 28:5 · Isa 1:3 · Isa 1:7 · Isa 27:11 · Isa 42:22 · +12 more

14Therefore Sheol has enlarged its desire, and opened its mouth without measure; and their glory, their multitude, their pomp, and he who rejoices among them, descend into it.Cross-references: Num 16:30 · 1Sam 25:36 · 2Sam 13:28 · Ps 49:14 · Ps 55:15 · Prov 1:12 · +17 more

15So man is brought low, mankind is humbled, and the eyes of the arrogant ones are humbled;Cross-references: Ex 9:17 · Job 40:11 · Ps 62:9 · Isa 2:9 · Isa 2:11 · Isa 2:17 · +13 more

16but Yahweh of Armies is exalted in justice, and God the Holy One is sanctified in righteousness.Cross-references: Lev 10:3 · 1Chr 29:11 · Ps 9:16 · Ps 21:13 · Ps 46:10 · Isa 2:11 · +20 more

17Then the lambs will graze as in their pasture, and strangers will eat the ruins of the rich.Cross-references: Deut 28:33 · Deut 32:15 · Neh 9:37 · Ps 17:10 · Ps 17:14 · Ps 73:7 · +17 more

18Woe to those who draw iniquity with cords of falsehood, and wickedness as with cart rope,Cross-references: Judg 17:5 · Judg 17:13 · 2Sam 16:20 · Ps 10:11 · Ps 14:1 · Ps 36:2 · +15 more

19who say, “Let him make haste, let him hasten his work, that we may see it; let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel draw near and come, that we may know it!”Cross-references: Isa 30:11 · Isa 66:5 · Jer 5:12 · Jer 17:15 · Jer 23:18 · Jer 23:36 · +4 more

20Woe 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!Cross-references: Job 17:12 · Prov 17:15 · Amos 5:7 · Mal 2:17 · Mal 3:15 · Matt 6:22 · +7 more

21Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight!Cross-references: Job 11:12 · Prov 3:7 · Prov 26:12 · Prov 26:16 · John 9:41 · Rom 1:22 · +3 more

22Woe to those who are mighty to drink wine, and champions at mixing strong drink;Cross-references: Prov 23:19 · Isa 5:11 · Isa 28:1 · Isa 28:7 · Isa 56:12 · Hab 2:15

23who acquit the guilty for a bribe, but deny justice for the innocent!Cross-references: Ex 23:6 · Deut 16:19 · 1Ki 21:13 · 2Chr 19:7 · Ps 94:21 · Prov 17:15 · +10 more

24Therefore as the tongue of fire devours the stubble, and as the dry grass sinks down in the flame, so their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust, because they have rejected the law of Yahweh of Armies, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.Cross-references: Ex 15:7 · 1Sam 15:23 · 1Sam 15:26 · 2Sam 12:9 · 2Ki 17:14 · Neh 9:26 · +24 more

25Therefore Yahweh’s anger burns against his people, and he has stretched out his hand against them and has struck them. The mountains tremble, and their dead bodies are as refuse in the middle of the streets. For all this, his anger is not turned away, but his hand is still stretched out.Cross-references: Lev 26:14 · Deut 31:17 · Deut 32:19 · 1Ki 14:11 · 1Ki 16:4 · 1Ki 21:24 · +32 more

26He will lift up a banner to the nations from far away, and he will whistle for them from the end of the earth. Behold, they will come speedily and swiftly.Cross-references: Deut 28:49 · Ps 72:8 · Isa 7:18 · Isa 11:12 · Isa 13:2 · Isa 13:5 · +11 more

27No one shall be weary nor stumble among them; no one shall slumber nor sleep, neither shall the belt of their waist be untied, nor the strap of their sandals be broken,Cross-references: Deut 32:25 · 1Ki 2:5 · Job 12:18 · Job 12:21 · Ps 18:32 · Ps 93:1 · +6 more

28whose arrows are sharp, and all their bows bent. Their horses’ hoofs will be like flint, and their wheels like a whirlwind.Cross-references: Judg 5:22 · Ps 7:12 · Ps 45:5 · Ps 120:4 · Isa 21:1 · Jer 5:16 · +5 more

29Their roaring will be like a lioness. They will roar like young lions. Yes, they shall roar, and seize their prey and carry it off, and there will be no one to deliver.Cross-references: Gen 49:9 · Num 24:9 · Ps 50:22 · Isa 10:6 · Isa 31:4 · Isa 42:22 · +10 more

30They will roar against them in that day like the roaring of the sea. If one looks to the land, behold, darkness and distress. The light is darkened in its clouds.Cross-references: Ex 10:21 · Ps 93:3 · Isa 8:22 · Isa 13:10 · Jer 4:23 · Jer 6:23 · +9 more