Isaiah 5-6

New American Standard Bible

Parable of the Vineyard

5 Let me sing now for my beloved
A song of my beloved about His vineyard.
My beloved had a ^(A)vineyard on ^[a]a fertile hill.
²He dug it all around, cleared it of stones,
And planted it with ^[b]the ^(B)choicest vine.
And He built a tower in the middle of it,
And also carved out a ^[c]wine vat in it;
Then He ^(C)expected it to produce good grapes,
But it produced only ^[d]worthless ones.

³“And now, you inhabitants of Jerusalem and people of Judah,
^(D)Judge between Me and My vineyard.
⁴^(E)What more was there to do for My vineyard ^[e]that I have not done in it?
Why, when I expected it to produce good grapes did it produce ^[f]worthless ones?
⁵So now let Me tell you what I am going to do to My vineyard:
I will ^(F)remove its hedge and it will be consumed;
I will ^(G)break down its wall and it will become ^(H)trampled ground.
⁶I will ^(I)lay it waste;
It will not be pruned nor hoed,
But briars and thorns will come up.
I will also command the clouds not to ^(J)rain on it.”

⁷For the ^(K)vineyard of the Lord of armies is the house of Israel,
And the people of Judah are His delightful plant.
So He waited for justice, but behold, there was ^(L)bloodshed;
For righteousness, but behold, a cry for help.

Woes for the Wicked

⁸Woe to those who ^(M)attach house to house and join field to field,
Until there is no more room,
And you alone are a landowner in the midst of the land!
⁹In my ears the Lord of armies has sworn, “^(N)Many houses shall certainly become ^(O)desolate,
Even great and fine ones, without occupants.
¹⁰For ^(P)ten acres of vineyard will yield only one ^[g]bath of wine,
And a ^[h]^(Q)homer of seed will yield only an ^[i]ephah of grain.”
¹¹Woe to those who rise early in the morning so that they may pursue ^(R)intoxicating drink,
Who stay up late in the evening so that wine may inflame them!
¹²Their banquets are accompanied by lyre and ^(S)harp, by tambourine and flute, and by wine;
But they ^(T)do not pay attention to the deeds of the Lord,
Nor do they consider the work of His hands.

¹³Therefore My people go into exile for their ^(U)lack of knowledge;
And their ^[j]^(V)nobles are famished,
And their multitude is parched with thirst.
¹⁴Therefore ^(W)Sheol has enlarged its ^[k]throat and opened its mouth beyond measure;
And ^[l]Jerusalem’s splendor, her multitude, her noise of revelry, and the jubilant within her, descend into it.
¹⁵So the common people will be humbled and the person of importance brought low,
^(X)The eyes of the haughty also will be brought low.
¹⁶But the ^(Y)Lord of armies will be ^(Z)exalted in judgment,
And the holy God will show Himself ^(AA)holy in righteousness.
¹⁷^(AB)Then the lambs will graze as in their pasture,
And strangers will eat in the ruins of the ^[m]wealthy.

¹⁸Woe to those who drag ^(AC)wrongdoing with the cords of ^[n]deceit,
And sin as if with cart ropes;
¹⁹^(AD)Who say, “Let Him hurry, let Him do His work quickly, so that we may see it;
And let the plan of the Holy One of Israel approach
And come to pass, so that we may know it!”
²⁰Woe to those who ^(AE)call evil good, and good evil;
Who ^[o]^(AF)substitute darkness for light and light for darkness;
Who ^[p]substitute bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter!
²¹Woe to those who are ^(AG)wise in their own eyes
And ^[q]clever in their own sight!
²²^(AH)Woe to those who are heroes in drinking wine,
And valiant men in mixing intoxicating drink,
²³^(AI)Who declare the wicked innocent for a bribe,
And ^(AJ)take away the ^[r]rights of the ones who are in the right!

²⁴Therefore, ^(AK)as a tongue of fire consumes stubble,
And dry grass collapses in the flame,
So their ^(AL)root will become ^(AM)like rot, and their blossom ^[s]blow away like dust;
For they have ^(AN)rejected the Law of the Lord of armies,
And discarded the word of the Holy One of Israel.
²⁵For this reason the ^(AO)anger of the Lord has burned against His people,
And He has stretched out His hand against them and struck them.
And the ^(AP)mountains quaked, and their ^(AQ)corpses ^[t]lay like refuse in the middle of the streets.
^(AR)Despite all this, His anger ^[u]is not spent,
But His ^(AS)hand is still stretched out.

²⁶He will also lift up a ^(AT)flag to the distant ^[v]nation,
And ^(AU)whistle for it ^(AV)from the ends of the earth;
And behold, it will ^(AW)come with speed swiftly.
²⁷^(AX)No one in it is tired or stumbles,
No one slumbers or sleeps;
Nor is the ^(AY)undergarment at his waist loosened,
Nor his sandal strap broken.
²⁸^[w]^(AZ)Its arrows are sharp and all its bows are bent;
The hoofs of its horses ^[x]seem like flint, and its chariot ^(BA)wheels like a storm wind.
²⁹Its ^(BB)roaring is like a lioness, and it roars like young lions;
It growls as it ^(BC)seizes the prey
And carries it off with ^(BD)no one to save it.
³⁰And it will ^(BE)roar against it on that day like the roaring of the sea.
If one ^(BF)looks across to the land, behold, there is darkness and distress;
Even the light is darkened by its clouds.

Isaiah’s Vision

6 In the year of ^(BG)King Uzziah’s death ^(BH)I saw the Lord sitting on a throne, lofty and exalted, with the train of His robe filling the temple. ²Seraphim were standing above Him, ^(BI)each having six wings: with two each covered his face, and with two each covered his feet, and with two each flew. ³And one called out to another and said,

“^(BJ)Holy, Holy, Holy, is the Lord of armies.
The ^[y]^(BK)whole earth is full of His glory.”

⁴And the ^[z]foundations of the thresholds trembled at the voice of him who called out, while the ^[aa]^(BL)temple was filling with smoke. ⁵Then I said,

“^(BM)Woe to me, for I am ruined!
Because I am a man of ^(BN)unclean lips,
And I live among a ^(BO)people of unclean lips;
For my eyes have seen the ^(BP)King, the Lord of armies.”

⁶Then one of the seraphim flew to me with a burning coal in his hand, which he had taken from the ^(BQ)altar with tongs. ⁷He ^(BR)touched my mouth with it and said, “Behold, this has touched your lips; and ^(BS)your guilt is taken away and atonement is made for your sin.”

Isaiah’s Commission

⁸Then I heard the ^(BT)voice of the Lord, saying, “Whom shall I send, and who will go for Us?” Then ^(BU)I said, “Here am I. Send me!” ⁹And He said, “Go, and tell this people:

‘Keep on ^(BV)listening, but do not understand;
And keep on looking, but do not gain knowledge.’
¹⁰^(BW)Make the hearts of this people ^[ab]^(BX)insensitive,
Their ears ^[ac]dull,
And their eyes ^[ad]blind,
^(BY)So that they will not see with their eyes,
Hear with their ears,
Understand with their hearts,
And return and be healed.”

¹¹Then I said, “Lord, ^(BZ)how long?” And He answered,

“Until ^(CA)cities are devastated and without inhabitant,
Houses are without people
And the land is utterly desolate,
¹²The Lord has ^(CB)completely removed people,
And there ^[ae]are many ^(CC)forsaken places in the midst of the land.
¹³Yet there will still be a tenth portion in it,
And it will again be subject to burning,
Like a terebinth or an ^(CD)oak
Whose stump remains when it is cut down.
The ^(CE)holy seed is its stump.”

Footnotes

Isaiah 5:1 Lit horn, a son of fatness
Isaiah 5:2 Lit a bright red grape
Isaiah 5:2 Or wine press
Isaiah 5:2 Or unripe
Isaiah 5:4 Lit and I have not done
Isaiah 5:4 Or unripe
Isaiah 5:10 About 6 gallons or 23 liters
Isaiah 5:10 About 7.7 cubic feet or 0.22 cubit meters or more
Isaiah 5:10 About 1 cubic foot or 0.03 cubic meters
Isaiah 5:13 Lit glory is men of famine
Isaiah 5:14 Or appetite
Isaiah 5:14 Lit her
Isaiah 5:17 Lit fat
Isaiah 5:18 Or worthlessness
Isaiah 5:20 Lit set
Isaiah 5:20 Lit set
Isaiah 5:21 Lit discerning
Isaiah 5:23 Lit justice
Isaiah 5:24 Lit ascend
Isaiah 5:25 Lit were
Isaiah 5:25 Lit has not turned away
Isaiah 5:26 Lit nations; prob. Assyria
Isaiah 5:28 Lit Which, its arrows
Isaiah 5:28 Lit are regarded as
Isaiah 6:3 Lit fullness of the whole earth is His glory
Isaiah 6:4 Lit door sockets
Isaiah 6:4 Lit house
Isaiah 6:10 Lit fat
Isaiah 6:10 Lit heavy
Isaiah 6:10 Lit sealed over
Isaiah 6:12 Or forsakenness will be great

Ephesians 1

New American Standard Bible

The Blessings of Redemption

1 Paul, ^(A)an apostle of ^(B)Christ Jesus ^[a]^(C)by the will of God,

To the ^[b]^(D)saints who are ^[c]at ^(E)Ephesus and ^(F)are faithful in ^(G)Christ Jesus: ²^(H)Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

³^(I)Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in ^(J)the heavenly places in Christ, ⁴just as ^(K)He chose us in Him before ^(L)the foundation of the world, that we would be ^(M)holy and blameless before ^[d]Him. ^(N)In love ⁵^[e]He ^(O)predestined us to ^(P)adoption as sons and daughters through Jesus Christ to Himself, ^(Q)according to the good pleasure of His will, ⁶^(R)to the praise of the glory of His grace, with which He favored us in ^(S)the Beloved. ⁷^(T)In ^[f]Him we have ^(U)redemption ^(V)through His blood, the ^(W)forgiveness of our wrongdoings, according to ^(X)the riches of His grace ⁸which He ^[g]lavished on ^[h]us. In all wisdom and insight ⁹He ^[i]^(Y)made known to us the mystery of His will, ^(Z)according to His good pleasure which He ^(AA)set forth in Him, ¹⁰regarding His plan of ^(AB)the fullness of the times, ^(AC)to bring all things together in Christ, things ^[j]in the heavens and things on the earth. ¹¹^[k]In Him we also ^(AD)have obtained an inheritance, having been ^(AE)predestined ^(AF)according to the purpose of Him who works all things ^(AG)in accordance with the plan of His will, ¹²to the end that ^[l]we who were the first to hope in the ^[m]Christ would be ^(AH)to the praise of His glory. ¹³In ^[n]Him, ^[o]you also, after listening to ^(AI)the message of truth, the gospel of your salvation—having also ^[p]believed, you were ^(AJ)sealed in ^[q]Him with ^(AK)the Holy Spirit of the promise, ¹⁴who is a ^(AL)first installment of ^(AM)our inheritance, in regard to the ^(AN)redemption of ^(AO)God’s own possession, ^(AP)to the praise of His glory.

¹⁵For this reason I too, ^(AQ)having heard of the faith in the Lord Jesus which exists among you and ^[r]your love for ^(AR)all the ^[s]saints, ¹⁶^(AS)do not cease giving thanks for you, ^(AT)while making mention of you in my prayers; ¹⁷that the ^(AU)God of our Lord Jesus Christ, ^(AV)the Father of glory, may give you a spirit of ^(AW)wisdom and of ^(AX)revelation in the ^[t]knowledge of Him. ¹⁸I pray that ^(AY)the eyes of your heart ^[u]may be enlightened, so that you will know what is the ^(AZ)hope of His ^(BA)calling, what are ^(BB)the riches of the glory of ^(BC)His inheritance in ^(BD)the ^[v]saints, ¹⁹and what is the ^[w]boundless greatness of His power toward us who believe. ^(BE)These are in accordance with the working of the ^(BF)strength of His might ²⁰which He brought about in Christ, when He ^(BG)raised Him from the dead and ^(BH)seated Him at His right hand in ^(BI)the heavenly places, ²¹far above ^(BJ)all rule and authority and power and dominion, and every ^(BK)name that is named, not only in ^(BL)this age but also in the one to come. ²²And He ^(BM)put all things in subjection under His feet, and made Him ^(BN)head over all things to the church, ²³which is His ^(BO)body, the ^(BP)fullness of Him who ^(BQ)fills ^(BR)all in all.