Isaiah 5:8-12
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Social Injustice Denounced
8 Woe to those who join house to house,
who add field to field,
until there is room for no one,
and you are left to live alone
in the midst of the land!(A)
9 The Lord of hosts has sworn in my hearing:
Surely many houses shall be desolate,
large and beautiful houses, without inhabitant.(B)
10 For ten acres of vineyard shall yield but one bath,
and a homer of seed shall yield a mere ephah.[a](C)
11 Woe to those who rise early in the morning
in pursuit of strong drink,
who linger in the evening
to be inflamed by wine,(D)
12 whose feasts consist of lyre and harp,
tambourine and flute and wine,
but who do not regard the deeds of the Lord
or see the work of his hands!(E)
Footnotes
- 5.10 The Heb bath, homer, and ephah are measures of quantity
Isaiah 5:18-23
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18 Woe to those who drag iniquity along with cords of falsehood,
who drag sin along as with cart ropes,(A)
19 who say, “Let him make haste;
let him speed his work
that we may see it;
let the plan of the Holy One of Israel hasten to fulfillment,
that we may know it!”(B)
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!(C)
21 Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes
and shrewd in their own sight!(D)
22 Woe to those who are heroes in drinking wine
and valiant at mixing drink,(E)
23 who acquit the guilty for a bribe
and deprive the innocent of their rights!(F)
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