Isaiah 5:16-26

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

¹⁶ And the Lord of hosts shall be exalted in judgment, and the holy God shall be sanctified in justice.

¹⁷ And the lambs shall feed according to their order, and strangers shall eat the deserts turned into fruitfulness.

¹⁸ Woe to you that draw iniquity with cords of vanity, and sin as the rope of a cart.

¹⁹ That say: Let him make haste, and let his work come quickly, that we may see it: and let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel come, that we may know it.

²⁰ Woe to you that call evil good, and good evil: that put darkness for light, and light for darkness: that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter.

²¹ Woe to you that are wise in your own eyes, and prudent in your own conceits.

²² Woe to you that are mighty to drink wine, and stout men at drunkenness.

²³ That justify the wicked for gifts, and take away the justice of the just from him.

²⁴ Therefore as the tongue of the fire devoureth the stubble, and the heat of the dame consumeth it: so shall their root be as ashes, and their bud shall go up as dust: for they have cast away the law of the Lord of hosts, and have blasphemed the word of the Holy One of Israel.

²⁵ Therefore is the wrath of the Lord kindled against his people, and he hath stretched out his hand upon them, and struck them: and the mountains were troubled, and their carcasses became as dung in the midst of the streets. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.

²⁶ And he will lift up a sign to the nations afar off, and will whistle to them from the ends of the earth: and behold they shall come with speed swiftly.