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and I will lay it waste; it shall not be pruned nor hoed; but there shall come up briers and thorns: I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it. For the vineyard of Jehovah of hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah [a]his pleasant plant: and he looked for justice, but, behold, [b]oppression; for righteousness, but, behold, a cry.

Woe unto them that join house to house, that lay field to field, till there be no room, and ye be made to dwell alone in the midst of the land!

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 5:7 Hebrew the plant of his delight.
  2. Isaiah 5:7 Or, shedding of blood