Isaiah 5:1-7

English Standard Version

The Vineyard of the Lord Destroyed

5 Let me sing for my beloved
    my love song concerning his vineyard:
My beloved had ^(A)a vineyard
    on a very fertile hill.
²He dug it and cleared it of stones,
    and planted it with ^(B)choice vines;
he built a watchtower in the midst of it,
    and hewed out a wine vat in it;
and ^(C)he looked for it to yield grapes,
    but it yielded wild grapes.

³And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem
    and men of Judah,
judge between me and my vineyard.
⁴^(D)What more was there to do for my vineyard,
    that I have not done in it?
^(E)When I looked for it to yield grapes,
    why did it yield wild grapes?

⁵And now I will tell you
    what I will do to my vineyard.
I will remove ^(F)its hedge,
    and it shall be devoured;^[a]
^(G)I will break down its wall,
    and it shall be trampled down.
⁶I will make it a waste;
    it shall not be pruned or hoed,
    and ^(H)briers and thorns shall grow up;
^(I)I will also command the clouds
    that they rain no rain upon it.

⁷^(J)For the vineyard of the Lord of hosts
    is the house of Israel,
and the men of Judah
    are his pleasant planting;
and he looked for justice,
    but behold, bloodshed;^[b]
for righteousness,
    but behold, an outcry!^[c]

Read full chapter

Footnotes

Isaiah 5:5 Or grazed over; compare Exodus 22:5
Isaiah 5:7 The Hebrew words for justice and bloodshed sound alike
Isaiah 5:7 The Hebrew words for righteous and outcry sound alike

Isaiah 27

English Standard Version

The Redemption of Israel

27 In that day the Lord with his hard and great and strong ^(A)sword will punish ^(B)Leviathan the fleeing serpent, ^(C)Leviathan the twisting serpent, and he will slay ^(D)the dragon that is in the sea.

²In that day,
^(E)“A pleasant vineyard,^[a] ^(F)sing of it!
³    I, the Lord, am its keeper;
    every moment I water it.
    Lest anyone punish it,
I keep it night and day;
⁴    I have no wrath.
^(G)Would that I had thorns and briers to battle!
    I would march against them,
    I would burn them up together.
⁵Or let them lay hold of my protection,
    let them make peace with me,
    let them make peace with me.”

⁶^(H)In days to come^[b] Jacob shall take root,
Israel shall blossom and put forth shoots
and fill the whole world with fruit.

⁷^(I)Has he struck them ^(J)as he struck those who struck them?
    Or have they been slain ^(K)as their slayers were slain?
⁸^(L)Measure by measure,^[c] by exile you contended with them;
    ^(M)he removed them with his fierce breath^[d] in the day of the east wind.
⁹Therefore by this ^(N)the guilt of Jacob will be atoned for,
    and this will be the full fruit of the removal of his sin:^[e]
^(O)when he makes all the stones of the altars
    like chalkstones crushed to pieces,
    no ^(P)Asherim or incense altars will remain standing.
¹⁰^(Q)For the fortified city is solitary,
    a habitation deserted and forsaken, like the wilderness;
there the calf grazes;
    there it lies down and strips its branches.
¹¹When its boughs are dry, they are broken;
    women come and make a fire of them.
^(R)For this is a people without discernment;
    therefore he who made them will not have compassion on them;
    he who formed them will show them no favor.

¹²In that day ^(S)from the river Euphrates^[f] to the Brook of Egypt the Lord will thresh out the grain, and you will be gleaned one by one, O people of Israel. ¹³And in that day ^(T)a great trumpet will be blown, ^(U)and those who were lost in the land of Assyria and those who were driven out to the land of Egypt ^(V)will come and worship the Lord on the holy mountain at Jerusalem.

Footnotes

Isaiah 27:2 Many Hebrew manuscripts A vineyard of wine
Isaiah 27:6 Hebrew In those to come
Isaiah 27:8 Or By driving her away; the meaning of the Hebrew word is uncertain
Isaiah 27:8 Or wind
Isaiah 27:9 Septuagint and this is the blessing when I take away his sin
Isaiah 27:12 Hebrew from the River