Isaiah 5:8-12

Common English Bible

Sayings of doom

⁸Doom to those who acquire house after house,
    who annex field to field until there is no more space left
    and only you live alone in the land.
⁹I heard the Lord of heavenly forces say this:^[a]
Many houses will become total ruins,
    large, fine houses, with no one living in them.
¹⁰Ten acres of vineyard
    will produce just one bath,^[b]
    and a homer of seed
        will produce only an ephah.

¹¹Doom to those who wake up early in the morning to run after beer,
    to those who stay up late, lit up by wine.
¹²They party with lyre and harp, tambourine, flute, and wine;
    but they ignore the Lord’s work;
        they can’t see what God is doing.

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Footnotes

Isaiah 5:9 Heb lacks say this.
Isaiah 5:10 One bath is approximately twenty quarts, the same as an ephah; one homer contains ten ephahs (or baths) of grain.

Isaiah 5:18-23

Common English Bible

¹⁸Doom to those who drag guilt along with cords of fraud,
    and haul sin as if with cart ropes,
¹⁹    who say, “God should hurry and work faster so we can see;
    let the plan of Israel’s holy one come quickly, so we can understand it.”

²⁰Doom to those who call evil good and good evil,
who present darkness as light and light as darkness,
who make bitterness sweet and sweetness bitter.

²¹Doom to those
who consider themselves wise,
who think of themselves as clever.

²²Doom to the wine-swigging warriors,
    mighty at mixing drinks,
²³    who spare the guilty for bribes,
    and rob the innocent of their rights.

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