Isaiah 5:8-30
English Standard Version
Woe to the Wicked
8 Woe to those who (A)join house to house,
who add field to field,
until there is no more room,
and you are made to dwell alone
in the midst of the land.
9 The Lord of hosts has sworn in my hearing:
(B)“Surely many houses shall be desolate,
large and beautiful houses, without inhabitant.
10 (C)For ten acres[a] of vineyard shall yield but one bath,
and a (D)homer of seed shall yield but an ephah.”[b]
11 Woe to those who (E)rise early in the morning,
that they may run after strong drink,
who tarry late into the evening
as wine inflames them!
12 (F)They have lyre and harp,
tambourine and flute and wine at their feasts,
(G)but they do not regard the deeds of the Lord,
or see the work of his hands.
13 Therefore my people go into exile
(H)for lack of knowledge;[c]
their (I)honored men go hungry,[d]
and their multitude is parched with thirst.
14 Therefore Sheol has (J)enlarged its appetite
and opened (K)its mouth beyond measure,
and the nobility of Jerusalem[e] and her multitude will go down,
her revelers and he who (L)exults in her.
15 (M)Man is humbled, and each one is brought low,
and the eyes of the haughty[f] are brought low.
16 (N)But the Lord of hosts is exalted[g] in justice,
and the Holy God shows himself holy in righteousness.
17 Then shall the lambs graze (O)as in their pasture,
and (P)nomads shall eat among the ruins of the rich.
18 Woe to those who draw iniquity with (Q)cords of falsehood,
who draw sin as with cart ropes,
19 who say: (R)“Let him be quick,
let him speed his work
that we may see it;
let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel draw near,
and let it come, that we may know it!”
20 Woe to (S)those who call evil good
and good evil,
(T)who put darkness for light
and light for darkness,
who put bitter for sweet
and sweet for bitter!
21 Woe to those who are (U)wise in their own eyes,
and shrewd in their own sight!
22 Woe to those who are (V)heroes at drinking wine,
and valiant men in mixing strong drink,
23 who (W)acquit the guilty for a bribe,
and deprive the innocent of his right!
24 Therefore, (X)as the tongue of fire devours the stubble,
and as dry grass sinks down in the flame,
so (Y)their root will be (Z)as rottenness,
and their blossom go up like dust;
for they have (AA)rejected the law of the Lord of hosts,
and have (AB)despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.
25 Therefore (AC)the anger of the Lord was kindled against his people,
and he stretched out his hand against them and struck them,
and (AD)the mountains quaked;
and their corpses were (AE)as refuse
in the midst of the streets.
(AF)For all this his anger has not turned away,
and his hand is stretched out still.
26 He will (AG)raise a signal for nations far away,
and (AH)whistle for them (AI)from the ends of the earth;
and behold, quickly, speedily they come!
27 (AJ)None is weary, none stumbles,
none slumbers or sleeps,
not a waistband is loose,
not a sandal strap broken;
28 (AK)their arrows are sharp,
all their bows bent,
their horses' hoofs seem like flint,
and their wheels (AL)like the whirlwind.
29 Their roaring is like a lion,
like young lions they roar;
they growl and (AM)seize their prey;
they carry it off, and none can rescue.
30 They will growl over it on that day,
like the growling of the sea.
And if one looks to the land,
behold, (AN)darkness and distress;
and the light is darkened by its clouds.
Footnotes
- Isaiah 5:10 Hebrew ten yoke, the area ten yoke of oxen can plow in a day
- Isaiah 5:10 A bath was about 6 gallons or 22 liters; a homer was about 6 bushels or 220 liters; an ephah was about 3/5 bushel or 22 liters
- Isaiah 5:13 Or without their knowledge
- Isaiah 5:13 Or die of hunger
- Isaiah 5:14 Hebrew her nobility
- Isaiah 5:15 Hebrew high
- Isaiah 5:16 Hebrew high
Isaiah 56:1-8
English Standard Version
Salvation for Foreigners
56 Thus says the Lord:
“Keep justice, and do righteousness,
(A)for soon my salvation will come,
and my righteousness be revealed.
2 Blessed is the man who does this,
and the son of man who holds it fast,
(B)who keeps the Sabbath, not profaning it,
and keeps his hand from doing any evil.”
3 Let not (C)the foreigner who has joined himself to the Lord say,
“The Lord will surely separate me from his people”;
and let not the eunuch say,
“Behold, I am (D)a dry tree.”
4 For thus says the Lord:
“To the eunuchs (E)who keep my Sabbaths,
who choose the things that please me
and hold fast my covenant,
5 (F)I will give in my house and within my walls
a (G)monument and a name
better than sons and daughters;
(H)I will give them an everlasting name
that shall not be cut off.
6 “And (I)the foreigners who join themselves to the Lord,
to minister to him, to love the name of the Lord,
and to be his servants,
everyone (J)who keeps the Sabbath and does not profane it,
and holds fast my covenant—
7 (K)these I will bring to (L)my holy mountain,
and make them joyful in my house of prayer;
(M)their burnt offerings and their sacrifices
will be accepted on my altar;
for (N)my house shall be called a house of prayer
for all peoples.”
8 The Lord God,
(O)who gathers the outcasts of Israel, declares,
(P)“I will gather yet others to him
besides those already gathered.”
The ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®), © 2001 by Crossway, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. ESV Text Edition: 2025.
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