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Jesaja 5
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Jesaja 5
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Jesaja's lied over Israël, Gods wijngaard
5 Jesaja zegt: Ik wil een lied zingen voor mijn beste Vriend, een lied over mijn beste Vriend en zijn wijngaard. Mijn beste Vriend heeft een wijngaard op een vruchtbare heuvel. 2 Hij zette er een doornhaag omheen, haalde de stenen uit de grond, plantte prachtige wijnstruiken, bouwde een wachttoren en maakte er een druivenpers in. Hij verwachtte dat er goede druiven in de wijngaard zouden groeien. Maar het waren zure druiven.
3 Mijn Vriend zegt: "Luister, bewoners van Jeruzalem! Mannen van Juda, oordeel zelf over Mij en mijn wijngaard. 4 Wat had Ik nog meer kunnen doen aan mijn wijngaard? Ik heb alles gedaan. Ik mocht verwachten dat er goede druiven zouden groeien. Waarom zijn ze dan zuur? 5 Ik zal jullie laten weten wat Ik met mijn wijngaard ga doen. Ik ga de doornhaag weghalen die er ter bescherming omheen staat. Ik ga de muur afbreken. Dan zal de wijngaard door het vee worden kaalgegeten en vertrapt. 6 Ik zal hem helemaal laten verwilderen. Ik zal hem niet meer snoeien. Ik zal er geen onkruid meer wieden, zodat er dorens en distels zullen gaan groeien. En Ik zal de wolken bevelen om geen regen meer op mijn wijngaard te laten vallen."
7 Het koninkrijk Israël is de wijngaard van de Heer van de hemelse legers. En de mannen van het koninkrijk Juda zijn de wijnstruiken waar Hij zoveel van hield. Hij verwachtte als oogst, dat ze zouden leven zoals Hij het wil. Maar ze deden vreselijke dingen. Hij verwachtte dat ze rechtvaardig zouden leven. Maar de arme mensen schreeuwen om hulp.
8 Het zal slecht aflopen met de hebzuchtige mensen. Ze kopen het ene huis na het andere. Ze nemen de ene akker na de andere in bezit. Uiteindelijk hebben ze alles voor zichzelf. Voor een ander is er geen plaats meer. 9 De Heer van de hemelse legers zei tegen mij: "Luister goed, veel van die mooie grote huizen zullen worden verwoest. Er zullen geen mensen meer in wonen. 10 En een grote wijngaard zal maar één vat wijn opleveren. En tien zakken gezaaid graan zullen maar één zak graan als oogst opleveren."
Het zal slecht aflopen...
11 Het zal slecht aflopen met de mensen die 's morgens al vroeg beginnen met drinken en daar tot laat in de nacht mee doorgaan tot ze helemaal dronken zijn. 12 Ze doen niets anders dan feestvieren met muziek en veel wijn. Maar ze trekken zich niets aan van de Heer. Ze letten niet op wat Hij doet. 13 Daarom zal mijn volk gevangen meegenomen worden naar een ander land. Dat is omdat mijn volk zijn God niet kent. De rijke mensen zullen honger lijden. Het volk zal sterven van de dorst. 14 Het dodenrijk zal zijn mond wagenwijd opendoen. Alles en iedereen wordt opgeslokt: alle rijkdommen, de mensenmassa, de feestvierders. 15 Alle mensen, van hoog tot laag, zullen vernederd worden. Ze zullen hun trotse ogen moeten neerslaan. 16 Maar de Heer van de hemelse legers zal worden geëerd. Hij zal laten zien hoe machtig en heilig en rechtvaardig Hij is. 17 Tussen de puinhopen van de stad zal zoveel gras groeien dat de schapen er grazen. Vreemdelingen zullen tussen de puinhopen van de huizen van de rijke mensen naar waardevolle dingen zoeken.
18 Het zal slecht aflopen met de mensen die zo graag oneerlijk zijn, die het kwaad met sterke touwen en dikke kabels naar zich toe trekken. 19 Het zal slecht aflopen met de mensen die de Heilige God van Israël uitdagen en zeggen: 'Laat Hij toch opschieten! We willen wel eens zien wat Hij kan! Laat Hij maar doen wat Hij van plan is. We willen het wel eens zien!'
20 Het zal slecht aflopen met de mensen die van het kwaad zeggen dat het goed is en van het goede zeggen dat het kwaad is. Die van het donker zeggen dat het licht is en van het licht zeggen dat het donker is. Die van bitter zeggen dat het zoet is en van zoet zeggen dat het bitter is.
21 Het zal slecht aflopen met de mensen die zichzelf zo wijs en verstandig vinden en die alleen hun eigen mening belangrijk vinden.
22 Het zal slecht aflopen met de mensen die zulke geweldige drinkers zijn, echte helden in het drinken van wijn. 23 Ze laten zich omkopen om schuldige mensen vrij te spreken en onschuldige mensen te veroordelen.
24 Daarom zullen ze worden vernietigd, zoals dor gras dat wordt verbrand en zoals stro dat in vlammen opgaat. Ze zullen zijn als bomen waarvan de wortels verrotten en de bloesems verdrogen. Want ze hebben de wet van de Heer van de hemelse legers aan de kant geschoven. Ze hebben zich niets aangetrokken van de woorden van de Heilige God van Israël.
25 Daarom is de Heer woedend op zijn volk en straft Hij het. De bergen beven en de lijken liggen als vuilnis midden op straat. Maar nog steeds is de Heer woedend en zijn straf houdt nog niet op.
Gods straf komt eraan
26 Daarom zal Hij een teken geven aan een volk ver weg.[a] Hij zal het naar Zich toe fluiten. Vanaf het einde van de aarde zullen ze komen aanrennen. 27 Ze worden niet moe en struikelen niet. Ze rusten niet en slapen niet. Ze leggen hun gordel niet af en hun schoenriemen breken niet. 28 Hun pijlen zijn scherp en hun bogen gespannen. De hoeven van hun paarden zijn zo hard als steen. De wielen van hun strijdwagens draaien zo snel als een wervelwind. 29 Hun gebrul klinkt als het brullen van een leeuw. Ze grommen, grijpen hun buit en slepen die mee, zonder dat iemand hen tegenhoudt. 30 In die tijd zal dat volk over Israël heen spoelen als een woeste zee. Overal zal duisternis en ellende zijn, waar je ook kijkt. Zelfs overdag zal het donker zijn, doordat dat volk alles verwoest en verbrandt.
Footnotes
- Jesaja 5:26 Met dit volk wordt Assur bedoeld. In de tijd dat Hosea koning van Israël was, werden Aram en Israël veroverd door koning Salmaneser van Assur. Lees 2 Koningen 17:3. En in de tijd dat Hizkia koning van Juda was, werd Juda veroverd door koning Sanherib van Assur. (Alleen Jeruzalem hield nog stand. Later werd ook Jeruzalem veroverd, namelijk door koning Nebukadnezar van Babylonië.)
Isaiah 5
Common English Bible
Isaiah 5
Common English Bible
Song of the vineyard
5 Let me sing for my loved one
a love song for his vineyard.
My loved one had a vineyard on a fertile hillside.
2 He dug it,
cleared away its stones,
planted it with excellent vines,
built a tower inside it,
and dug out a wine vat in it.
He expected it to grow good grapes—
but it grew rotten grapes.
3 So now, you who live in Jerusalem, you people of Judah,
judge between me and my vineyard:
4 What more was there to do for my vineyard
that I haven’t done for it?
When I expected it to grow good grapes,
why did it grow rotten grapes?
5 Now let me tell you what I’m doing to my vineyard.
I’m removing its hedge,
so it will be destroyed.
I’m breaking down its walls,
so it will be trampled.
6 I’ll turn it into a ruin;
it won’t be pruned or hoed,
and thorns and thistles will grow up.
I will command the clouds not to rain on it.
7 The vineyard of the Lord of heavenly forces is the house of Israel,
and the people of Judah are the plantings in which God delighted.
God expected justice, but there was bloodshed;
righteousness, but there was a cry of distress!
Sayings of doom
8 Doom 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.
9 I heard the Lord of heavenly forces say this:[a]
Many houses will become total ruins,
large, fine houses, with no one living in them.
10 Ten acres of vineyard
will produce just one bath,[b]
and a homer of seed
will produce only an ephah.
11 Doom to those who wake up early in the morning to run after beer,
to those who stay up late, lit up by wine.
12 They party with lyre and harp, tambourine, flute, and wine;
but they ignore the Lord’s work;
they can’t see what God is doing.
13 Therefore, my people go into exile since they didn’t understand—
their officials are dying of hunger;
so many of them are dried up with thirst.
14 Therefore, the grave[c] opens wide its jaws,
opens its mouth beyond all bounds,
and the splendid multitudes will go down, with all their uproar and cheering.
15 Humanity will be humiliated;
each person laid low,
the eyes of the exalted laid low.
16 But the Lord of heavenly forces will be exalted in justice,
and the holy God will show himself holy in righteousness.
17 Lambs will graze as if in their pasture;
young goats[d] will feed among the ruins of the rich.[e]
18 Doom 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.”
20 Doom 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.
21 Doom to those
who consider themselves wise,
who think of themselves as clever.
22 Doom to the wine-swigging warriors,
mighty at mixing drinks,
23 who spare the guilty for bribes,
and rob the innocent of their rights.
24 Therefore, as a tongue of fire devours stubble,
and as hay shrivels in a flame,
so their roots will rot,
and their blossoms turn to dust,
for they have rejected the teaching of the Lord of heavenly forces,
and have despised the word of Israel’s holy one.
God’s powerful hand
25 This is why the Lord’s anger burned against the people:
he extended his hand to strike them,
the mountains trembled,
and their corpses lay in the middle of the streets like dung.
Even then God’s anger didn’t turn away;
God’s hand was still extended.
26 God will raise a signal to a nation from far away
and whistle to them from the end of the earth—
now look—hurrying, swiftly they come!
27 Not one is tired; not one stumbles;
they don’t rest or sleep;
no belt is loose; no sandal broken;
28 their arrows are sharp;
all their bows drawn;
their horses’ hooves are like flint;
their wheels like the whirlwind.
29 Their roaring is like the lion;
they roar like young lions;
they growl, seize their prey,
and carry it off, with no one to rescue.
30 On that day, they will roar over it like the roaring of the sea.
And if one looks toward the land, there’s darkness.
Tyre and the Nile will be darkened by the clouds.[f]
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 5:14 Heb Sheol
- Isaiah 5:17 Or strangers
- Isaiah 5:17 Or Calves and young goats will feed on the ruins; Heb uncertain
- Isaiah 5:30 Heb uncertain
Isaiah 5
New International Version
Isaiah 5
New International Version
The Song of the Vineyard
5 I will sing for the one I love
a song about his vineyard:(A)
My loved one had a vineyard
on a fertile hillside.
2 He dug it up and cleared it of stones
and planted it with the choicest vines.(B)
He built a watchtower(C) in it
and cut out a winepress(D) as well.
Then he looked for a crop of good grapes,
but it yielded only bad fruit.(E)
3 “Now you dwellers in Jerusalem and people of Judah,
judge between me and my vineyard.(F)
4 What more could have been done for my vineyard
than I have done for it?(G)
When I looked for good grapes,
why did it yield only bad?(H)
5 Now I will tell you
what I am going to do to my vineyard:
I will take away its hedge,
and it will be destroyed;(I)
I will break down its wall,(J)
and it will be trampled.(K)
6 I will make it a wasteland,(L)
neither pruned nor cultivated,
and briers and thorns(M) will grow there.
I will command the clouds
not to rain(N) on it.”
7 The vineyard(O) of the Lord Almighty
is the nation of Israel,
and the people of Judah
are the vines he delighted in.
And he looked for justice,(P) but saw bloodshed;
for righteousness,(Q) but heard cries of distress.(R)
Woes and Judgments
8 Woe(S) to you who add house to house
and join field to field(T)
till no space is left
and you live alone in the land.
9 The Lord Almighty(U) has declared in my hearing:(V)
“Surely the great houses will become desolate,(W)
the fine mansions left without occupants.
10 A ten-acre vineyard will produce only a bath[a] of wine;
a homer[b] of seed will yield only an ephah[c] of grain.”(X)
11 Woe(Y) to those who rise early in the morning
to run after their drinks,
who stay up late at night
till they are inflamed with wine.(Z)
12 They have harps and lyres at their banquets,
pipes(AA) and timbrels(AB) and wine,
but they have no regard(AC) for the deeds of the Lord,
no respect for the work of his hands.(AD)
13 Therefore my people will go into exile(AE)
for lack of understanding;(AF)
those of high rank(AG) will die of hunger
and the common people will be parched with thirst.(AH)
14 Therefore Death(AI) expands its jaws,
opening wide its mouth;(AJ)
into it will descend their nobles and masses
with all their brawlers and revelers.(AK)
15 So people will be brought low(AL)
and everyone humbled,(AM)
the eyes of the arrogant(AN) humbled.
16 But the Lord Almighty will be exalted(AO) by his justice,(AP)
and the holy God will be proved holy(AQ) by his righteous acts.
17 Then sheep will graze as in their own pasture;(AR)
lambs will feed[d] among the ruins of the rich.
18 Woe(AS) to those who draw sin along with cords(AT) of deceit,
and wickedness(AU) as with cart ropes,
19 to those who say, “Let God hurry;
let him hasten(AV) his work
so we may see it.
The plan of the Holy One(AW) of Israel—
let it approach, let it come into view,
so we may know it.”(AX)
20 Woe(AY) to those who call evil good(AZ)
and good evil,(BA)
who put darkness for light
and light for darkness,(BB)
who put bitter for sweet
and sweet for bitter.(BC)
21 Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes(BD)
and clever in their own sight.
22 Woe to those who are heroes at drinking wine(BE)
and champions at mixing drinks,(BF)
23 who acquit the guilty for a bribe,(BG)
but deny justice(BH) to the innocent.(BI)
24 Therefore, as tongues of fire(BJ) lick up straw(BK)
and as dry grass sinks down in the flames,
so their roots will decay(BL)
and their flowers blow away like dust;(BM)
for they have rejected the law of the Lord Almighty
and spurned the word(BN) of the Holy One(BO) of Israel.
25 Therefore the Lord’s anger(BP) burns against his people;
his hand is raised and he strikes them down.
The mountains shake,(BQ)
and the dead bodies(BR) are like refuse(BS) in the streets.(BT)
26 He lifts up a banner(BW) for the distant nations,
he whistles(BX) for those at the ends of the earth.(BY)
Here they come,
swiftly and speedily!
27 Not one of them grows tired(BZ) or stumbles,
not one slumbers or sleeps;
not a belt(CA) is loosened at the waist,(CB)
not a sandal strap is broken.(CC)
28 Their arrows are sharp,(CD)
all their bows(CE) are strung;
their horses’ hooves(CF) seem like flint,
their chariot wheels like a whirlwind.(CG)
29 Their roar is like that of the lion,(CH)
they roar like young lions;
they growl as they seize(CI) their prey
and carry it off with no one to rescue.(CJ)
30 In that day(CK) they will roar over it
like the roaring of the sea.(CL)
And if one looks at the land,
there is only darkness(CM) and distress;(CN)
even the sun will be darkened(CO) by clouds.
Footnotes
- Isaiah 5:10 That is, about 6 gallons or about 22 liters
- Isaiah 5:10 That is, probably about 360 pounds or about 160 kilograms
- Isaiah 5:10 That is, probably about 36 pounds or about 16 kilograms
- Isaiah 5:17 Septuagint; Hebrew / strangers will eat
Isaiah 5
King James Version
Isaiah 5
King James Version
5 Now will I sing to my wellbeloved a song of my beloved touching his vineyard. My wellbeloved hath a vineyard in a very fruitful hill:
2 And he fenced it, and gathered out the stones thereof, and planted it with the choicest vine, and built a tower in the midst of it, and also made a winepress therein: and he looked that it should bring forth grapes, and it brought forth wild grapes.
3 And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem, and men of Judah, judge, I pray you, betwixt me and my vineyard.
4 What could have been done more to my vineyard, that I have not done in it? wherefore, when I looked that it should bring forth grapes, brought it forth wild grapes?
5 And now go to; I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard: I will take away the hedge thereof, and it shall be eaten up; and break down the wall thereof, and it shall be trodden down:
6 And I will lay it waste: it shall not be pruned, nor digged; but there shall come up briers and thorns: I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it.
7 For the vineyard of the Lord of hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasant plant: and he looked for judgment, but behold oppression; for righteousness, but behold a cry.
8 Woe unto them that join house to house, that lay field to field, till there be no place, that they may be placed alone in the midst of the earth!
9 In mine ears said the Lord of hosts, Of a truth many houses shall be desolate, even great and fair, without inhabitant.
10 Yea, ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and the seed of an homer shall yield an ephah.
11 Woe unto them that rise up early in the morning, that they may follow strong drink; that continue until night, till wine inflame them!
12 And the harp, and the viol, the tabret, and pipe, and wine, are in their feasts: but they regard not the work of the Lord, neither consider the operation of his hands.
13 Therefore my people are gone into captivity, because they have no knowledge: and their honourable men are famished, and their multitude dried up with thirst.
14 Therefore hell hath enlarged herself, and opened her mouth without measure: and their glory, and their multitude, and their pomp, and he that rejoiceth, shall descend into it.
15 And the mean man shall be brought down, and the mighty man shall be humbled, and the eyes of the lofty shall be humbled:
16 But the Lord of hosts shall be exalted in judgment, and God that is holy shall be sanctified in righteousness.
17 Then shall the lambs feed after their manner, and the waste places of the fat ones shall strangers eat.
18 Woe unto them that draw iniquity with cords of vanity, and sin as it were with a cart rope:
19 That say, Let him make speed, and hasten his work, that we may see it: and let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel draw nigh and come, that we may know it!
20 Woe unto them 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 unto them that are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight!
22 Woe unto them that are mighty to drink wine, and men of strength to mingle strong drink:
23 Which justify the wicked for reward, and take away the righteousness of the righteous from him!
24 Therefore as the fire devoureth the stubble, and the flame consumeth the chaff, so their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust: because they have cast away the law of the Lord of hosts, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.
25 Therefore is the anger of the Lord kindled against his people, and he hath stretched forth his hand against them, and hath smitten them: and the hills did tremble, and their carcases were torn 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 an ensign to the nations from far, and will hiss unto them from the end of the earth: and, behold, they shall come with speed swiftly:
27 None shall be weary nor stumble among them; none shall slumber nor sleep; neither shall the girdle of their loins be loosed, nor the latchet of their shoes be broken:
28 Whose arrows are sharp, and all their bows bent, their horses' hoofs shall be counted like flint, and their wheels like a whirlwind:
29 Their roaring shall be like a lion, they shall roar like young lions: yea, they shall roar, and lay hold of the prey, and shall carry it away safe, and none shall deliver it.
30 And in that day they shall roar against them like the roaring of the sea: and if one look unto the land, behold darkness and sorrow, and the light is darkened in the heavens thereof.
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