¹⁶ So ^(V)you will be delivered from the forbidden^[a] woman,
    from ^(W)the adulteress^[b] with ^(X)her smooth words,
¹⁷ who forsakes ^(Y)the companion of her youth
    and forgets ^(Z)the covenant of her God;
^18 (AA)for her house sinks down to death,
    and her paths to the departed;^[c]
19 none who go to her come back,
    nor do they regain the paths of life.

²⁰ So you will walk in the way of the good
    and keep to the paths of the righteous.
²¹ For the upright ^(AB)will inhabit the land,
    and those with integrity will remain in it,
²² but the wicked will be ^(AC)cut off from the land,
    and the treacherous will be ^(AD)rooted out of it.

⁶ For ^(F)a man will take hold of his brother
    in the house of his father, saying:
“You have a cloak;
    you shall be our leader,
and this heap of ruins
    shall be under your rule”;
⁷ in that day he will speak out, saying:
“I will not be a ^(G)healer;^[c]
    in my house there is neither bread nor cloak;
you shall not make me
    leader of the people.”
⁸ For Jerusalem has stumbled,
    and Judah has fallen,
because their ^(H)speech and their deeds are against the Lord,
    ^(I)defying his glorious presence.^[d]

⁹ For the look on their faces bears witness against them;
    they proclaim their sin ^(J)like Sodom;
    they do not hide it.
Woe to them!
    ^(K)For they have brought evil on themselves.
^10 (L)Tell the righteous that it shall be well with them,
    ^(M)for they shall eat the fruit of their deeds.
^11 (N)Woe to the wicked! It shall be ill with him,
    for what his hands have dealt out shall be done to him.
¹² My people—^(O)infants are their oppressors,
    and women rule over them.
O my people, ^(P)your guides mislead you
    and they have swallowed up^[e] the course of your paths.

¹³ The Lord ^(Q)has taken his place to contend;
    he stands to judge peoples.
¹⁴ The Lord will enter into judgment
    with the ^(R)elders and princes of his people:
“It is you who ^(S)have devoured^[f] the vineyard,
    ^(T)the spoil of the poor is in your houses.
¹⁵ What do you mean by ^(U)crushing my people,
    by grinding the face of the poor?”
declares the Lord God of hosts.

¹⁶ The Lord said:
^(V)Because ^(W)the daughters of Zion are haughty
    and walk with outstretched necks,
    glancing wantonly with their eyes,
mincing along as they go,
    ^(X)tinkling with their feet,
¹⁷ therefore the Lord ^(Y)will strike with a scab
    the heads of ^(Z)the daughters of Zion,
    and the Lord will lay bare their secret parts.

²⁴ Instead of ^(AG)perfume there will be rottenness;
    and instead of a ^(AH)belt, a rope;
and instead of ^(AI)well-set hair, ^(AJ)baldness;
    and instead of a rich robe, a ^(AK)skirt of sackcloth;
    and ^(AL)branding instead of beauty.
²⁵ Your men shall fall by the sword
    and your mighty men in battle.
²⁶ And ^(AM)her gates shall lament and mourn;
    empty, she shall ^(AN)sit on the ground.

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

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

^7 (BO)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;^[i]
for righteousness,
    but behold, an outcry!^[j]

¹¹ Woe to those who ^(BT)rise early in the morning,
    that they may run after strong drink,
who tarry late into the evening
    as wine inflames them!
^12 (BU)They have lyre and harp,
    tambourine and flute and wine at their feasts,
^(BV)but they do not regard the deeds of the Lord,
    or see the work of his hands.

¹³ Therefore my people go into exile
    ^(BW)for lack of knowledge;^[m]
their ^(BX)honored men go hungry,^[n]
    and their multitude is parched with thirst.
¹⁴ Therefore Sheol has ^(BY)enlarged its appetite
    and opened ^(BZ)its mouth beyond measure,
and the nobility of Jerusalem^[o] and her multitude will go down,
    her revelers and he who ^(CA)exults in her.
^15 (CB)Man is humbled, and each one is brought low,
    and the eyes of the haughty^[p] are brought low.
^16 (CC)But the Lord of hosts is exalted^[q] in justice,
    and the Holy God shows himself holy in righteousness.
¹⁷ Then shall the lambs graze ^(CD)as in their pasture,
    and ^(CE)nomads shall eat among the ruins of the rich.

¹⁸ Woe to those who draw iniquity with ^(CF)cords of falsehood,
    who draw sin as with cart ropes,
¹⁹ who say: ^(CG)“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 ^(CH)those who call evil good
    and good evil,
^(CI)who put darkness for light
    and light for darkness,
who put bitter for sweet
    and sweet for bitter!
²¹ Woe to those who are ^(CJ)wise in their own eyes,
    and shrewd in their own sight!
²² Woe to those who are ^(CK)heroes at drinking wine,
    and valiant men in mixing strong drink,
²³ who ^(CL)acquit the guilty for a bribe,
    and deprive the innocent of his right!

²⁴ Therefore, ^(CM)as the tongue of fire devours the stubble,
    and as dry grass sinks down in the flame,
so ^(CN)their root will be ^(CO)as rottenness,
    and their blossom go up like dust;
for they have ^(CP)rejected the law of the Lord of hosts,
    and have ^(CQ)despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.
²⁵ Therefore ^(CR)the anger of the Lord was kindled against his people,
    and he stretched out his hand against them and struck them,
    and ^(CS)the mountains quaked;
and their corpses were ^(CT)as refuse
    in the midst of the streets.
^(CU)For all this his anger has not turned away,
    and his hand is stretched out still.

²⁶ He will ^(CV)raise a signal for nations far away,
    and ^(CW)whistle for them ^(CX)from the ends of the earth;
and behold, quickly, speedily they come!
^27 (CY)None is weary, none stumbles,
    none slumbers or sleeps,
not a waistband is loose,
    not a sandal strap broken;
^28 (CZ)their arrows are sharp,
    all their bows bent,
their horses' hoofs seem like flint,
    and their wheels ^(DA)like the whirlwind.
²⁹ Their roaring is like a lion,
    like young lions they roar;
they growl and ^(DB)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, ^(DC)darkness and distress;
and the light is darkened by its clouds.

^(V)If we have died with him, we will also ^(W)live with him;
^12 (X)if we endure, we will also reign with him;
^(Y)if we deny him, he also will deny us;
^13 (Z)if we are faithless, ^(AA)he remains faithful—