5 Now will I sing to my Well-beloved a song of my Beloved concerning His vineyard: my Well-beloved hath a vineyard on 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 wine press therein. And He looked for it to bring forth grapes, and it brought forth wild grapes.

³ “And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem and men of Judah, judge, I pray you, between Me and My vineyard.

⁴ What could have been done more to My vineyard than I have not done in it? Why, when I looked for it to bring forth good grapes, brought it forth wild grapes?

⁵ “And now, 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 dug, 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: “In truth many houses shall be desolate, even the great and fair, without inhabitant.

¹⁰ Yea, ten acres of vineyard shall yield but one bath, and a homer of seed shall yield but an ephah.”

¹¹ Woe unto them that rise up early in the morning, that they may pursue strong drink; that continue until night, till wine inflame them!

¹² And the harp and the viol, and the taboret 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 honorable men are famished, and their multitude dried up with thirst.

¹⁴ Therefore hell hath enlarged herself, and opened her mouth beyond measure; and their glory and their multitude and their pomp, and he that rejoiceth, shall descend into it.

¹⁵ And the lowly 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 who is holy shall be sanctified in righteousness.

¹⁷ Then shall the lambs feed according to their manner, and the waste places of the fat ones shall strangers eat.

¹⁸ Woe unto them that draw along iniquity with cords of vanity, and sin as it were with a cart rope;

¹⁹ who 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 count darkness as light, and light as 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 who justify the wicked for a 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 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 carcasses 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 afar, 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.

6 In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw also the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up, and His train filled the temple.

² Above it stood the seraphims; each one had six wings: with two he covered his face, and with two he covered his feet, and with two he flew.

³ And one cried unto another and said, “Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of hosts; the whole earth is full of His glory.”

⁴ And the posts of the door moved at the voice of him that cried, and the house was filled with smoke.

⁵ Then said I, “Woe is me! For I am undone, because I am a man of unclean lips and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips; for mine eyes have seen the King, the Lord of hosts.”

⁶ Then flew one of the seraphims unto me, having a live coal in his hand, which he had taken with the tongs from off the altar.

⁷ And he laid it upon my mouth and said, “Lo, this hath touched thy lips; and thine iniquity is taken away, and thy sin purged.”

⁸ Also I heard the voice of the Lord saying, “Whom shall I send, and who will go for Us?” Then said I, “Here am I. Send me!”

⁹ And He said, “Go, and tell this people: “‘Hear ye indeed, but understand not; and see ye indeed, but perceive not.’

¹⁰ Make the heart of this people fat, and make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and convert and be healed.”

¹¹ Then said I, “Lord, how long?” And He answered, “Until the cities be wasted without inhabitant, and the houses without man, and the land be utterly desolate,

¹² and the Lord have removed men far away, and there be a great forsaking in the midst of the land.

¹³ “But yet in it shall be a tenth, and it shall return and shall be eaten, as a teil tree and as an oak whose substance is in them when they cast their leaves: so the holy seed shall be the substance thereof.”

1 Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, To the saints who are at Ephesus, and to the faithful in Christ Jesus:

² Grace be to you and peace from God our Father and from the Lord Jesus Christ.

³ Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ, even as

⁴ He hath chosen us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before Him in love,

⁵ having predestined us to be His own adopted children by Jesus Christ, according to the good pleasure of His will,

⁶ to the praise of the glory of His grace, wherein He hath made us accepted in His Beloved:

⁷ in Whom we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of His grace,

⁸ wherein He hath abounded toward us in all wisdom and prudence.

⁹ He hath made known unto us the mystery of His will, according to His good pleasure which He hath purposed in Himself,

¹⁰ that in the dispensation of the fullness of times He might gather together in one all things in Christ, both which are in heaven and which are on earth, even in Him.

¹¹ In Christ also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestined according to the purpose of Him who worketh all things after the counsel of His own will,

¹² that we, who first trusted in Christ, should be to the praise of His glory.

¹³ In Christ ye also trusted after ye heard the word of truth, the Gospel of your salvation, in Whom also after ye believed, ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise,

¹⁴ which is the pledge of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, unto the praise of His glory.

¹⁵ Therefore I also, after I heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus and your love for all the saints,

¹⁶ cease not to give thanks for you, making mention of you in my prayers.

¹⁷ I pray that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Him,

¹⁸ the eyes of your understanding being enlightened, that ye may know what is the hope of His calling, and what are the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints,

¹⁹ and what is the exceeding greatness of His power toward us who believe, according to the working of His mighty power,

²⁰ which He wrought in Christ when He raised Him from the dead and set Him at His own right hand in the heavenly places,

²¹ far above all principality and power and might and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this world, but also in that which is to come.

²² And God hath put all things under His feet, and hath given Him to be the head over all things to the church,

²³ which is His body, the fullness of Him that filleth all in all.