Old/New Testament
5 Now I will sing to my Beloved a song of my Beloved to His vineyard. My Beloved had a vineyard on a very fruitful hill.
2 And He hedged it and gathered out the stones from it. And he planted it with the best plants. And he built a tower in its midst, and made a winepress therein. Then He expected it to bring forth grapes. But it brought forth sour grapes.
3 “Now therefore, O inhabitants of Jerusalem and men of Judah, judge, please, between Me and My vineyard.
4 “What more could I have done to My vineyard that I have not done to it? Why, when I expected it to bring forth grapes, has it brought forth sour grapes?
5 “And now I will tell you what I will do to My vineyard. I will take away its hedge, and it shall be eaten up. I will break its wall, and it shall be trodden down.
6 “And I will lay it waste. It shall be neither cut nor dug, but briers and thorns shall grow up. I will also Command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it.”
7 Surely the vineyard of the LORD of Hosts is the House of Israel. And the men of Judah are His pleasant plant. And he looked for judgment—but behold, oppression; for righteousness—but behold, a crying.
8 Woe to those who join house to house, lay field to field, until there is no place that you may be placed by yourselves in the midst of the Earth.
9 “If not,” the LORD of Hosts said in my ears, “surely many houses shall be desolate, great and fair, without inhabitant.
10 “For ten acres of vines shall yield one bath. And the seed of an homer shall yield an ephah.”
11 Woe to those who rise up early to follow drunkenness, and to those who continue until night. The wine inflames them.
12 And the harp and lyre, timbrel and pipe, and wine are in their feasts. But they do not regard the work of the LORD, or consider the work of His hands.
13 Therefore my people have gone into captivity, because they had no knowledge, and their honorable men famished. And the multitude thereof is dried up with thirst.
14 Therefore Hell has enlarged itself, and has opened its mouth without measure. And their glory, and their multitude, and their pomp, and he who rejoices among them, shall descend.
15 And man shall be brought down, and man shall be humbled. Even the eyes of the proud shall be humbled.
16 And the LORD of Hosts shall be exalted in judgment, and the holy God shall be sanctified in justice.
17 Then shall the lambs feed in their pasture, and the strangers shall eat in the desolate places of the fat ones.
18 Woe to those who drag iniquity with cords of falsehood, and sin, as with cart ropes,
19 who say, “Let Him hurry. Let him hasten His work, so that we may see it. And let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel draw near and come, so that we may know it.”
20 Woe to those who speak good of evil, and evil of good; who put darkness for light, and light for darkness; who put bitter for sweet, and sweet for sour.
21 Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight.
22 Woe to those who are mighty at drinking wine, and to those who are strong at mixing intoxicating drink,
23 who justify the wicked for a bribe, and take away justice from the righteous.
24 Therefore as the flame of fire devours the stubble, and the chaff is consumed by the flame, so their root shall be as rottenness, and their bud shall rise up like dust, because they have cast off the Law of the LORD of hosts, and contemned the Word of the Holy One of Israel.
25 Therefore the wrath of the LORD is kindled against His people, and He has stretched out His hand upon them, and has struck them, so that the mountains trembled and their carcasses were torn in the middle of the streets. For all this, His wrath was not turned away, but His hand was stretched out still.
26 And He will lift up a sign to the nations from afar, and will whistle to them from the end of the Earth. And behold, they shall come quickly with speed.
27 No one shall faint or fall among them. No one shall slumber or sleep. Nor shall the belt of his loins be loosened, nor the strap of his shoes be broken.
28 Whose arrows shall be sharp, and all his bows bent. His horse’s hooves shall be thought of as flint, and his wheels like a whirlwind.
29 His roaring shall be like a lion, and he shall roar like lion’s whelps. They shall roar, and lay hold of the prey. They shall take it away, and no one shall deliver it.
30 And on that day, they shall roar upon them, as the roaring of the sea, and if they look to the Earth, behold darkness and sorrow. And the light shall be darkened in their sky.
6 In the year of the death of King Uzziah, I also saw the LORD sitting upon a high throne and lifted up. And the lower parts of it filled the Temple.
2 The seraphims stood upon it. 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 to 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 who cried. And the house was filled with smoke.
5 Then I said, “Woe is me! For I am undone, because I am a man of polluted lips! And I dwell in the midst of a people of polluted lips! For my eyes have seen the King, LORD of Hosts.”
6 Then one of the seraphims flew to me with a hot coal in his hand, which he had taken from the Altar with the Tongs:
7 And he touched my mouth, and said, “Lo, this has touched your lips, and your iniquity shall be taken away. And your sin shall be purged.”
8 Also, I heard the voice of the LORD, saying, “Whom shall I send? And who shall go for Us?” Then I said, “Here am I. Send me.”
9 And He said, “Go, and say to this people, ‘You shall indeed hear, but you shall not understand. You shall plainly see, and not perceive.’
10 “Make the heart of this people fat. 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 I said, “LORD, how long?” And He answered, “Until the cities are laid waste, without inhabitant, and the houses without man, and the land is utterly desolate,
12 “And the LORD has removed men far away. And there is a great desolation in the midst of the land.
13 “But yet, in it shall be a tenth, and shall return and shall be eaten up as an elm or an oak, which has a substance in them even when they are made stumps. The Holy Seed shall be its substance.”
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 with you, and peace, from God our Father and from the Lord Jesus Christ.
3 Blessed be God, and the Father of our Lord, Jesus Christ, Who has blessed us with all spiritual blessing in the Heavenly realms in Christ,
4 as He has 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 adopted, through Jesus Christ, to Himself, according to the good pleasure of His will,
6 to the praise of the glory of His grace, which He has freely bestowed on us in the Beloved;
7 in Whom we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of His grace,
8 with which He has been abundant toward us in all wisdom and understanding;
9 and has made known to us the mystery of His will, according to His good pleasure, which He has purposed in Him.
10 That in the dispensation of the fullness of the times, He might gather together all things in Christ, both in Heaven and on Earth;
11 in Whom we also have obtained an inheritance, being predestined according to the purpose of Him who works all things according the counsel of His own will,
12 that we who first trusted in Christ, should be to the praise of His Glory;
13 in Whom also, you, having heard the Word of Truth, the Gospel of your salvation, and after having believed, were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise,
14 Who is the guarantee of our inheritance, for the redemption of that acquired possession, to the praise of His Glory.
15 Therefore, also, after I heard of the faith which you have in the Lord Jesus, and love toward all the saints,
16 I do not cease to give thanks for you, making mention of you in my prayers,
17 that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of Glory, might give to you the Spirit of wisdom and revelation through the knowledge of Him,
18 that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened, so that you may know what the hope is of His calling, and what the riches are of His glorious inheritance in the saints,
19 and what is the exceeding greatness of His power toward us who believe, according to the working of His strength;
20 which He worked in Christ when He raised him from the dead, and set Him at His right hand in the Heavenly realms,
21 far above every principality and power and might and domination, and every name that is named, not only in this world, but also in the coming one.
22 And all things have been put under His feet. And He has been given headship over all things of the Church,
23 which is His body - the fullness of Him Who fills all in all.
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