Isaiah 5

My beloved had a vineyard on a very fruitful hill.

but it yielded wild grapes.

please judge between me and my vineyard.

Why, when I looked for it to yield grapes, did it yield wild grapes?

I will break down its wall, and it will be trampled down.

I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain on it.”

for righteousness, but, behold, a cry of distress.

and you are made to dwell alone in the middle of the land!

even great and beautiful, unoccupied.

and a homer of seed shall yield an ephah.”

who stay late into the night, until wine inflames them!

neither have they considered the operation of his hands.

and their multitudes are parched with thirst.

and their glory, their multitude, their pomp, and he who rejoices among them, descend into it.

and the eyes of the arrogant ones are humbled;

and God the Holy One is sanctified in righteousness.

and strangers will eat the ruins of the rich.

and wickedness as with cart rope,

that we may know it!”

and sweet for bitter!

and prudent in their own sight!

and champions at mixing strong drink;

but deny justice for the innocent!

and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.

but his hand is still stretched out.

Behold, they will come speedily and swiftly.

nor the strap of their sandals be broken,

and their wheels like a whirlwind.

and there will be no one to deliver.

The light is darkened in its clouds.