23:005:004 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?
23:005:005 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:
23:005:006 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.
23:005:007 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.
23:005:008 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!
23:005:009 In mine ears said the lord of hosts,
Of a truth many houses
shall
be desolate, even great and fair, without inhabitant.
23:005:010 Yea, ten acres of vineyard shall yield
one bath, and the seed
of
an homer shall yield an ephah.
23:005:011 Woe unto them that rise up early in the
morning, that they may
follow
strong drink; that continue until night, till wine
inflame
them!
23:005:012 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.
23:005:013 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.
23:005:014 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.
23:005:015 And the mean man shall be brought down,
and the mighty man
shall
be humbled, and the eyes of the lofty shall be humbled:
23:005:016 But the lord of hosts shall be exalted
in judgment, and God
that
is holy shall be sanctified in righteousness.
23:005:017 Then shall the lambs feed after their manner,
and the waste
places
of the fat ones shall strangers eat.
23:005:018 Woe unto them that draw iniquity with cords
of vanity, and sin
as
it were with a cart rope:
23:005:019 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!


