Verse
YLT
Young's Literal Translation
BSB
Berean Standard Bible
Let
me
sing,
I pray
you,
for my beloved ,
A song of my
beloved
as
to
his vineyard: My beloved hath
a vineyard in
a fruitful
hill ,
I will
sing
for my beloved a song of his vineyard: My beloved had
a vineyard on
a very
fertile
hill .
And
he fenceth
it ,
and casteth
out
its
stones ,
And planteth
it
`with'
a
choice
vine,
And
buildeth
a tower
in its
midst,
And also
a
wine
press
hath
hewn
out in
it,
And
he waiteth
for the yielding
of
grapes, And
it yieldeth
bad
ones
!
He dug
it up
and cleared
the
stones and planted
the
finest
vines.
He
built
a watchtower
in the
middle
and dug
out a
winepress
as
well.
He waited
for the vineyard
to
yield
good
grapes, but
the
fruit
it produced
was
sour
!
And now, O inhabitant
of Jerusalem ,
and man
of Judah, Judge,
I pray
you ,
between me and my vineyard.
“
And now, O dwellers
of Jerusalem and men
of Judah, I exhort
you to
judge
between Me and My vineyard.
What --
to
do
still
to
my
vineyard,
That
I have not
done in
it !
Wherefore
, I waited
to
the
yielding
of
grapes, And
it yieldeth
bad
ones!
What more
could
I have done for
My
vineyard
than
I
already
did
for
it ?
Why
, when
I expected
sweet
grapes, did
it bring
forth
sour
fruit?
And
now ,
pray,
let
me
cause
you to
know,
That
which
I am doing
to my vineyard ,
To
turn
aside
its hedge, And it hath
been
for
consumption,
To
break
down its wall, And it hath
been
for
a
treading-place
.
Now I
will
tell
you what
I am about
to do
to
My vineyard :
I
will
take
away
its hedge, and it will
be
consumed;
I
will
tear
down its wall, and it will
be
trampled
.
And
I make it a waste
, It
is
not
pruned ,
nor arranged
, And gone
up
have
brier
and
thorn,
And on
the thick
clouds I
lay
a
charge,
From
raining
upon
it
rain.
I will
make it a wasteland
, neither
pruned nor cultivated
, and thorns
and briers
will
grow
up.
I
will
command
the clouds that
rain shall
not
fall
on
it
. ”
Because
the vineyard of Jehovah
of Hosts `
Is '
the house of Israel, And the man
of Judah His
pleasant
plant ,
And
He waiteth
for judgment,
and
lo,
oppression
, For righteousness, and
lo,
a cry.
For
the vineyard of the
LORD
of Hosts is the house of Israel, and the men
of Judah are
the
plant of
His
delight.
He looked
for justice
, but
saw
bloodshed;
for righteousness, but
heard
a cry of
distress
.
Wo
`
to '
those
joining
house to house ,
Field to field they
bring
near,
till
there
is
no place ,
And ye
have
been
settled
by
yourselves
In the midst
of
the
land !
Woe
to you
who
add
house to house and
join
field to field until
no place is
left
and you
live
alone
in the land .
By
the weapons
of
Jehovah
of Hosts Do
not
many houses a
desolation
become ?
Great and
good
without
inhabitant!
I
heard
the LORD
of Hosts declare:
“Surely
many houses will
become desolate,
great mansions
left
unoccupied.
For ten acres of vineyard do
yield one
bath, And an
homer of seed yieldeth
an ephah.
For ten acres of vineyard will
yield but
a
bath of
wine
, and a
homer of seed only
an ephah of
grain
. ”
Wo
`
to '
those rising
early in the morning ,
Strong drink they
pursue!
Tarrying
in
twilight
, wine inflameth
them!
Woe
to those who
rise
early in the morning in
pursuit
of
strong drink, who
linger
into
the
evening,
to
be
inflamed
by
wine .
And harp, and
psaltery,
tabret,
and pipe,
And wine ,
have
been
their
banquets,
And
the work
of Jehovah
they
behold
not,
Yea,
the work of His hands they
have
not
seen
.
At
their
feasts
are
the
lyre
and harp, tambourines
and flutes
and wine .
They
disregard
the actions
of the LORD
and
fail
to
see
the
work of His hands.
Therefore my people removed
without
knowledge,
And
its
honourable
ones
are famished,
And its
multitude
dried
up
of
thirst.
Therefore My people will
go
into
exile
for
their
lack
of
understanding;
their
dignitaries
are starving
and their
masses
are
parched
with
thirst.
Therefore hath
Sheol enlarged
herself,
And
hath
opened
her
mouth
without
limit.
And
gone
down
hath
its honour,
and its multitude
, And its
noise,
and its
exulting
one
--
into
her .
Therefore Sheol enlarges
its throat
and opens
wide
its enormous
jaws
, and down
go
Zion’s
nobles
and masses,
her revelers
and
carousers!
And
bowed
down
is
the
low, and humbled the
high,
And
the eyes of
the
haughty
become
low,
So
mankind
will
be
brought
low, and each
man
humbled ;
the arrogant
will
lower
their
eyes .
And
Jehovah
of Hosts is
high
in
judgment
, And the Holy God sanctified
in righteousness ,
But
the
LORD
of Hosts will
be
exalted
by
His
justice
, and the holy God will
show
Himself
holy
in righteousness .
And
fed
have
lambs according
to
their leading
, And waste
places
of the fat
ones
Do
sojourners
consume
.
Lambs will
graze
as
in
their own
pastures
, and strangers
will
feed
in
the
ruins
of the wealthy
.
Wo
`
to '
those drawing
out
iniquity with cords of vanity,
And as
`
with '
thick
ropes
of
the
cart --
sin.
Woe
to those who
draw
iniquity with cords of deceit
and pull
sin
along
with cart ropes,
Who are
saying
, `
Let Him hurry ,
Let
Him
hasten His work ,
that we may see ,
And
let the counsel
of the Holy One of Israel Draw
near
and
come ,
and
we know .'
to
those
who say
, “
Let Him hurry and
hasten His work so
that we may see it!
Let the plan
of the Holy One of Israel come so
that
we may
know it!”
Wo
`
to '
those saying
to
evil `
good ,'
And to
good `
evil, '
Putting
darkness for
light ,
and light for
darkness, Putting
bitter for
sweet ,
and sweet for
bitter.
Woe
to those who
call
evil good and good evil, who
turn
darkness to
light and light to
darkness, who
replace
bitter with
sweet and sweet with
bitter.
Wo
`
to '
the
wise in their own eyes ,
And --
before
their own faces
--
intelligent!
Woe
to those
who
are
wise in their own eyes and clever
in
their own sight.
Wo
`to'
the
mighty
to drink
wine ,
And men
of
strength
to
mingle
strong
drink.
Woe
to those
who
are
heroes
in
drinking
wine and champions
in
mixing
beer,
Declaring
righteous
the wicked
for a bribe ,
And the righteousness
of the
righteous
They
turn
aside
from
him
.
who
acquit
the guilty
for a bribe and deprive
the innocent
of justice
.
Therefore, as a tongue of fire devoureth
stubble
, And flaming
hay
falleth,
Their
root
is
as muck
, And their flower
as
dust goeth
up.
Because
they have rejected the law
of Jehovah
of Hosts ,
And the saying
of the Holy One of Israel despised
.
Therefore, as a tongue of fire consumes
the
straw
, and as dry
grass
shrivels
in
the
flame
, so
their
roots
will
decay
and their blossoms
will
blow
away
like
dust ;
for
they have rejected the instruction
of the
LORD
of Hosts and despised
the word
of the Holy One of Israel.
Therefore hath
the anger of Jehovah
burned
among
His people ,
And
He
stretcheth
out
His hand against it,
And
smiteth
it,
and
the mountains tremble
, And their
carcase
is
as
filth
in
the midst
of
the out-places
. With
all this His anger did
not turn
back,
And
still
His hand is stretched
out!
Therefore the anger of the
LORD
burns
against
His people ;
His hand is
raised
against them
to
strike
them
down.
The mountains quake
, and the corpses
lay
like
refuse
in
the streets
. Despite
all this ,
His anger is
not turned
away;
His hand is still
upraised.
And
He lifted
up
an
ensign
to
nations afar
off,
And hissed
to
it
from
the end
of the earth ,
And
lo,
with
haste,
swift
it
cometh
.
He lifts
a
banner
for
the
distant
nations and whistles
for
those
at
the ends
of the earth. Behold—how
speedily
and
swiftly
they
come!
There
is
none weary,
nor
stumbling
in
it,
It
doth
not
slumber,
nor
sleep,
Nor
opened
hath
been
the
girdle
of its
loins,
Nor
drawn
away
the
latchet
of
its
sandals
.
None of them
grows
weary
or
stumbles;
no
one
slumbers
or
sleeps
. No
belt
is
loose
and
no
sandal
strap
is
broken.
Whose
arrows `
are '
sharp
, and all its
bows bent,
Hoofs
of its
horses as
flint have
been
reckoned,
And
its
wheels as
a hurricane!
Their
arrows are sharpened
, and all their
bows are
strung.
The
hooves
of their
horses are
like
flint ;
their
chariot
wheels are
like
a whirlwind.
Its
roaring `
is '
like a lioness,
It
roareth
like young lions ,
And
it
howleth,
and seizeth
prey ,
And
carrieth
away safely,
and
there
is
none
delivering
.
Their
roaring is like that
of
a lion;
they
roar
like young lions .
They
growl
and seize
their
prey ;
they
carry
it
away from
deliverance
.
And
it
howleth
against
it
in that day as
the howling
of a
sea ,
And
it
hath
looked
attentively
to
the land, And
lo,
darkness --
distress,
And light hath
been
darkened
by its
abundance!
In that day they
will
roar
over
it,
like
the roaring
of the
sea .
If
one
looks
over
the land, he
will
see
darkness and distress;
even
the
light will
be
obscured
by clouds.
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