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and ye men of Juda, judge between me and my opened her mouth without any bounds, and their
vineyard. strong ones, and their people, and their high and
4 What is there that I ought to do more to my glorious ones shall go down into it.
vineyard, that I have not done to it? was it that 15 And man shall be brought down, and man
I looked that it should bring forth grapes, and it shall be humbled, and the eyes of the lofty shall
hath brought forth wild grapes? be brought low.
5 And now I will shew you what I will do to 16 And the Lord of hosts shall be exalted in
my vineyard. I will take away the hedge thereof, judgment, and the holy God shall be sanctified
and it shall be wasted: I will break down the in justice.
wall thereof, and it shall be trodden down. 17 And the lambs shall feed according to their
6 And I will make it desolate: it shall not be order, and strangers shall eat the deserts turned
pruned, and it shall not be digged: but briers into fruitfulness.
and thorns shall come up: and I will command 18 Woe to you that draw iniquity with cords
the clouds to rain no rain upon it. of vanity, and sin as the rope of a cart.
7 For the vineyard of the Lord of hosts is the 19 That say: Let him make haste, and let his
house of Israel: and the man of Juda, his pleas- work come quickly, that we may see it: and let
ant plant: and I looked that he should do judg- the counsel of the Holy One of Israel come, that
ment, and behold iniquity: and do justice, and we may know it.
behold a cry. 20 Woe to you that call evil good, and good
8 Woe to you that join house to house and lay evil: that put darkness for light, and light for
field to field, even to the end of the place: shall darkness: that put bitter for sweet, and sweet
you alone dwell in the midst of the earth? for bitter.
9 These things are in my ears, saith the Lord 21 Woe to you that are wise in your own eyes,
of hosts: Unless many great and fair houses shall and prudent in your own conceits.
become desolate, without an inhabitant. 22 Woe to you that are mighty to drink wine,
10 For ten acres of vineyard shall yield one and stout men at drunkenness.
little measure, and thirty bushels of seed shall 23 That justify the wicked for gifts, and take
yield three bushels. away the justice of the just from him.
11 Woe to you that rise up early in the morn- 24 Therefore as the tongue of the fire de-
ing to follow drunkenness, and to drink in the voureth the stubble, and the heat of the flame
evening, to be inflamed with wine. consumeth it: so shall their root be as ashes,
12 The harp, and the lyre, and, the timbrel and their bud shall go up as dust: for they have
and the pipe, and wine are in your feasts: and cast away the law of the Lord of hosts, and have
the work of the Lord you regard not, nor do you blasphemed the word of the Holy One of Israel.
consider the works of his hands. 25 Therefore is the wrath of the Lord kindled
13 Therefore is my people led away captive, against his people, and he hath stretched out
because they had not knowledge, and their no- his hand upon them, and struck them: and the
bles have perished with famine, and their multi- mountains were troubles, and their carcasses be-
tude were dried up with thirst. came as dung in the midst of the streets. For
14 Therefore hath hell enlarged her soul, and after this his anger is not turned away, but his