Isaiah Chapter 5

God’s judgements on various sins

5:1 Now will I sing to my well beloved a song of my beloved touching his vineyard. My well beloved has a vineyard in a very fruitful hill:
5:2 And he fenced it, and gathered out the stones of it, and planted it with the choicest vine, and built a tower in the middle of it, and also made a wine press in it: and he looked that it should bring forth grapes, and it brought forth wild grapes.
5:3 And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem, and men of Judahיְהוּדָה‎
Modern: Yəhūda, Tiberian: Yŭhūḏā), literally “thanksgiving” or “praise,” is the noun form of the root Y-D-H (ידה), “to thank” or “to praise. The fourth of the six sons of Jacob and Leah. Also referring to the tribe of Judah or The Kingdom of Judah For more info click here, Please judge between me and my vineyard.
5:4 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?
5:5 And now go to; I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard: I will take away the hedge of it, and it shall be eaten up; and break down the wall of it, and it shall be stomped down:
5:6 And I will lay it to waste: it shall not be pruned, nor dug; but there shall come up briars and thorns: I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain on it.
5:7 Because the vineyard of YAHWEH יְהֹוָה‎
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here of hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judahיְהוּדָה‎
Modern: Yəhūda, Tiberian: Yŭhūḏā), literally “thanksgiving” or “praise,” is the noun form of the root Y-D-H (ידה), “to thank” or “to praise. The fourth of the six sons of Jacob and Leah. Also referring to the tribe of Judah or The Kingdom of Judah For more info click here his pleasant plant: and he looked for judgment, but saw oppression; for righteousness, but saw a cry.
5:8 Woe to them that touch house to house, that lay field to field, till there be no place, that they may be placed alone in the middle of the earth!
5:9 In my ears said YAHWEH יְהֹוָה‎
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here of hosts, Of a truth many houses shall be desolate, even great and fair, without inhabitant.
5:10 Yes, ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and the seed of a homer shall yield an ephahאֵיפָה
noun — an ancient Hebrew dry measure equivalent to a bushel (35 l). — ORIGIN — from Hebrew ‘ēp̱āh, probably from Egyptian, also can be the receptacle for measuring or holding that amount For more info click here.
5:11 Woe to them that get up early in the morning, that they may follow strong drink; that continue until night, till wine inflame them!
5:12 And the harp, and the lute, the tabretתֹּף
Transliteration: tōp̄ The timbrel or tabret (also known as the tof of the ancient Hebrews, the deff of Islam, the adufe of the Moors of Spain) was the principal percussion instrument of the ancient Israelites. It resembled either a frame drum or a modern tambourine.For more info click here, and flute, and wine, are in their feasts: but they don’t regard the work of YAHWEH יְהֹוָה‎
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here, neither consider the operation of his hands.
5:13 So my people are gone into captivity, because they have no knowledge: and their honorable men are famished, and their multitude dried up with thirst.
5:14 So Sheolשְׁאוֹל‎
Transliteration: šᵊ’ôl Pronunciation: sheh-ole’ underworld, grave, hell, pit For more info click here has enlarged herself, and opened her mouth without measure: and their glory, and their multitude, and their roar, and he that rejoices, shall descend into it.
5:15 And the man shall be brought down, and the mighty man shall be humbled, and the eyes of the lofty shall be humbled:
5:16 But YAHWEH יְהֹוָה‎
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here of hosts shall be exalted in judgment, and EL אֵל
‎Transliteration:ēl Pronunciation:ale — masculine noun — God, god-like one, mighty one occurs 245 times in 235 verses in the WLC Hebrew click here that is holyקָדוֹשׁ‎
Transliteration qāḏôš Pronunciation kaw-doshe’ sacred, holy, Holy One, saint, set apart For more info click here shall be sanctified in righteousness.
5:17 Then shall the lambs feed after their manner, and the waste places of the fat ones shall strangers eat.
5:18 Woe to them that draw out iniquity with ropes of falsehood, and sin like it were with a cart rope:
5:19 That say, Let him make speed, and hurry his work, that we may see it: and let the counsel of the Holy Oneקָדוֹשׁ‎
Transliteration qāḏôš Pronunciation kaw-doshe’ sacred, holy, Holy One, saint, set apart For more info click here of Israel draw near and come, that we may know it!
5:20 Woe to them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!
5:21 Woe to them that are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight!
5:22 Woe to them that are mighty to drink wine, and men of strength to mix strong drink:
5:23 That justify the wicked for reward, and take away the righteousness of the righteous from him!
5:24 So like the fire devours the straw, and the flame consumes the chaff, so their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust: because they have thrown away the Torah תּוֹרָה‎
Tōrā,/ˈtɔːrə, ˈtoʊrə/; law, teaching, direction, instruction – The first five books of the Bible or also called “the books of Moses” comes from an archery term meaning to shoot. of YAHWEH יְהֹוָה‎
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here of hosts, and despised the word of the Holy Oneקָדוֹשׁ‎
Transliteration qāḏôš Pronunciation kaw-doshe’ sacred, holy, Holy One, saint, set apart For more info click here of Israel.
5:25 So is the anger of YAHWEH יְהֹוָה‎
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here kindled against his people, and he has stretched forth his hand against them, and has struck them: and the hills did tremble, and their carcasses were torn (or like dung) in the middle of the streets. For all this his anger isn’t turned away, but his hand is out stretched still.
5:26 And he will lift up a banner to the nations from far, and will whistle to them from the end of the earth: and, see, they shall come swiftly with speed:
5:27 No one shall be weary nor stumble among them; none shall slumber nor sleep; neither shall the girdle of their loins be loosed, nor the latchet of their shoes be broken:
5:28 Whose arrows are sharp, and all their bows bent, their horses’ hoofs shall be counted like flint, and their wheels like a whirlwind:
5:29 Their roaring shall be like a lion, they shall roar like young lions: yes, they shall roar, and lay hold of the prey, and shall carry it away safe, and none shall deliver it.
5:30 And in that day they shall roar against them like the roaring of the sea: and if one look to the land, see darkness and sorrow (or distress), and the light is darkened in the heavens of it.