1 Now I will sing to [my] beloved a song of my beloved concerning my vineyard. [My] beloved had a vineyard on a high hill in a fertile place. 2 And I made a hedge round it, and dug a trench, and planted a choice vine, and built a tower in the midst of it, and dug a place for the wine vat in it: and I waited [for it] to bring forth grapes, and it brought forth thorns. 3 And now, ye dwellers in Jerusalem, and [every] man of Judah, judge between me and my vineyard. 4 What shall I do anymore to my vineyard, that I have not done to it? Whereas I expected [it] to bring forth grapes, but it has brought forth thorns. 5 And now I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard: I will take away its hedge, and it shall be for a spoil; and I will pull down its walls, and it shall be [left] to be trodden down. 6 And I will forsake my vineyard; and it shall not be pruned, nor dug, and thorns shall come up upon it as on barren land; and I will command the clouds to rain no rain upon it. 7 For the vineyard of the Lord of hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah [his] beloved plant: I expected [it] to bring forth judgment, and it brought forth iniquity; and not righteousness, but a cry. 8 Woe [to them] that join house to house, and add field to field, that they may take away something of their neighbor’s: will ye dwell alone upon the land? 9 For these things have reached the ears of the Lord of hosts: for though many houses should be built, many and fair houses shall be desolate, and there shall be no inhabitants in them. 10 For where ten yoke of oxen plow [the land] shall yield one jarful, and he that sows six homers shall produce three measures. 11 Woe [to them] that rise up in the morning, and follow strong drink; who wait [at it till] the evening: for the wine shall inflame them. 12 For they drink wine with harp, and psaltery, and drums, and pipes: but they regard not the works of the Lord, and consider not the works of his hands. 13 Therefore my people have been taken captive, because they know not the Lord: and there has been a multitude of dead [bodies], because of hunger and of thirst for water. 14 Therefore hell has enlarged its desire and opened its mouth without ceasing: and her glorious and great, and her rich and her pestilent men shall go down [into it]. 15 And the mean man shall be brought low, and the great man shall be disgraced, and the lofty eyes shall be brought low. 16 But the Lord of hosts shall be exalted in judgment, and the holy God shall be glorified in righteousness. 17 And they that were spoiled shall be fed as bulls, and lambs shall feed on the waste places of them that are taken away. 18 Woe [to them] that draw sins to them as with a long rope, and iniquities as with a thong of the heifer’s yoke: 19 who say, Let him speedily hasten what he will do, that we may see [it]: and let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel come, that we may know [it]. 20 Woe [to them] that call evil good, and good evil; who make darkness light, and light darkness; who make bitter sweet, and sweet bitter. 21 Woe [to them] that are wise in their own conceit, and knowing in their own sight. 22 Woe to the strong [ones] of you that drink wine, and the mighty [ones] that mingle strong drink: 23 who justify the ungodly for rewards, and take away the righteousness of the righteous. 24 Therefore as stubble shall be burned by a coal of fire, and shall be consumed by a violent flame, their root shall be as chaff, and their flower shall go up as dust: for they rejected the law of the Lord of hosts, and insulted the word of the Holy One of Israel. 25 Therefore the Lord of hosts was greatly angered against his people, and he reached forth his hand upon them, and smote them: and the mountains were troubled, and their carcasses were as dung in the midst of the way: yet for all this his anger has not been turned away, but his hand is yet raised. 26 Therefore shall he lift up a signal to the nations that are afar, and shall hiss for them from the end of the earth; and, behold, they are coming very quickly. 27 They shall not hunger nor be weary, neither shall they slumber nor sleep; neither shall they loose their girdles from their loins, neither shall their shoe latchets be broken. 28 Whose arrows are sharp, and their bows bent; their horses’ hoofs are counted as solid rock: their chariot wheels are as a storm. 29 They rage as lions, and draw nigh as a lion’s whelps: and he shall seize, and roar as a wild beast, and he shall cast [them] forth, and there shall be none to deliver them. 30 And he shall roar on account of them in that day, as the sound of the swelling sea; and they shall look to the land, and, behold, [there shall be] thick darkness in their perplexity.
Isaiah · Updated Brenton English Septuagint
Isaiah 5 Updated Brenton English Septuagint
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- Same Septuagint text as Brenton, with modernised spelling.
Cross references (30)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Mark 12:1; Luke 20:9; John 15:1; Jeremiah 2:21; Matthew 21:33
- 2 Jeremiah 2:21; Deuteronomy 32:32–33; Isaiah 1:2–4; 1 Corinthians 9:7; Mark 11:13
- 3 Micah 6:2–3; Jeremiah 2:4–5; Psalm 50:4–6; Romans 2:5; Psalm 51:4
- 4 Matthew 23:37; Micah 6:3–4; Jeremiah 2:5; Acts 7:51–60; Jeremiah 6:29–30
- 5 Luke 21:24; Lamentations 1:15; Isaiah 28:18; Revelation 11:2; Isaiah 28:3
- 6 Isaiah 7:23–25; Jeremiah 25:11; Isaiah 24:1–3; Isaiah 24:12; Deuteronomy 28:23–24
- 7 Psalm 80:8–11; Matthew 3:8–10; Jeremiah 12:10; James 5:4; Zechariah 7:9–14
- 8 Micah 2:2; Habakkuk 2:9–12; Jeremiah 22:13–17; Luke 12:16–24; 1 Kings 21:16–20
- 9 Matthew 23:38; Amos 5:11; Isaiah 22:14; Amos 3:7; Isaiah 6:11–12
- 10 Leviticus 26:26; Haggai 2:16; Haggai 1:6; Haggai 1:9–11; Leviticus 27:16
- 11 Proverbs 23:29–30; Romans 13:13; Proverbs 20:1; Isaiah 5:22; Ecclesiastes 10:16–17
- 12 Psalm 28:5; Job 21:11–14; Job 34:27; Amos 6:4–6; Jude 12
- 13 Hosea 4:6; Isaiah 1:3; Isaiah 27:11; Isaiah 1:7; Romans 1:28
- 14 Luke 21:34; Habakkuk 2:5; Proverbs 30:16; Psalm 55:15; Matthew 7:13
- 15 Isaiah 2:11; Isaiah 2:9; Jeremiah 5:4–5; 1 Peter 5:5; Isaiah 37:29
- 16 Psalm 46:10; 1 Chronicles 29:11; Isaiah 12:4; Ezekiel 36:23; Isaiah 29:23
- 17 Zephaniah 2:6; Zephaniah 2:14; Isaiah 7:25; Isaiah 10:16; Psalm 17:14
- 18 Jeremiah 23:14; Psalm 36:2; Jeremiah 5:31; Jeremiah 23:10; Ezekiel 13:22
- 19 Ezekiel 12:22; Jeremiah 17:15; Isaiah 66:5; Jeremiah 23:36; 2 Peter 3:3–4
- 20 Proverbs 17:15; 2 Timothy 3:1–5; Luke 16:15; Malachi 2:17; Job 17:12
- 21 1 Corinthians 3:18–20; Proverbs 3:7; Romans 12:16; Proverbs 26:12; Proverbs 26:16
- 22 Isaiah 5:11; Habakkuk 2:15; Isaiah 28:7; Isaiah 56:12; Proverbs 23:19–20
- 23 Isaiah 10:2; Psalm 94:21; James 5:6; Proverbs 17:15; Proverbs 31:4–5
- 24 Isaiah 30:12; Job 18:16; Joel 2:5; Luke 3:17; Isaiah 47:14
- 25 Isaiah 10:4; Isaiah 9:21; Isaiah 9:17; 2 Kings 9:37; Daniel 9:16
- 26 Zechariah 10:8; Isaiah 7:18; Deuteronomy 28:49; Isaiah 18:3; Isaiah 11:12
- 27 Job 12:18; Joel 2:7–8; Job 12:21; Isaiah 45:1; Isaiah 45:5
- 28 Psalm 45:5; Ezekiel 21:9–11; Nahum 2:3–4; Jeremiah 5:16; Psalm 7:12–13
- 29 Isaiah 42:22; Micah 5:8; Zechariah 11:3; Isaiah 49:24–25; Jeremiah 49:19
- 30 Isaiah 8:22; Joel 2:10; Jeremiah 4:23–28; Revelation 16:10–11; Luke 21:25–26
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… against those who confessed Christ, and that those who slandered Him, and said that it was well to preserve the ancient customs, should be miserable, hear what was briefly said by Isaiah; it is this: "Woe unto them that call sweet bitter, and bitter sweet." Chapter L — His humiliation predicted But that, having become man for our sakes, He …
… the evil, and sends rain upon the just and unjust." And the righteous suffer persecution, are afflicted, and are slain, while sinners are possessed of abundance, and "drink with the sound of the harp and psaltery, but do not regard the works of the Lord." But, according to the language [used by the prophet], they ought to be combined, and …
… he, "whether in pretence or in truth, Christ is preached; and I therein do rejoice, yea, and will rejoice." For it is Christ Himself who planted the vine of which the prophet says, "The vine of the Lord of hosts is the house of Israel;" and He drinks of its wine, whether we thus understand that cup of which He …
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 2 (1887)
For it is no longer "a flying sickle," nor "the taking down of a hedge," nor "the treading under foot of the vineyard;" but an axe exceeding sharp, and what is worse, it is even at the doors.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 10 (1888)
… Esaias aforetime bewail you, saying, My well-beloved had a vineyard in a hill in a fruitful place; and (not to recite the whole) I waited, he says, that it should bring forth grapes; I thirsted that it should give wine; but it brought forth thorns; for thou seest the crown, wherewith I am adorned.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 7 (1894)