Isaiah 5:7-16 (6th Hour)
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- For the vineyard of the Lord of hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah are His pleasant plant. He looked for justice, but behold, oppression; for righteousness, but behold, a cry for help.
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- Woe to those who join house to house; they add field to field, till there is no place where they may dwell alone in the midst of the land!
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- In my hearing the Lord of hosts said, “Truly, many houses shall be desolate, great and beautiful ones, without inhabitant.
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- For ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and a homer of seed shall yield one ephah.”
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- Woe to those who rise early in the morning, that they may follow intoxicating drink; who continue until night, till wine inflames them!
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- The harp and the strings, the tambourine and flute, and wine are in their feasts; but they do not regard the work of the Lord, nor consider the operation of His hands.
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- Therefore my people have gone into captivity, because they have no knowledge; their honorable men are famished, and their multitude dried up with thirst.
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- Therefore Sheol has enlarged itself and opened its mouth beyond measure; their glory and their multitude and their pomp, and he who is jubilant, shall descend into it.
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- People shall be brought down, each man shall be humbled, and the eyes of the lofty shall be humbled.
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- But the Lord of hosts shall be exalted in judgment, and God who is holy shall be hallowed in righteousness.