18“Come, e-let us reach an understanding, -e
—says the LORD.
Be your sins like crimson,
They can turn snow-white;
Be they red as dyed wool,
They can become like fleece.”
19If, then, you agree and give heed,
You will eat the good things of the earth;
20But if you refuse and disobey,
f-You will be devoured [by] the sword.-f—
For it was the LORD who spoke.
21Alas, she has become a harlot,
The faithful city
That was filled with justice,
Where righteousness dwelt—
But now murderers.
22Yourg silver has turned to dross;
e-Your wine is cut with water.-e
23Your rulers are rogues
And cronies of thieves,
Every one avid for presents
And greedy for gifts;
They do not judge the case of the orphan,
And the widow’s cause never reaches them.
24Assuredly, this is the declaration
Of the Sovereign, the LORD of Hosts,
The Mighty One of Israel:
“Ah, I will get satisfaction from My foes;
I will wreak vengeance on My enemies!
25I will turn My hand against you,
And smelt out your dross h-as with lye,-h
And remove all your slag:
26I will restore your magistrates as of old,
And your counselors as of yore.
After that you shall be called
City of Righteousness, Faithful City.”
27iZion shall be saved in the judgment;
Her repentant ones, in the retribution.j
28But rebels and sinners shall all be crushed,
And those who forsake the LORD shall perish.
29Truly, youk shall be shamed
Because of the terebinths you desired,
And you shall be confounded
Because of the gardens you coveted.
30For you shall be like a terebinth
Wilted of leaf,
And like a garden
That has no water,
31l-Stored wealth-l shall become as tow,
And he who amassed it a spark;
And the two shall burn together,
With none to quench.
2 The word that Isaiah son of Amoz prophesied concerning Judah and Jerusalem.
2In the days to come,
The Mount of the LORD’s House
Shall stand firm above the mountains
And tower above the hills;
And all the nations
Shall gaze on it with joy.
3And the many peoples shall go and say:
“Come,
Let us go up to the Mount of the LORD,
To the House of the God of Jacob;
That He may instruct us in His ways,
And that we may walk in His paths.”
For instruction shall come fortha from Zion,
The word of the LORD from Jerusalem.
4Thus He will judge among the nations
And arbitrate for the many peoples,
And they shall beat their swords into plowsharesb
And their spears into pruning hooks:
Nation shall not take up
Sword against nation;
They shall never again knowc war.
5O House of Jacob!
Come, let us walk
By the light of the LORD.
6For you have forsaken [the ways of] your people,
O House of Jacob!
d-For they are full [of practices] from the East,
And of soothsaying like the Philistines;
They abound in customse of the aliens.-d
7Their land is full of silver and gold,
There is no limit to their treasures;
Their land is full of horses,
There is no limit to their chariots.
8And their land is full of idols;
They bow down to the work of their hands,
To what their own fingers have wrought.
9But man shall be humbled,
And mortal brought low—
f-Oh, do not forgive them!-f
10Go deep into the rock,
Bury yourselves in the ground,
Before the terror of the LORD
And His dread majesty!
11Man’s haughty look shall be brought low,
And the pride of mortals shall be humbled.
None but the LORD shall be
Exalted in that day.
12For the LORD of Hosts has ready a day
Against all that is proud and arrogant,
Against all that is lofty—so that it is brought low:
13Against all the cedars of Lebanon,
Tall and stately,
And all the oaks of Bashan;
14Against all the high mountains
And all the lofty hills;
15Against every soaring tower
And every mighty wall;
16Against all the g-ships of Tarshish-g
And all the gallant barks.
17Then man’s haughtiness shall be humbled
And the pride of man brought low.
None but the LORD shall be
Exalted in that day.
18As for idols, they shall vanish completely.
19And men shall enter caverns in the rock
And hollows in the ground—
Before the terror of the LORD
And His dread majesty,
When He comes forth to overawe the earth.
20On that day, men shall fling away,
To the h-flying foxes-h and the bats,
The idols of silver
And the idols of gold
Which they made for worshiping.
21And they shall enter the clefts in the rocks
And the crevices in the cliffs,
Before the terror of the LORD
And His dread majesty,
When He comes forth to overawe the earth.
22Oh, cease to glorify man,
Who has only a breath in his nostrils!
For by what does he merit esteem?
3 For lo!
The Sovereign LORD of Hosts
Will remove from Jerusalem and from Judah
Prop and stay,
Every prop of food
And every prop of water:a
2Soldier and warrior,
Magistrate and prophet,
Augur and elder;
3Captain of fifty,
Magnate and counselor,
Skilled artisan and expert enchanter;b
4And Hec will make boys their rulers,
And babes shall govern them.
5So the people shall oppress one another—
Each oppressing his fellow:
The young shall bully the old;
And the despised [shall bully] the honored.
6For should a man seize his brother,
d-In whose father’s house there is clothing:-d
“Come, be a chief over us,
And let this ruine be under your care,”
7The other will thereupon protest,
“I will not be a dresser of wounds,
With no food or clothing in my own house.
You shall not make me chief of a people!”
8Ah, Jerusalem has stumbled,
And Judah has fallen,
Because by word and deed
They insult the LORD,
Defying His majestic glance.
9Their partiality in judgmentf accuses them;
They avow their sins like Sodom,
They do not conceal them.
Woe to them! For ill
Have they served themselves.
10(Hailg the just man, for he shall fare well;
He shall eat the fruit of his works.
11Woe to the wicked man, for he shall fare ill;
As his hands have dealt, so shall it be done to him.)
12My people’s rulers are babes,
It is governed by women.h
O my people!
Your leaders are misleaders;
They have confused the course of your paths.
13The LORD stands up to plead a cause,
He rises to champion peoples.i
14The LORD will bring this charge
Against the elders and officers of His people:
“It is you who have ravaged the vineyard;
That which was robbed from the poor is in your houses.
15How dare you crush My people
And grind the faces of the poor?”
—says my Lord GOD of Hosts.
16The LORD said:
“Because the daughters of Zion
Are so vain
And walk with j-heads thrown back,-j
With roving eyes,
And with mincing gait,
Making a tinkling with their feet”—
17My Lord will barek the pates
Of the daughters of Zion,
The LORD will uncover their heads.
18In that day, my LORD will strip off the fineryl of the anklets, the fillets, and the crescents; 19of the eardrops, the bracelets, and the veils; 20the turbans, the armlets, and the sashes; of the talismans and the amulets; 21the signet rings and the nose rings; 22of the festive robes, the mantles, and the shawls; the purses, 23the lace gowns, and the linen vests; and the kerchiefs and the capes.
24And then—
Instead of perfume, there shall be rot;
And instead of an apron, a rope;
Instead of a diadem of beaten-work,
A shorn head;
Instead of a rich robe,
A girding of sackcloth;
m-A burn instead of beauty.-m
25Hern men shall fall by the sword,
Her fighting manhood in battle;
26And her gates shall lament and mourn,
And o-she shall be emptied,-o
Shall sit on the ground.
4 In that day, seven women shall take hold of one man, saying,
“We will eat our own food
And wear our own clothes;
Only let us be called by your name—
Take away our disgrace!”
2aIn that day,
The radiance of the LORD
Will lend beauty and glory,
And the splendor of b-the land-b
[Will give] dignity and majesty,
To the survivors of Israel.
3And those who remain in Zion
And are left in Jerusalem—
All who are inscribed for life in Jerusalem—
Shall be called holy.
4When my Lord has washed away
The filth of c-the daughters of Zion,-c
And from Jerusalem’s midst
Has rinsed out her infamy—
In a spirit of judgment
And in a spirit of purging—
5the LORD will created over the whole shrine and meeting place of Mount Zion cloud by day and smoke with a glow of flaming fire by night. Indeed, over e-all the glory-eshall hang a canopy, 6which shall serve as a pavilion for shade from heat by day and as a shelter for protection against drenching rain.
5 Let me sing for my beloved
A song of my lover about his vineyard.
My beloved had a vineyard
a-On a fruitful hill.-a
2He broke the ground, cleared it of stones,
And planted it with choice vines.
He built a watchtower inside it,
He even hewed a wine press in it;
For he hoped it would yield grapes.
Instead, it yielded wild grapes.
3“Now, then,
Dwellers of Jerusalem
And men of Judah,
You be the judges
Between Me and My vineyard:
4What more could have been done for My vineyard
That I failed to do in it?
Why, when I hoped it would yield grapes,
Did it yield wild grapes?
5“Now I am going to tell you
What I will do to My vineyard:
I will remove its hedge,
That it may be ravaged;
I will break down its wall,
That it may be trampled.
6And I will a-make it a desolation;a-
It shall not be pruned or hoed,
And it shall be overgrown with briers and thistles.
And I will command the clouds
To drop no rain on it.”
7For the vineyard of the LORD of Hosts
Is the House of Israel,
And the seedlings he lovingly tended
Are the men of Judah.
bAnd He hoped for justice,
But behold, injustice;
For equity,
But behold, iniquity!
8Ah,
Those who add house to house
And join field to field,
Till there is room for none but you
To dwell in the land!
9In my hearing [said] the LORD of Hosts:
Surely, great houses
Shall lie forlorn,
Spacious and splendid ones
Without occupants.
10For ten acres of vineyard
Shall yield just one bath,c
And a field sown with a homer of seed
Shall yield a mere ephah.
11Ah,
Those who chase liquor
From early in the morning,
And till late in the evening
Are inflamed by wine!
12d- Who, at their banquets,
Haved- lyre and lute,
Timbrel, flute, and wine;
But who never give a thought
To the plan of the LORD,
And take no note
Of what He is designing.
13Assuredly,
My people will suffer exile
For not giving heed,
Its multitude victims of hunger
And its masses parched with thirst.
14Assuredly,
Sheol has opened wide its gullet
And parted its jaws in a measureless gape;
And down into it shall go,
That splendor and tumult,
That din and revelry.
15Yea, man is bowed,
And mortal brought low;
Brought low is the pride of the haughty.
16And the LORD of Hosts is exalted by judgment,
The Holy God
