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 proved holy by retribution.
17eThen lambs shall graze
As in their meadows,
And strangers shall feed
On the ruins of the stout.
18Ah,
Those who haul sin with cords of falsehood
And iniquity as with cart ropes!
19Who say,f
“Let Him speed, let Him hasten His purpose,
If we are to give thought;
Let the plans of the Holy One of Israel
Be quickly fulfilled,
If we are to give heed.”
20Ah,
Those who call evil good
And good evil;
Who present darkness as light
And light as darkness;
Who present bitter as sweet
And sweet as bitter!
21Ah,
Those who are so wise—
In their own opinion;
So clever—
In their own judgment!
22Ah,
Those who are so doughty—
As drinkers of wine,
And so valiant—
As mixers of drink!
23Who vindicate him who is in the wrong
In return for a bribe,
And withhold vindication
From him who is in the right.
24Assuredly,
As straw is consumed by a tongue of fire
And hay g-shrivels as it burns, g-
Their stock shall become like rot,
And their buds shall blow away like dust.
For they have rejected the instruction of the LORD of Hosts,
Spurned the word of the Holy One of Israel.
25That is why
The LORD’s anger was roused
Against His people,
Why He stretched out His arm against it
And struck it,
So that the mountains quaked,h
And its corpses lay
Like refuse in the streets.
Yet his anger has not turned back,
And His arm is outstretched still.
26He will raise an ensign to a nationi afar,
Whistle to one at the end of the earth.
There it comes with lightning speed!
27In its ranks, none is weary or stumbles,
They never sleep or slumber;
The belts on their waists do not come loose,
Nor do the thongs of their sandals break.
28Their arrows are sharpened,
And all their bows are drawn.
Their horses’ hoofs are like flint,
Their chariot wheels like the whirlwind.
29Their roaring is like a lion’s,
They roar like the great beasts;
When they growl and seize a prey,
They carry it off and none can recover it.
30But in that day, a roaring shall resound over him like that of the sea;j and then he shall look below and, behold,
Distressing darkness, with light;
Darkness, a-in its lowering clouds. -a
6 In the year that King Uzziah died, I beheld my Lord seated on a high and lofty throne; and the skirts of His robe filled the Temple. 2Seraphs stood in attendance on Him. Each of them had six wings: with two he covered his face, with two he covered his legs, and with two he would fly.
3And one would call to the other,
“Holy, holy, holy!
The LORD of Hosts!
His presence fills all the earth!”
4The doorpostsa would shake at the sound of the one who called, and the House kept filling with smoke. 5I cried,
“Woe is me; I am lost!
For I am a man b-of unclean lipsb-
And I live among a people
Of unclean lips;
Yet my own eyes have beheld
The King LORD of Hosts.”
6Then one of the seraphs flew over to me with a live coal, which he had taken from the altar with a pair of tongs. 7He touched it to my lips and declared,
“Now that this has touched your lips,
Your guilt shall depart
And your sin be purged away.”
8Then I heard the voice of my Lord saying, “Whom shall I send? Who will go for us?” And I said, “Here am I; send me.” 9And He said, “Go, say to that people:
‘Hear, indeed, but do not understand;
See, indeed, but do not grasp.’
10Dull that people’s mind,
Stop its cars,
And seal its eyes—
Lest, seeing with its eyes
And hearing with its ears,
It also grasp with its mind,
And repent and savec itself.”
11I asked, “How long, my Lord?” And He replied:
“Till towns lie waste without inhabitants
And houses without people,
And the ground lies waste and desolate—
12For the LORD will banish the population—
And deserted sites are many
In the midst of the land.
13“But while a tenth part yet remains in it, it shall repent. It shall be ravaged like the terebinth and the oak, of which stumps are left even when they are felled: its stump shall be a holy seed.”
7 In the reign of Ahaz son of Jotham son of Uzziah, king of Judah, King Rezin of Aram and King Pekah son of Remaliah of Israel marched upon Jerusalem to attack it; but they were not able to attack it.
2Now, when it was reported to the House of David that Aram had allied itself with Ephraim, their hearts and the hearts of their people trembled as trees of the forest sway before a wind. 3But the LORD said to Isaiah, “Go out with your son Shear-jashuba to meet Ahaz at the end of the conduit of the Upper Pool, by the road of the Fuller’s Field. 4And say to him: Be firm and be calm. Do not be afraid and do not lose heart on account of those two smoking stubs of firebrands, on account of the raging of Rezin and his Arameans and the son of Remaliah.b 5Because the Arameans—with Ephraim and the son of Remaliah—have plotted against you, saying, 6‘We will march against Judah and invade and conquer it, and we will set up as king in it the son of Tabeel,’b 7thus said my Lord GOD:
It shall not succeed,
It shall not come to pass.
8For the chief city of Aram is Damascus,
And the chief of Damascus is Rezin;
9The chief city of Ephraim is Samaria,
And the chief of Samaria is the son of Remaliah.c
d-And in another sixty-five years,
Ephraim shall be shattered as a people.-d
If you will not believe, for you e-cannot be trusted-e…”
10The LORD spoke further to Ahaz: 11“Ask for a sign from the LORD your God, anywhere down to Sheol or up to the sky.” 12But Ahaz
