Yesha`yahu, starting at chapter 4
{4:1} Seven women shall take hold of one man in that day, saying,
"We will eat our own bread, and wear our own clothing: only let us be
called by your name. Take away our reproach."
{4:2} In that day, the LORD's branch will be beautiful and glorious,
and the fruit of the land will be the beauty and glory of the
survivors of Yisra'el. {4:3} It will happen, that he who is left in
Tziyon, and he who remains in Yerushalayim, shall be called holy, even
everyone who is written among the living in Yerushalayim; {4:4} when
the Lord shall have washed away the filth of the daughters of Tziyon,
and shall have purged the blood of Yerushalayim from its midst, by the
spirit of justice, and by the spirit of burning. {4:5} The LORD will
create over the whole habitation of Mount Tziyon, and over her
assemblies, a cloud and smoke by day, and the shining of a flaming
fire by night; for over all the glory will be a canopy. {4:6} There
will be a pavilion for a shade in the daytime from the heat, and for a
refuge and for a shelter from storm and from rain.
{5:1} Let me sing for my well beloved a song of my beloved about his
vineyard.
My beloved had a vineyard on a very fruitful hill.
{5:2} He dug it up,
Gathered out its stones,
Planted it with the choicest vine,
Built a tower in its midst,
And also cut out a winepress therein.
He looked for it to yield grapes,
But it yielded wild grapes.
{5:3} "Now, inhabitants of Yerushalayim and men of Yehudah,
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?
Why, when I looked for it to yield grapes, did it yield wild grapes?
{5:5} Now I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard.
I will take away its hedge, and it will be eaten up.
I will break down its wall of it, and it will be trampled down.
{5:6} I will lay it a wasteland.
It won't be pruned nor hoed,
But it will grow briers and thorns.
I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain on it."
{5:7} For the vineyard of the LORD of Hosts is the house of Yisra'el,
And the men of Yehudah his pleasant plant:
And he looked for justice, but, behold, oppression;
For righteousness, but, behold, a cry of distress.
{5:8} Woe to those who join house to house,
Who lay field to field, until there is no room,
And you are made to dwell alone in the midst of the land!
{5:9} In my ears, the LORD of Hosts says: "Surely many houses will be
desolate,
Even great and beautiful, unoccupied.
{5:10} For ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath,
And a homer of seed shall yield an efah."
{5:11} Woe to those who rise up early in the morning, that they may
follow strong drink;
Who stay late into the night, until wine inflames them!
{5:12} The harp, lyre, tambourine, and flute, with wine, are at their
feasts;
But they don't regard the work of the LORD,
Neither have they considered the operation of his hands.
{5:13} Therefore my people have go into captivity for lack of
knowledge;
Their honorable men are famished,
And their multitudes are parched with thirst.
{5:14} Therefore She'ol has enlarged its desire,
And opened its mouth without measure;
And their glory, their multitude, their pomp, and he who rejoices
among them, descend into it.
{5:15} So man is brought low,
Mankind is humbled,
And the eyes of the arrogant ones are humbled;
{5:16} But the LORD of Hosts is exalted in justice,
And God the Holy One is sanctified in righteousness.
{5:17} Then the lambs will graze as in their pasture,
And strangers will eat the ruins of the rich.
{5:18} Woe to those who draw iniquity with cords of falsehood,
And wickedness as with cart rope;
{5:19} Who say, "Let him make speed, let him hasten his work, that we
may see it;
And let the counsel of the Holy One of Yisra'el draw near and come,
That we may know it!"
{5:20} Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil;
Who put darkness for light,
And light for darkness;
Who put bitter for sweet,
And sweet for bitter!
{5:21} Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes,
And prudent in their own sight!
{5:22} Woe to those who are mighty to drink wine,
And champions at mixing strong drink;
{5:23} Who acquit the guilty for a bribe,
But deny justice for the innocent!
{5:24} Therefore as the tongue of fire devours the stubble,
And as the dry grass sinks down in the flame,
So their root shall be as rottenness,
And their blossom shall go up as dust;
Because they have rejected Yaweh's law of Hosts,
And despised the word of the Holy One of Yisra'el.
{5:25} Therefore the LORD's anger burns against his people,
And he has stretched out his hand against them, and has struck them.
The mountains tremble,
And their dead bodies are as refuse in the midst of the streets.
For all this, his anger is not turned away,
But his hand is still stretched out.
{5:26} He will lift up a banner to the nations from far,
And he will whistle for them from the end of the [1>]eretz[<1].
Behold, they will come speedily and swiftly.
{5:27} None shall be weary nor stumble among them;
None shall slumber nor sleep;
Neither shall the belt 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 will be like flint,
And their wheels like a whirlwind.
{5:29} Their roaring will be like a lioness.
They will roar like young lions.
Yes, they shall roar,
And seize their prey and carry it off,
And there will be no one to deliver.
{5:30} They will roar against thsem in that day like the roaring of
the sea.
If one looks to the land, behold, darkness and distress.
The light is darkened in its clouds.
{6:1} In the year that king `Uzziyah died, I saw the Lord sitting on
a throne, high and lifted up; and his train filled the temple. {6:2}
Above him stood the serafim. Each one had six wings. With two he
covered his face. With two he covered his feet. With two he flew.
{6:3} One called to another, and said,
"Holy, holy, holy, is the LORD of Hosts!
The whole [1>]eretz[<1] is full of his glory!"
{6:4} The foundations of the thresholds shook at the voice of him
who called, and the house was filled with smoke. {6:5} Then I said,
"Woe is me! For I am undone, because I am a man of unclean lips, and I
dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for my eyes have seen
the King, the LORD of Hosts!"
{6:6} Then one of the serafim flew to me, having a live coal in his
hand, which he had taken with the tongs from off the altar. {6:7} He
touched my mouth with it, and said, "Behold, this has touched your
lips; and your iniquity is taken away, and your sin forgiven."
{6:8} I heard the Lord's voice, saying, "Whom shall I send, and who
will go for us?"
Then I said, "Here I am. Send me!"
{6:9} He said, "Go, and tell this people,
'You hear indeed,
But don't understand;
And you see indeed,
But don't perceive.'
{6:10} Make the heart of this people fat;
Make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes;
Lest they see with their eyes,
And hear with their ears,
And understand with their heart,
And turn again, and be healed."
{6:11} Then I said, "Lord, how long?"
He answered,
"Until cities are waste without inhabitant,
And houses without man,
And the land becomes utterly waste,
{6:12} And the LORD has removed men far away,
And the forsaken places are many in the midst of the land.
{6:13} If there are yet a tenth in it,
It also shall in turn be eaten up:
As a terebinth, and as an oak, whose stock remains, when they are
felled;
So the holy seed is its stock."
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Footnotes:
[1] {5:26} earth
[1] {6:3} earth
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