and thy mighty in the war.
[26] And her gates shall lament and mourn; and she being desolate shall sit
upon the ground.
Isa.4
[1] And in that day seven women shall take hold of one man, saying, We will eat our own bread, and
wear our own apparel: only let us be called by thy name, to take away our reproach.
[2] In that day shall
the branch of the LORD be beautiful and glorious, and the fruit of the earth shall be excellent and comely
for them that are escaped of Israel.
[3] And it shall come to pass, that he that is left in Zion, and he that
remaineth in Jerusalem, shall be called holy, even every one that is written among the living in Jerusalem:
[4]
When the Lord shall have washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion, and shall have purged the
blood of Jerusalem from the midst thereof by the spirit of judgment, and by the spirit of burning.
[5] And
the LORD will create upon every dwelling place of mount Zion, and upon her assemblies, a cloud and
smoke by day, and the shining of a flaming fire by night: for upon all the glory shall be a defence.
[6] And
there shall be a tabernacle for a shadow in the daytime from the heat, and for a place of refuge, and for
a covert from storm and from rain.
Isa.5
[1] Now will I sing to my wellbeloved a song of my beloved touching his vineyard. My wellbeloved hath
a vineyard in a very fruitful hill:
[2] And he fenced it, and gathered out the stones thereof, and planted
it with the choicest vine, and built a tower in the midst of it, and also made a winepress therein: and
he looked that it should bring forth grapes, and it brought forth wild grapes.
[3] And now, O inhabitants
of Jerusalem, and men of Judah, judge, I pray you, betwixt me and my vineyard.
[4] What could have
been done more to my vineyard, that I have not done in it? wherefore, when I looked that it should bring
forth grapes, brought it forth wild grapes?
[5] And now go to; I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard: I
will take away the hedge thereof, and it shall be eaten up; and break down the wall thereof, and it shall
be trodden down:
[6] And I will lay it waste: it shall not be pruned, nor digged; but there shall come up
briers and thorns: I will also command the clouds that they 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 pleasant plant: and he looked for
judgment, but behold oppression; for righteousness, but behold a cry.
[8] Woe unto them that join house
to house, that lay field to field, till there be no place, that they may be placed alone in the midst of the
earth!
[9] In mine ears said the LORD of hosts, Of a truth many houses shall be desolate, even great
and fair, without inhabitant.
[10] Yea, ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and the seed of an homer
shall yield an ephah.
[11] Woe unto them that rise up early in the morning, that they may follow strong
drink; that continue until night, till wine inflame them!
[12] And the harp, and the viol, the tabret, and pipe,
and wine, are in their feasts: but they regard not the work of the LORD, neither consider the operation of
his hands.
[13] Therefore my people are gone into captivity, because they have no knowledge: and their
honourable men are famished, and their multitude dried up with thirst.
[14] Therefore hell hath enlarged
herself, and opened her mouth without measure: and their glory, and their multitude, and their pomp, and
he that rejoiceth, shall descend into it.
[15] And the mean man shall be brought down, and the mighty
man shall be humbled, and the eyes of the lofty shall be humbled:
[16] But the LORD of hosts shall be
exalted in judgment, and God that is holy shall be sanctified in righteousness.
[17] Then shall the lambs
feed after their manner, and the waste places of the fat ones shall strangers eat.
[18] Woe unto them
that draw iniquity with cords of vanity, and sin as it were with a cart rope:
[19] That say, Let him make
speed, and hasten his work, that we may see it: and let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel draw nigh
and come, that we may know it!
[20] Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness
for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!
[21] Woe unto them that are
wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight!
[22] Woe unto them that are mighty to drink wine,
and men of strength to mingle strong drink:
[23] Which justify the wicked for reward, and take away the
righteousness of the righteous from him!
[24] Therefore as the fire devoureth the stubble, and the flame
consumeth the chaff, so their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust: because
they have cast away the law of the LORD of hosts, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.
[25]
Therefore is the anger of the LORD kindled against his people, and he hath stretched forth his hand