Isaiah 5:7-17

7The vineyard of the Lord of Armies is the nation of Israel, and the people of Judah are the garden of his delight. He hoped for justice but saw only slaughter, for righteousness but heard only cries of distress.

8How horrible it will be for you who acquire house after house and buy field after field until there’s nothing left and you have to live by yourself in the land.

9With my own ears I heard the Lord of Armies say, “Many houses will become empty. Large, beautiful houses will be without people to live in them.

10A ten-acre vineyard will produce only six gallons of wine, and two quarts of seed will produce only four quarts of grain.”

11How horrible it will be for those who get up early to look for a drink, who sit up late until they are drunk from wine.

12At their feasts there are lyres and harps, tambourines and flutes, and wine. Yet, they don’t pay attention to what the Lord is doing or see what his hands have done.

13“My people will go into exile because they don’t understand what I’m doing. Honored men will starve, and common people will be parched with thirst.”

14That is why the grave’s appetite increases. It opens its mouth very wide so that honored people and common people will go down into it. Those who are noisy and joyous will go down into it.

15People will be brought down. Everyone will be humbled. And the eyes of arrogant people will be humbled.

16The Lord of Armies will be honored when he judges. The holy God will show himself to be holy when he does what is right.

17Then lambs will graze as if they were in their own pasture, and foreigners will eat among the ruins of the rich.