Isaiah 5:8-23

8Woe to those who join house to house; They add field to field, Till there is no place Where they may dwell alone in the midst of the land!

9In my hearing the Lord of hosts said, “Truly, many houses shall be desolate, Great and beautiful ones, without inhabitant.

10For ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, And a homer of seed shall yield one ephah.”

11Woe to those who rise early in the morning, That they may follow intoxicating drink; Who continue until night, till wine inflames them!

12The harp and the strings, The tambourine and flute, And wine are in their feasts; But they do not regard the work of the Lord, Nor consider the operation of His hands.

13Therefore my people have gone into captivity, Because they have no knowledge; Their honorable men are famished, And their multitude dried up with thirst.

14Therefore Sheol has enlarged itself And opened its mouth beyond measure; Their glory and their multitude and their pomp, And he who is jubilant, shall descend into it.

15People shall be brought down, Each man shall be humbled, And the eyes of the lofty shall be humbled.

16But the Lord of hosts shall be exalted in judgment, And God who is holy shall be hallowed in righteousness.

17Then the lambs shall feed in their pasture, And in the waste places of the fat ones strangers shall eat.

18Woe to those who draw iniquity with cords of vanity, And sin as if with a cart rope;

19That 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 near and come, That we may know it.”

20Woe 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!

21Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes, And prudent in their own sight!

22Woe to men mighty at drinking wine, Woe to men valiant for mixing intoxicating drink,

23Who justify the wicked for a bribe, And take away justice from the righteous man!