Isaiah 5

NEW AMERICAN BIBLE	DOUAI-RHEIMS
1 Let me now sing of my friend, my friend's song concerning his vineyard. My friend had a vineyard on a fertile hillside;	1 For ten acres of vineyard shall yield one little measure, and thirty bushels of seed shall yield three bushels.
2 He spaded it, cleared it of stones, and planted the choicest vines; Within it he built a watchtower, and hewed out a wine press. Then he looked for the crop of grapes, but what it yielded was wild grapes.	2 dummy verses inserted by amos
3 Now, inhabitants of Jerusalem and men of Judah, judge between me and my vineyard:	3 dummy verses inserted by amos
4 What more was there to do for my vineyard that I had not done? Why, when I looked for the crop of grapes, did it bring forth wild grapes?	4 dummy verses inserted by amos
5 Now, I will let you know what I mean to do to my vineyard: Take away its hedge, give it to grazing, break through its wall, let it be trampled!	5 dummy verses inserted by amos
6 Yes, I will make it a ruin: it shall not be pruned or hoed, but overgrown with thorns and briers; I will command the clouds not to send rain upon it.	6 dummy verses inserted by amos
7 The vineyard of the LORD of hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah are his cherished plant; He looked for judgment, but see, bloodshed! for justice, but hark, the outcry!	7 dummy verses inserted by amos
8 Woe to you who join house to house, who connect field with field, Till no room remains, and you are left to dwell alone in the midst of the land!	8 dummy verses inserted by amos
9 In my hearing the LORD of hosts has sworn: Many houses shall be in ruins, large ones and fine, with no one to live in them.	9 dummy verses inserted by amos
10 Ten acres of vineyard shall yield but one liquid measure, And a homer of seed shall yield but an ephah.	10 dummy verses inserted by amos
11 Woe to those who demand strong drink as soon as they rise in the morning, And linger into the night while wine inflames them!	11 Woe to you that rise up early in the morning to follow drunkenness, and to drink till the evening, to be inflamed with wine.
12 With harp and lyre, timbrel and flute, they feast on wine; But what the LORD does, they regard not, the work of his hands they see not.	12 The harp, and the lyre, and the timbrel, and the pipe, and wine are in your feasts: and the work of the Lord you regard not, nor do you consider the works of his hands.
13 Therefore my people go into exile, because they do not understand; Their nobles die of hunger, and their masses are parched with thirst.	13 Therefore is my people led away captive, because they had not knowledge, and their nobles have perished with famine, and their multitude were dried up with thirst.
14 Therefore the nether world enlarges its throat and opens its maw without limit; Down go their nobility and their masses, their throngs and their revelry.	14 Therefore hath hell enlarged her soul, and opened her mouth without any bounds, and their strong ones, and their people, and their high and glorious ones shall go down into it.
15 Men shall be abased, each one brought low, and the eyes of the haughty lowered,	15 And man shall be brought down, and man shall be humbled, and the eyes of the lofty shall be brought low.
16 But the LORD of hosts shall be exalted by his judgment, and God the Holy shall be shown holy by his justice.	16 And the Lord of hosts shall be exalted in judgment, and the holy God shall be sanctified in justice.
17 Lambs shall graze there at pasture, and kids shall eat in the ruins of the rich.	17 And the lambs shall feed according to their order, and strangers shall eat the deserts turned into fruitfulness.
18 Woe to those who tug at guilt with cords of perversity, and at sin as if with cart ropes!	18 Woe to you that draw iniquity with cords of vanity, and sin as the rope of a cart.
19 To those who say, "Let him make haste and speed his work, that we may see it; On with the plan of the Holy One of Israel! let it come to pass, that we may know it!"	19 That say: Let him make haste, and let his work come quickly, that we may see it: and let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel come, that we may know it.
20 Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil, who change darkness into light, and light into darkness, who change bitter into sweet, and sweet into bitter!	20 Woe to you 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 to those who are wise in their own sight, and prudent in their own esteem!	21 Woe to you that rue wise in your own eyes, and prudent in your own conceits.
22 Woe to the champions at drinking wine, the valiant at mixing strong drink!	22 Woe to you that are mighty to drink wine, and stout men at drunkenness.
23 To those who acquit the guilty for bribes, and deprive the just man of his rights!	23 That justify the wicked for gifts, and take away the justice of the just from him.
24 Therefore, as the tongue of fire licks up stubble, as dry grass shrivels in the flame, Even so their root shall become rotten and their blossom scatter like dust; For they have spurned the law of the LORD of hosts, and scorned the word of the Holy One of Israel.	24 Therefore as the tongue of the fire devoureth the stubble, and the heat of the dame consumeth it: so shall their root be as ashes, and their bud shall go up se dust: for they have cast away the law of the Lord of hosts, and have blasphemed the word of the Holy One of Israel.
25 Therefore the wrath of the LORD blazes against his people, he raises his hand to strike them; When the mountains quake, their corpses shall be like refuse in the streets. For all this, his wrath is not turned back, and his hand is still outstretched.	25 Therefore is the wrath of the Lord kindled against his people, and he hath stretched out his hand upon them, and struck them: and the mountains were troubled, and their carcasses became as dung in the midst of the streets. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.
26 He will give a signal to a far-off nation, and whistle to them from the ends of the earth; speedily and promptly will they come.	26 And he will lift up a sign to the nations afar off, and will whistle to them from the ends of the earth: and behold they shall come with speed swiftly.
27 None of them will stumble with weariness, none will slumber and none will sleep. None will have his waist belt loose, nor the thong of his sandal broken.	27 There is none that shall faint, nor labour among them: they shall not slumber nor sleep, neither shall the girdle of their loins be loosed, nor the latchet of their shoes be broken.
28 Their arrows are sharp, and all their bows are bent. The hoofs of their horses seem like flint, and their chariot wheels like the hurricane.	28 Their arrows are sharp, and all their bows are bent. The hoofs of their horses shall be like the hint, and their wheels like the violence of a tempest.
29 Their roar is that of the lion, like the lion's whelps they roar; They growl and seize the prey, they carry it off and none will rescue it.	29 Their roaring like that of a lion, they shall roar like young lions: yea they shall roar, and take hold of the prey, and they shall keep fast hold of it, and there shall be none to deliver it.
30 (They will roar over it, on that day, with a roaring like that of the sea.)	30 And they shall make a noise against them that day, like the roaring of the sea; we shall look towards the land, and behold darkness of tribulation, and the light is darkened with the mist thereof.