5:1
cantabo dilecto meo canticum patruelis mei vineae suae vineafacta est dilecto meo in cornu filio olei

5:2
et sepivit eam et lapides elegit ex illa et plantavit eamelectam et aedificavit turrem in medio eius et torcularextruxit in ea et expectavit ut faceret uvas et fecit labruscas

5:3
nunc ergo habitator Hierusalem et vir Iuda iudicate inter meet inter vineam meam

5:4
quid est quod debui ultra facere vineae meae et non feci eian quod expectavi ut faceret uvas et fecit labruscas

5:5
et nunc ostendam vobis quid ego faciam vineae meae auferamsepem eius et erit in direptionem diruam maceriam eius et eritin conculcationem

5:6
et ponam eam desertam non putabitur et non fodietur etascendent vepres et spinae et nubibus mandabo ne pluant supeream imbrem

5:7
vinea enim Domini exercituum domus Israhel et vir Iudagermen delectabile eius et expectavi ut faceret iudicium etecce iniquitas et iustitiam et ecce clamor

5:8
vae qui coniungitis domum ad domum et agrum agro copulatisusque ad terminum loci numquid habitabitis soli vos in medioterrae

5:9
in auribus meis sunt haec Domini exercituum nisi domusmultae desertae fuerint grandes et pulchrae absque habitatore

5:10
decem enim iuga vinearum facient lagunculam unam ettriginta modii sementis facient modios tres

5:11
vae qui consurgitis mane ad ebrietatem sectandam etpotandum usque ad vesperam ut vino aestuetis

5:12
cithara et lyra et tympanum et tibia et vinum in conviviisvestris et opus Domini non respicitis nec opera manuum eiusconsideratis

5:13
propterea captivus ductus est populus meus quia non habuitscientiam et nobiles eius interierunt fame et multitudo eiussiti exaruit

5:14
propterea dilatavit infernus animam suam et aperuit os suumabsque ullo termino et descendent fortes eius et populus eiuset sublimes gloriosique eius ad eum

5:15
et incurvabitur homo et humiliabitur vir et oculi sublimiumdeprimentur

5:16
et exaltabitur Dominus exercituum in iudicio et Deussanctus sanctificabitur in iustitia

5:17
et pascentur agni iuxta ordinem suum et deserta inubertatem versa advenae comedent

5:18
vae qui trahitis iniquitatem in funiculis vanitatis etquasi vinculum plaustri peccatum

5:19
qui dicitis festinet et cito veniat opus eius ut videamuset adpropiet et veniat consilium Sancti Israhel et sciemusillud

5:20
vae qui dicitis malum bonum et bonum malum ponentestenebras lucem et lucem tenebras ponentes amarum in dulce etdulce in amarum

5:21
vae qui sapientes estis in oculis vestris et coram vobismetipsis prudentes

5:22
vae qui potentes estis ad bibendum vinum et viri fortes admiscendam ebrietatem

5:23
qui iustificatis impium pro muneribus et iustitiam iustiaufertis ab eo

5:24
propter hoc sicut devorat stipulam lingua ignis et calorflammae exurit sic radix eorum quasi favilla erit et germeneorum ut pulvis ascendet abiecerunt enim legem Dominiexercituum et eloquium Sancti Israhel blasphemaverunt

5:25
ideo iratus est furor Domini in populo suo et extenditmanum suam super eum et percussit eum et conturbati sunt monteset facta sunt morticina eorum quasi stercus in medio platearumin omnibus his non est aversus furor eius sed adhuc manus eiusextenta

5:26
et levabit signum nationibus procul et sibilabit ad eum definibus terrae et ecce festinus velociter veniet

5:27
non est deficiens neque laborans in eo non dormitabit nequedormiet neque solvetur cingulum renum eius nec rumpeturcorrigia calciamenti eius

5:28
sagittae eius acutae et omnes arcus eius extenti ungulaeequorum eius ut silex et rotae eius quasi impetus tempestatis

5:29
rugitus eius ut leonis rugiet ut catuli leonum et frendetet tenebit praedam et amplexabitur et non erit qui eruat

5:30
et sonabit super eum in die illa sicut sonitus marisaspiciemus in terram et ecce tenebrae tribulationis et luxobtenebrata est in caligine eius

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005:001
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:

005:002
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.

005:003
And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem, and men of Judah, judge, I pray you, betwixt me and my vineyard.

005:004
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?

005:005
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:

005:006
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.

005:007
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.

005:008
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!

005:009
In mine ears said the LORD of hosts, Of a truth many houses shall be desolate, even great and fair, without inhabitant.

005:010
Yea, ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and the seed of an homer shall yield an ephah.

005:011
Woe unto them that rise up early in the morning, that they may follow strong drink; that continue until night, till wine inflame them!

005:012
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.

005:013
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.

005:014
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.

005:015
And the mean man shall be brought down, and the mighty man shall be humbled, and the eyes of the lofty shall be humbled:

005:016
But the LORD of hosts shall be exalted in judgment, and God that is holy shall be sanctified in righteousness.

005:017
Then shall the lambs feed after their manner, and the waste places of the fat ones shall strangers eat.

005:018
Woe unto them that draw iniquity with cords of vanity, and sin as it were with a cart rope:

005:019
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!

005:020
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!

005:021
Woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight!

005:022
Woe unto them that are mighty to drink wine, and men of strength to mingle strong drink:

005:023
Which justify the wicked for reward, and take away the righteousness of the righteous from him!

005:024
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.

005:025
Therefore is the anger of the LORD kindled against his people, and he hath stretched forth his hand against them, and hath smitten them: and the hills did tremble, and their carcases were torn in the midst of the streets. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.

005:026
And he will lift up an ensign to the nations from far, and will hiss unto them from the end of the earth: and, behold, they shall come with speed swiftly:

005:027
None shall be weary nor stumble among them; none shall slumber nor sleep; neither shall the girdle of their loins be loosed, nor the latchet of their shoes be broken:

005:028
Whose arrows are sharp, and all their bows bent, their horses' hoofs shall be counted like flint, and their wheels like a whirlwind:

005:029
Their roaring shall be like a lion, they shall roar like young lions: yea, they shall roar, and lay hold of the prey, and shall carry it away safe, and none shall deliver it.

005:030
And in that day they shall roar against them like the roaring of the sea: and if one look unto the land, behold darkness and sorrow, and the light is darkened in the heavens thereof.

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