Isaiah 5

1 Now let me sing for my Beloved, A song of my Beloved as to His vineyard: My beloved has a vineyard in a fruitful hill,

to sing please to/for beloved my song beloved: love my to/for vineyard his vineyard to be to/for beloved my in/on/with horn son: type of oil

2 And He fences it, and casts out its stones, And plants it [with] a choice vine, And builds a tower in its midst, And has also hewn out a winepress in it, And He waits for the yielding of grapes, And it yields bad ones!

and to dig about him and to stone him and to plant him vine and to build tower in/on/with midst his and also wine to hew in/on/with him and to await to/for to make: do grape and to make: do sour grapes

3 And now, O inhabitant of Jerusalem and man of Judah, Please judge between Me and My vineyard.

and now to dwell Jerusalem and man: anyone Judah to judge please between me and between vineyard my

4 What [is there] to do still to My vineyard, That I have not done in it? For what reason have I waited for the yielding of grapes, And it yields [only] bad ones?

what? to/for to make: do still to/for vineyard my and not to make: do in/on/with him why? to await to/for to make grape and to make sour grapes

5 And now, pray, let Me cause you to know, That which I am doing to My vineyard, To turn its hedge aside, And it has been for consumption, To break down its wall, And it has been for a treading-place.

and now to know please [obj] you [obj] which I to make: do to/for vineyard my to turn aside: remove hedge his and to be to/for to burn: destroy to break through wall his and to be to/for trampling

6 And I make it a waste, It is not pruned, nor arranged, And brier and thorn have gone up, And I lay a charge on the thick clouds, From raining on it rain.

and to set: make him waste not to prune and not to hoe and to ascend: rise thorn and thornbush and upon [the] cloud to command from to rain upon him rain

7 Because the vineyard of YHWH of Hosts [Is] the house of Israel, And the man of Judah His pleasant plant, And He waits for judgment, and behold, oppression, For righteousness, and behold, a cry.

for vineyard LORD Hosts house: household Israel and man: anyone Judah plantation delight his and to await to/for justice and behold bloodshed to/for righteousness and behold cry

8 Woe [to] those joining house to house, They bring field near to field, Until there is no place, And you have been settled by yourselves In the midst of the land!

woe! to touch house: home in/on/with house: home land: country in/on/with land: country to present: come till end place and to dwell to/for alone you in/on/with entrails: among [the] land: country/planet

9 Do many houses not become a desolation by the weapons of YHWH of Hosts? Great and good without inhabitant!

in/on/with ear: hearing my LORD Hosts if: surely yes not house: home many to/for horror: destroyed to be great: large and pleasant from nothing to dwell

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

for ten pair vineyard to make: do bath one and seed homer to make: do ephah

11 Woe [to] those rising early in the morning, They pursue strong drink! Lingering in twilight, wine inflames them!

woe! to rise in/on/with morning strong drink to pursue to delay in/on/with twilight wine to burn/pursue them

12 And harp, and stringed instrument, tambourine, and pipe, And wine, have been their banquets, And they do not behold the work of YHWH, Indeed, they have not seen the work of His hands.

and to be lyre and harp tambourine and flute and wine feast their and [obj] work LORD not to look and deed: work hand his not to see: see

13 Therefore my people removed without knowledge, And its honorable ones are famished, And its multitude dried up of thirst.

to/for so to reveal: remove people my from without knowledge and glory his man famine and crowd his parched thirst

14 Therefore Sheol has enlarged herself, And has opened her mouth without limit. And its honor has gone down, and its multitude, And its noise, and its exulting one—into her. (Sheol h7585)

to/for so to enlarge hell: Sheol soul: appetite her and to open lip her to/for without statute: allotment and to go down glory her and crowd her and roar her and exultant in/on/with her (Sheol h7585)

15 And the low is bowed down, and the high humbled, And the eyes of the haughty become low,

and to bow man and to abase man: anyone and eye high to abase

16 And YHWH of Hosts is high in judgment, And the Holy God sanctified in righteousness,

and to exult LORD Hosts in/on/with justice and [the] God [the] holy to consecrate: consecate in/on/with righteousness

17 And lambs have fed according to their leading, And sojourners consume wastelands of the fat ones.

and to pasture lamb like/as pasture their and desolation fatling to sojourn to eat

18 Woe [to] those drawing out iniquity with cords of vanity, And as [with] thick ropes of the cart—sin.

woe! to draw [the] iniquity: crime in/on/with cord [the] vanity: false and like/as cord [the] cart sin

19 Who are saying, “Let Him hurry, Let Him hurry His work, that we may see, And let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel Draw near and come, and we know.”

[the] to say to hasten to hasten [emph?] deed: work his because to see: see and to present: come and to come (in): come [emph?] counsel holy Israel and to know

20 Woe [to] those saying to evil “good,” and to good “evil,” Putting darkness for light, and light for darkness, Putting bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter.

woe! [the] to say to/for bad: evil good and to/for good bad: evil to set: put darkness to/for light and light to/for darkness to set: put bitter to/for sweet and sweet to/for bitter

21 Woe [to] the wise in their own eyes, And—before their own faces—intelligent!

woe! wise in/on/with eye their and before face: before their to understand

22 Woe [to] the mighty to drink wine, And men of strength to mingle strong drink.

woe! mighty man to/for to drink wine and human strength to/for to mix strong drink

23 Declaring righteous the wicked for a bribe, And the righteousness of the righteous They turn aside from him.

to justify wicked consequence bribe and righteousness righteous to turn aside: remove from him

24 Therefore, as a tongue of fire devours stubble, And flaming hay falls, Their root is as muck, And their flower goes up as dust. Because they have rejected the Law of YHWH of Hosts, And despised the saying of the Holy One of Israel.

to/for so like/as to eat stubble tongue fire and chaff flame to slacken root their like/as decay to be and flower their like/as dust to ascend: rise for to reject [obj] instruction LORD Hosts and [obj] word holy Israel to spurn

25 Therefore the anger of YHWH has burned among His people, And He stretches out His hand against it, And strikes it, and the mountains tremble, And their carcass is as filth in the midst of the out-places. With all this His anger did not turn back, And still His hand is stretched out!

upon so to be incensed face: anger LORD in/on/with people his and to stretch hand his upon him and to smite him and to tremble [the] mountain: mount and to be carcass their like/as offal in/on/with entrails: among outside in/on/with all this not to return: turn back face: anger his and still hand his to stretch

26 And He lifted up an ensign to the far-off nations, And hissed to it from the end of the earth, And behold, with haste, it comes swiftly.

and to lift: raise ensign to/for nation from distant and to whistle to/for him from end [the] land: country/planet and behold haste swift to come (in): come

27 There is none weary, nor stumbling in it, It does not slumber, nor sleep, Nor has the girdle of its loins been opened, Nor the strap of its sandals drawn away.

nothing faint and nothing to stumble in/on/with him not to slumber and not to sleep and not to open girdle loin his and not to tear thong sandal his

28 Whose arrows [are] sharp, and all its bows bent, Hooves of its horses have been reckoned as flint, And its wheels as a windstorm!

which arrow his to sharpen and all bow his to tread hoof horse his like/as hard to devise: think and wheel his like/as whirlwind

29 Its roaring [is] like a lioness, It roars like young lions, And it howls, and seizes prey, And carries away safely, and there is none delivering.

roaring to/for him like/as lion (to roar *Q(K)*) like/as lion and to groan and to grasp prey and to escape and nothing to rescue

30 And it howls against it in that day as the howling of a sea, And it has looked attentively to the land, And behold, darkness—distress, And light has been darkened by its abundance!

and to groan upon him in/on/with day [the] he/she/it like/as groaning sea and to look to/for land: country/planet and behold darkness distress and light to darken in/on/with cloud her