Isaiah 5
1 Let me sing now a song respecting my friend, A song respecting my friend touching his vineyard. My friend had a vineyard On a very 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 He digged it, and cleared it of stones, And planted it with the choicest vine, And built a tower in the midst of it, And hewed out a wine-press therein; Then he looked that it should bring forth its grapes, But it brought forth sour grapes.
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 inhabitants of Jerusalem, and men of Judah, Judge ye 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 could have been done for my vineyard That I have not done for it? Why, then, when I looked that it should bring forth its grapes, Brought it forth sour grapes?
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 But come now, and I will tell you What I mean to do with my vineyard. I will take away its hedge, and it shall be eaten up; I will break down its wall, and it shall be trodden down!
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 will make it a waste; It shall not be pruned, nor digged, But shall grow up into thorns and briers; I will also command the clouds That they shed no rain upon it.
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 The vineyard of Jehovah of hosts is the house of Israel, And the men of Judah the plant of his delight. He looked for justice, and behold, bloodshed! For righteousness, and behold, outcry!
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 them that join house to house, That add field to field, Till there is no place left, And they dwell alone in 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 To mine ear hath Jehovah of hosts revealed it: Surely many houses shall become a desolation, The great and the fair ones, without an 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 Yea, ten acres of vineyard shall yield a single bath of wine, And a homer of seed shall produce but an ephah.
for ten pair vineyard to make: do bath one and seed homer to make: do ephah
11 Woe to them that rise early in the morning to follow strong drink, —Who sit late in the night that wine may inflame 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 the lyre and the harp, the tabret and the pipe, and wine, are at their feasts, But they regard not the work of Jehovah, Nor attend to the operation 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 shall my people be led captive, when they think not of it; Their honorable men shall be famished with hunger, And their rich men parched with thirst.
to/for so to reveal: remove people my from without knowledge and glory his man famine and crowd his parched thirst
14 Therefore doth the under-world enlarge its greedy throat, And stretch open its mouth without measure, And down go her nobility and her wealth, Her busy throng, and all that was joyful within 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 The mean man shall be bowed down, And the great man shall be brought low, And the eyes of the haughty shall be humbled;
and to bow man and to abase man: anyone and eye high to abase
16 Jehovah of hosts shall be exalted through judgment; Yea, God, the Holy One, shall be sanctified through righteousness.
and to exult LORD Hosts in/on/with justice and [the] God [the] holy to consecrate: consecate in/on/with righteousness
17 Then shall the lambs feed, as in their own pasture, And the deserted fields of the rich shall strangers consume.
and to pasture lamb like/as pasture their and desolation fatling to sojourn to eat
18 Woe to them that draw calamity with cords of wickedness, And punishment as with wagon-traces, —
woe! to draw [the] iniquity: crime in/on/with cord [the] vanity: false and like/as cord [the] cart sin
19 Who say, Let him make speed, let him hasten his work that we may see it! Let the purpose of the Holy One of Israel draw near and be fulfilled, that we may know it!
[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 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!
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 them that are wise in their own eyes, And prudent in their own conceit!
woe! wise in/on/with eye their and before face: before their to understand
22 Woe to them that are valiant to drink wine, And men of might to mingle strong drink!
woe! mighty man to/for to drink wine and human strength to/for to mix strong drink
23 That clear the guilty for a reward, And take away from the righteous his right!
to justify wicked consequence bribe and righteousness righteous to turn aside: remove from him
24 Therefore, as fire devours stubble, And as the withered grass sinks into the flame, So their root shall become rottenness, And their blossom shall fly up like dust. For they have despised the law of Jehovah of hosts, And contemned the word 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 is the anger of Jehovah kindled against his people; He stretcheth forth his hand against them, and smiteth them, so that the mountains tremble, And their carcasses are as dung in the midst of the streets; For all this his anger is not turned away, But his hand is stretched out still.
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 He lifteth up a banner for the nations afar off, He whistleth for them from the ends of the earth, And behold, they haste, and come 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 None among them is weary, and none stumbleth; None slumbereth nor sleepeth; The girdle of their loins is not loosed, Nor the latchet of their shoes broken.
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 Their arrows are sharp, And all their bows bent; The hoofs of their horses are like flint, And their wheels like a whirlwind.
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 Their roaring is like the roaring of the lion; They roar like young lions; They roar, and seize the prey; They bear it away, and none can rescue it.
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 Yea, in that day shall they roar against them like the roaring of the sea; And if one look to the land, behold darkness and sorrow, And the light is darkened by its clouds.
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
