Isaiah 5
1 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
[Now] I will sing a song about my dear friend, and about his vineyard. The vineyard was on a very fertile hillside.
2 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
My friend plowed the ground and cleared away the stones. Then he planted very good grapevines on that ground. In the middle of the vineyard, he built a watchtower, and he dug a (winepress/pit for squeezing the grapes). Then he waited [each year] to harvest some good grapes, but the vines produced [only] sour grapes.
3 and now to dwell Jerusalem and man: anyone Judah to judge please between me and between vineyard my
Now [this is what Yahweh says]: “You people of Jerusalem and [other places in] Judah, I [am like the friend, and you are like] my vineyard; [so] you judge which of us [has done what is right].
4 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
What more could I have done for you than what I have already done? I expected you to be doing good deeds [MET], so it is disgusting that [RHQ] you were [doing only evil things] like the vineyard that produced only sour grapes!
5 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
[So], I will now tell you what I will do to [Judah, the place that is like] my vineyard. I will cut down the hedges, and they will be destroyed. I will tear down the walls [of the cities] and allow [wild animals] to trample the land.
6 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
I will cause it to become a wasteland where the vines are not pruned and the ground is not hoed. It will be a place where briers and thorns [DOU] grow. And I will command that no rain will fall on it.”
7 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
The nation of Israel is [like] [MET] the vineyard of the Commander of the armies of angels. The people of Judah are [like] the garden that was pleasing to him. He expected you to be doing what is just/fair, but instead, [what he saw was people] murdering [MTY] others. [He expected that you would be doing] righteous deeds, but instead, he heard cries from people who were being [attacked] violently.
8 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
Terrible things will happen to you who continually [illegally] acquire houses and fields. You force one family after another to leave their homes until you are the only ones [HYP] [still] living in the land.
9 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
[But] I heard the Commander of the armies of angels solemnly declare this: “[Some day], many of those huge houses will be empty/deserted; no one will be living in those beautiful mansions.
10 for ten pair vineyard to make: do bath one and seed homer to make: do ephah
The vines on ten acres of land will not produce enough grapes to make (six gallons/22 liters) [of juice/wine], and ten baskets of seed will produce only one basket [of grain].”
11 woe! to rise in/on/with morning strong drink to pursue to delay in/on/with twilight wine to burn/pursue them
Terrible things will happen to those who get up early [each] morning to begin drinking alcoholic drinks, and who stay awake until late at night [drinking a lot of wine] until they are completely drunk.
12 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
They have [big parties and provide lots of] wine. At their parties, there are [people playing] harps and lyres and tambourines and flutes, but they never think about what Yahweh does or appreciate what he has created.
13 to/for so to reveal: remove people my from without knowledge and glory his man famine and crowd his parched thirst
So, my people will be (exiled/taken to other countries) [far away] because they do not know [about me]. Those who are [now very important and] honored will starve, and the other people will die from thirst.
14 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)
[It is as though] [PRS] the place where the dead people are is eagerly looking for more Israeli people, opening its mouth to swallow them, and a huge number of people will be thrown into that place, including their leaders as well as a noisy crowd of people who enjoy living in Jerusalem. (Sheol h7585)
15 and to bow man and to abase man: anyone and eye high to abase
[Yahweh] will get rid of a huge number of people; and he will humble [many more] people who [now] are proud/arrogant.
16 and to exult LORD Hosts in/on/with justice and [the] God [the] holy to consecrate: consecate in/on/with righteousness
But the Commander of the armies of angels will be exalted/praised because of his acting justly. God will show that he is holy by doing righteous/just deeds.
17 and to pasture lamb like/as pasture their and desolation fatling to sojourn to eat
Then lambs and fat sheep will [be able to] find good grass to eat, [even] among the ruins [of the houses of rich people].
18 woe! to draw [the] iniquity: crime in/on/with cord [the] vanity: false and like/as cord [the] cart sin
Some people constantly tell lies, and [it is as though] they are dragging behind them the wrong things that they have done. Terrible things will happen to them!
19 [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
They [make fun of God and] say [to him, ] “Go ahead, do something [to punish us]! We want to see what you will do. You, the Holy One of Israel, should do what you are planning to do, because we want to know what it is.”
20 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
Terrible things will happen to those who say that evil is good, and that good is evil, that darkness is light and that light is darkness, that what is bitter is sweet and what is sweet is bitter.
21 woe! wise in/on/with eye their and before face: before their to understand
Terrible things will happen to those who think that they are wise and that they (are very clever/know everything).
22 woe! mighty man to/for to drink wine and human strength to/for to mix strong drink
Terrible things will happen to those who [think that] [IRO] they are great/heroes because they are able to drink [lots of] wine, and boast about being able to mix good alcoholic drinks.
23 to justify wicked consequence bribe and righteousness righteous to turn aside: remove from him
If people offer them bribes in order that they will enable wicked people not to be punished, they accept those bribes, and they cause people who are innocent to be punished.
24 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
Therefore, just like [SIM] fires burn up stubble and dry grass shrivels up and quickly burns in flames, [it will be as though] those people have roots that will rot and have flowers that will wither. [That will happen] because they rejected the laws of the Commander of the armies of angels; they have despised the messages of the Holy One of Israel.
25 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
That is why Yahweh is [extremely] angry [with his people]; [it is as though] his hand is raised [and he is ready to smash them]. [When he does that], the mountains will shake, and the corpses of people will be scattered in the streets like [SIM] manure. But even when that happens, Yahweh will still be very angry; he will be ready to punish his people [MET] again.
26 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
Yahweh will send a signal to summon [armies of] nations far away; [it is as though] he will whistle [to summon those soldiers who are] in very remote places on the earth. They will come very swiftly [DOU] [to Jerusalem].
27 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
They will not get tired or stumble. They will not [stop to] rest or to sleep. None of their belts will be loose, and none of them will have sandals with broken straps, [so they will all be ready to fight in battles].
28 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
Their arrows will be sharp, and their bows will be ready [to shoot those arrows in a battle]. [Because their horses pull the chariots fast], sparks will shoot out from their hooves, and the wheels of the chariots will spin like a whirlwind.
29 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
They will roar like [very strong] lions [DOU] that growl and [then] pounce on the animals they want to kill and carry them off, and no one is able to rescue them.
30 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
[Similarly, your enemies] will roar when they see the people they are about to kill, like [SIM] the sea roars. [On that day], if someone looks across the land, he will see [only people who are in] darkness and distressed; [it will be as though] even the sunlight is hidden by dark clouds.
