1 GLT Let me sing, please, to my beloved a song of my beloved for his vineyard. My beloved had a vineyard on a hill of richness. BSB BSB: I will sing for my beloved a song of his vineyard: My beloved had a vineyard on a very fertile hill.
2 GLT And he dug it and cleared it and planted it{ with} choice vines, and he built a tower in the middle of it and also hewed a winepress in it. And he waited for{ it} to produce grapes, but it produced wild grapes. BSB BSB: He dug it up and cleared the stones and planted the finest vines. He built a watchtower in the middle and dug out a winepress as well. He waited for the vineyard to yield good grapes, but the fruit it produced was sour!
3 GLT And now, dweller of Jerusalem and man of Judah, judge, please, between me and between my vineyard. BSB BSB: “And now, O dwellers of Jerusalem and men of Judah, I exhort you to judge between Me and My vineyard.
4 GLT What more could have been done for my vineyard, that I have not done for it? I waited for{ it} to produce grapes, but why did it produce wild grapes? BSB BSB: What more could have been done for My vineyard than I have done for it? Why, when I expected sweet grapes, did it bring forth sour fruit?
5 GLT And now, please, I shall tell you what I shall do to my vineyard: I shall remove its hedge, and it will be consumed. I shall break down its wall, and it will be trampled down. BSB BSB: Now I will tell you what I am about to do to My vineyard: I will take away its hedge, and it will be consumed; I will tear down its wall, and it will be trampled.
6 GLT And I shall make it a desolation. It will not be pruned or hoed, and briers and thorns will spring up. And I shall command the clouds against raining rain on it. BSB BSB: I will make it a wasteland, neither pruned nor cultivated, and thorns and briers will grow up. I will command the clouds that rain shall not fall on it.”
7 GLT For the vineyard of Yahweh of hosts{ is} the house of Israel, and the man of Judah his pleasant plant. And he waited for justice, but behold, slaughter; for righteousness, but behold, screaming. BSB BSB: For the vineyard of the LORD of Hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah are the plant of His delight. He looked for justice, but saw bloodshed; for righteousness, but heard a cry of distress.
8 GLT Woe, those who join house to house, field to field they approach until{ there is} no room, and you are made to remain alone in the midst of the land! BSB BSB: Woe to you who add house to house and join field to field until no place is left and you live alone in the land.
9 GLT In my ears, Yahweh of hosts:‘Surely many houses will be empty— great and good ones without an inhabitant. BSB BSB: I heard the LORD of Hosts declare: “Surely many houses will become desolate, great mansions left unoccupied.
10 GLT For a ten- yoke vineyard will yield one bath, and a homer{ of} seed will yield an ephah.’ BSB BSB: For ten acres of vineyard will yield but a bath of wine, and a homer of seed only an ephah of grain.”
11 GLT Woe, those who rise up early in the morning to obtain strong drink, those who loiter into the night{ as} wine inflames them, BSB BSB: Woe to those who rise early in the morning in pursuit of strong drink, who linger into the evening, to be inflamed by wine.
12 GLT and whose feasts are harp and lyre, tambourine and flute and wine, but they do not regard the work of Yahweh, and they have not discerned the doings of his hands. BSB BSB: At their feasts are the lyre and harp, tambourines and flutes and wine. They disregard the actions of the LORD and fail to see the work of His hands.
13 GLT Therefore, my people are exiled for lack of understanding, and its honorable people are hungry, and its parched multitude is thirsty. BSB BSB: Therefore My people will go into exile for their lack of understanding; their dignitaries are starving and their masses are parched with thirst.
14 GLT Therefore, Sheol has enlarged its appetite and has opened its mouth without limit, and its elite and its crowd will descend, and its revelers and its happy. BSB BSB: Therefore Sheol enlarges its throat and opens wide its enormous jaws, and down go Zion’s nobles and masses, her revelers and carousers!
15 GLT And man will be humbled, and mankind will be brought down, and the eyes of the lofty will be brought down. BSB BSB: So mankind will be brought low, and each man humbled; the arrogant will lower their eyes.
16 GLT And Yahweh of hosts will be exalted in justice, and the Holy God will be holy by his righteousness. BSB BSB: But the LORD of Hosts will be exalted by His justice, and the holy God will show Himself holy in righteousness.
17 GLT And the sheep will feed as in their pasture, and goats will eat the ruins of the fatted. BSB BSB: Lambs will graze as in their own pastures, and strangers will feed in the ruins of the wealthy.
18 GLT Woe, those who pull in iniquity with cords of falsehood and like{ with} cart ropes, sin; BSB BSB: Woe to those who draw iniquity with cords of deceit and pull sin along with cart ropes,
19 GLT who say,‘Let him hurry, let him hasten his work so that we may see, and let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel draw near and let it come and let us know.’ BSB BSB: to those who say, “Let Him hurry and hasten His work so that we may see it! Let the plan of the Holy One of Israel come so that we may know it!”
20 GLT Woe, those who call evil good and good evil, who set darkness as light, and light as darkness, who set bitter as sweet, and sweet as bitter! BSB BSB: Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who turn darkness to light and light to darkness, who replace bitter with sweet and sweet with bitter.
21 GLT Woe to those wise in their{ own} eyes and before their{ own} faces, discerning. BSB BSB: Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes and clever in their own sight.
22 GLT Woe, mighty men of wine- drinking, and men of strength of liquor- mixing; BSB BSB: Woe to those who are heroes in drinking wine and champions in mixing strong drink,
23 GLT who declare righteous the wicked for a bribe and take away from the righteous his rights! BSB BSB: who acquit the guilty for a bribe and deprive the innocent of justice.
24 GLT Therefore, as the tongue of fire devours stubble and the dry grass goes down in flame, so their root will rot, and their blossom will rise like dust. For they have rejected the law of Yahweh of hosts, and they have despised the word of the Holy One of Israel. BSB BSB: Therefore, as a tongue of fire consumes the straw, and as dry grass shrivels in the flame, so their roots will decay and their blossoms will blow away like dust; for they have rejected the instruction of the LORD of Hosts and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.
25 GLT Therefore, the nose of Yahweh burns against his people, and he has reached out his hand against them and has struck them, and the mountains tremble, and their corpses become like garbage in the streets. In all these things, his nose does not turn away, and still his hand is stretched out. BSB BSB: Therefore the anger of the LORD burns against His people; His hand is raised against them to strike them down. The mountains quake, and the corpses lie like refuse in the streets. Despite all this, His anger is not turned away; His hand is still upraised.
26 GLT And he will lift up a signal for faraway nations and will whistle for him from the end of the earth. And behold, quick, swift it will come. BSB BSB: He lifts a banner for the distant nations and whistles for those at the ends of the earth. Behold—how speedily and swiftly they come!
27 GLT None tires and none stumbles among it; he does not slumber and does not sleep. And the belts of their loins are not loose, and the thongs of their sandals are not broken. BSB BSB: None of them grows weary or stumbles; no one slumbers or sleeps. No belt is loose and no sandal strap is broken.
28 GLT For its arrows{ are} sharp and all its bows bent; the hooves of its horses seem like flint, and its chariot wheels like storms. BSB BSB: Their arrows are sharpened, and all their bows are strung. The hooves of their horses are like flint; their chariot wheels are like a whirlwind.
29 GLT Its roaring like a lion, and it will roar like young lions. And it will growl and seize the prey and drag{ it} away, and there will be no rescuer. BSB BSB: Their roaring is like that of a lion; they roar like young lions. They growl and seize their prey; they carry it away, and no one can rescue it.
30 GLT And it will roar against it on that day as the roar of the sea. And{ one} looks over the land, and behold, darkness, suffering! And the light will be darkened by the clouds. BSB BSB: In that day they will roar over it, like the roaring of the sea. If one looks over the land, he will see darkness and distress; even the light will be obscured by clouds.
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