The World English Bible (WEB): Isaiah — John Shaqi
The World English Bible (WEB): IsaiahAnonymous
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The World English Bible (WEB): Isaiah
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of Zion, and shall have purged the blood of Jerusalem from its midst,
by the spirit of justice, and by the spirit of burning.
004:005 Yahweh will create over the whole habitation of Mount Zion,
and over her assemblies, a cloud and smoke by day,
and the shining of a flaming fire by night; for over all
the glory will be a canopy.
004:006 There will be a pavilion for a shade in the daytime from the heat,
and for a refuge and for a shelter from storm and from rain.
005:001 Let me sing for my well beloved a song of my beloved about
his vineyard. My beloved had a vineyard on a very fruitful hill.
005:002 He dug it up, gathered out its stones, planted it with
the choicest vine, built a tower in its midst, and also cut
out a winepress therein. He looked for it to yield grapes,
but it yielded wild grapes.
005:003 "Now, inhabitants of Jerusalem and men of Judah, please judge
between me and my vineyard.
005:004 What could have been done more to my vineyard, that I have
not done in it? Why, when I looked for it to yield grapes,
did it yield wild grapes?
005:005 Now I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard.
I will take away its hedge, and it will be eaten up.
I will break down its wall of it, and it will be trampled down.
005:006 I will lay it a wasteland. It won't be pruned nor hoed,
but it will grow briers and thorns. I will also command
the clouds that they rain no rain on it."
005:007 For the vineyard of Yahweh of Armies is the house of Israel,
and the men of Judah his pleasant plant: and he looked
for justice, but, behold, oppression; for righteousness,
but, behold, a cry of distress.
005:008 Woe to those who join house to house, who lay field to field,
until there is no room, and you are made to dwell alone
in the midst of the land!
005:009 In my ears, Yahweh of Armies says: "Surely many houses will
be desolate, even great and beautiful, unoccupied.
005:010 For ten acres{literally, ten yokes, or the amount of land
that ten yokes of oxen can plow in one day, which is about 10
acres or 4 hectares.} of vineyard shall yield one bath,{1
bath is about 22 litres, 5.8 U. S. gallons, or 4.8 imperial
gallons} and a homer{1 homer is about 220 litres or 6 bushels}
of seed shall yield an ephah.{1 ephah is about 22 litres or 0.6
bushels or about 2 pecks)--only one tenth of what was sown.}"
005:011 Woe to those who rise up early in the morning, that they
may follow strong drink; who stay late into the night,
until wine inflames them!
005:012 The harp, lyre, tambourine, and flute, with wine, are at
their feasts; but they don't regard the work of Yahweh,
neither have they considered the operation of his hands.
005:013 Therefore my people go into captivity for lack of knowledge.
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