< Isaiah 5 >

1 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.
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 dug it up, gathered out its stones, planted it with the choicest vine, built a tower in the middle of it, and also cut out a wine press in it. He looked for it to yield grapes, but it yielded wild 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 “Now, inhabitants of Jerusalem and men 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 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?
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 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, and it will be trampled 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 I will lay it a wasteland. It won’t be pruned or hoed, but it will grow briers and thorns. I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain on 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 For the vineyard of Yahweh of Armies is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasant plant. He looked for justice, but behold, oppression, for righteousness, but behold, a cry of distress.
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 who join house to house, who lay field to field, until there is no room, and you are made to dwell alone in the middle 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 In my ears, Yahweh of Armies says: “Surely many houses will be desolate, even great and beautiful, unoccupied.
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 shall yield one bath, and a homer of seed shall yield an ephah.”
for ten pair vineyard to make: do bath one and seed homer to make: do ephah
11 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!
woe! to rise in/on/with morning strong drink to pursue to delay in/on/with twilight wine to burn/pursue them
12 The harp, lyre, tambourine, and flute, with wine, are at their feasts; but they don’t respect the work of Yahweh, neither have they considered 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 my people go into captivity for lack of knowledge. Their honorable men are famished, and their multitudes are 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 Sheol has enlarged its desire, and opened its mouth without measure; and their glory, their multitude, their pomp, and he who rejoices among them, descend into it. (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 So man is brought low, mankind is humbled, and the eyes of the arrogant ones are humbled;
and to bow man and to abase man: anyone and eye high to abase
16 but Yahweh of Armies is exalted in justice, and God the Holy One is 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 Then the lambs will graze as in their pasture, and strangers will eat the ruins of the rich.
and to pasture lamb like/as pasture their and desolation fatling to sojourn to eat
18 Woe to those who draw iniquity with cords of falsehood, and wickedness as with cart rope,
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 haste, let him hasten his work, that we may see it; let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel draw near and come, 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 those who call evil good, and good evil; who put darkness for light, and light for darkness; who 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 those who are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight!
woe! wise in/on/with eye their and before face: before their to understand
22 Woe to those who are mighty to drink wine, and champions at mixing strong drink;
woe! mighty man to/for to drink wine and human strength to/for to mix strong drink
23 who acquit the guilty for a bribe, but deny justice for the innocent!
to justify wicked consequence bribe and righteousness righteous to turn aside: remove from him
24 Therefore as the tongue of fire devours the stubble, and as the dry grass sinks down in the flame, so their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust, because they have rejected the law of Yahweh of Armies, and despised 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 Yahweh’s anger burns against his people, and he has stretched out his hand against them and has struck them. The mountains tremble, and their dead bodies are as refuse in the middle of the streets. For all this, his anger is not turned away, but his hand is still 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 He will lift up a banner to the nations from far away, and he will whistle for them from the end of the earth. Behold, they will come speedily and 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 No one shall be weary nor stumble among them; no one shall slumber nor sleep, neither shall the belt of their waist be untied, nor the strap of their sandals be 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 whose arrows are sharp, and all their bows bent. Their horses’ hoofs will be 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 will be like a lioness. They will roar like young lions. Yes, they shall roar, and seize their prey and carry it off, and there will be no one to deliver.
roaring to/for him like/as lion (to roar *QK) like/as lion and to groan and to grasp prey and to escape and nothing to rescue
30 They will roar against them in that day like the roaring of the sea. If one looks to the land, behold, darkness and distress. The light is darkened in 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

< Isaiah 5 >