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Chapter 15
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This chapter is from Isaiah 5. Considering how hard it
would be to transcribe an entire chapter from Isaiah onto metal plates.
Wouldn’t it make more sense for the author to reference the writings from
Isaiah and perhaps provide some commentary?
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1 And then will I sing to my well-beloved a song of my
beloved, touching his vineyard. My well-beloved hath a vineyard in a very
fruitful hill.
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2 And he fenced it, and gathered out the stones thereof,
and planted it with the choicest vine, and built a tower in the midst of it,
and also made a wine-press therein; and he looked that it should bring forth
grapes, and it brought forth wild grapes.
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3 And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem, and men of Judah,
judge, I pray you, betwixt me and my vineyard.
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4 What could have been done more to my vineyard that I
have not done in it? Wherefore, when I looked that it should bring forth
grapes it brought forth wild grapes.
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5 And now go to; I will tell you what I will do to my
vineyard—I will take away the hedge thereof, and it shall be eaten up; and I
will break down the wall thereof, and it shall be trodden down;
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6 And I will lay it waste; it shall not be pruned nor
digged; but there shall come up briers and thorns; I will also command the
clouds that they rain no rain upon it.
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7 For the vineyard of the Lord of Hosts is the house of
Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasant plant; and he looked for judgment,
and behold, oppression; for righteousness, but behold, a cry.
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8 Wo unto them that join house to house, till there can be
no place, that they may be placed alone in the midst of the earth!
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9 In mine ears, said the Lord of Hosts, of a truth many
houses shall be desolate, and great and fair cities without inhabitant.
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10 Yea, ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and
the seed of a homer shall yield an ephah.
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11 Wo unto them that rise up early in the morning, that
they may follow strong drink, that continue until night, and wine inflame
them!
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12 And the harp, and the viol, the tabret, and pipe, and
wine are in their feasts; but they regard not the work of the Lord, neither
consider the operation of his hands.
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13 Therefore, my people are gone into captivity, because
they have no knowledge; and their honorable men are famished, and their
multitude dried up with thirst.
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14 Therefore, hell hath enlarged herself, and opened her
mouth without measure; and their glory, and their multitude, and their pomp,
and he that rejoiceth, shall descend into it.
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15 And the mean man shall be brought down, and the mighty
man shall be humbled, and the eyes of the lofty shall be humbled.
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16 But the Lord of Hosts shall be exalted in judgment, and
God that is holy shall be sanctified in righteousness.
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17 Then shall the lambs feed after their manner, and the
waste places of the fat ones shall strangers eat.
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18 Wo unto them that draw iniquity with cords of vanity,
and sin as it were with a cart rope;
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19 That say: Let him make speed, hasten his work, that we
may see it; and let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel draw nigh and come,
that we may know it.
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20 Wo unto 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!
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21 Wo unto the wise in their own eyes and prudent in their
own sight!
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22 Wo unto the mighty to drink wine, and men of strength
to mingle strong drink;
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23 Who justify the wicked for reward, and take away the
righteousness of the righteous from him!
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24 Therefore, as the fire devoureth the stubble, and the
flame consumeth the chaff, their root shall be rottenness, and their blossoms
shall go up as dust; because they have cast away the law of the Lord of
Hosts, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.
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25 Therefore, is the anger of the Lord kindled against his
people, and he hath stretched forth his hand against them, and hath smitten
them; and the hills did tremble, and their carcasses were torn in the midst
of the streets. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is
stretched out still.
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26 And he will lift up an ensign to the nations from far,
and will hiss unto them from the end of the earth; and behold, they shall
come with speed swiftly; none shall be weary nor stumble among them.
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27 None shall slumber nor sleep; neither shall the girdle
of their loins be loosed, nor the latchet of their shoes be broken;
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28 Whose arrows shall be sharp, and all their bows bent,
and their horses’ hoofs shall be counted like flint, and their wheels like a
whirlwind, their roaring like a lion.
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29 They shall roar like young lions; yea, they shall roar,
and lay hold of the prey, and shall carry away safe, and none shall deliver.
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30 And in that day they shall roar against them like the
roaring of the sea; and if they look unto the land, behold, darkness and
sorrow, and the light is darkened in the heavens thereof.
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