Isaiah 5:12-24
-
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.
-
13 Therefore my people are gone into captivity, because they have no knowledge: and their honourable men are famished, and their multitude dried up with thirst.
-
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.
-
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:
-
16 But the LORD of hosts shall be exalted in judgment, and God that is holy shall be sanctified in righteousness.
-
17 Then shall the lambs feed after their manner, and the waste places of the fat ones shall strangers eat.
-
18 Woe unto them that draw iniquity with cords of vanity, and sin as it were with a cart rope:
-
19 That say, Let him make speed, and 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!
-
20 Woe 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!
-
21 Woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight!
-
22 Woe unto them that are mighty to drink wine, and men of strength to mingle strong drink:
-
23 Which justify the wicked for reward, and take away the righteousness of the righteous from him!
-
24 Therefore as the fire devoureth the stubble, and the flame consumeth the chaff, so their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom 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.