Isaiah 5:7-18
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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, but behold oppression; for righteousness, but behold a cry.
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8 Woe unto them that join house to house, that lay field to field, till there 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, even great and fair, without inhabitant.
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10 Yea, ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and the seed of an homer shall yield an ephah.
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11 Woe unto them that rise up early in the morning, that they may follow strong drink; that continue until night, till 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 honourable 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 Woe unto them that draw iniquity with cords of vanity, and sin as it were with a cart rope: