3  For behold, the ^sLord God of hosts

is taking away from Jerusalem and from Judah

support and supply,¹

all ^tsupport of bread,

and all support of water;

2  ^uthe mighty man and the soldier,

the judge and the prophet,

the diviner and the elder,

3  the captain of fifty

and the man of rank,

the counselor and the skillful magician

and the expert in charms.

4  ^vAnd I will make boys their princes,

and infants² shall rule over them.

5  ^wAnd the people will oppress one another,

every one his fellow

and every one his neighbor;

the youth will be insolent to the elder,

and the despised to the honorable.

6  For ^xa man will take hold of his brother

in the house of his father, saying:

“You have a cloak;

you shall be our leader,

and this heap of ruins

shall be under your rule”;

7  in that day he will speak out, saying:

“I will not be a ^yhealer;³

in my house there is neither bread nor cloak;

you shall not make me

leader of the people.”

8  For Jerusalem has stumbled,

and Judah has fallen,

because their ^zspeech and their deeds are against the Lord,

^adefying his glorious presence.⁴

9  For the look on their faces bears witness against them;

they proclaim their sin ^blike Sodom;

they do not hide it.

Woe to them!

^cFor they have brought evil on themselves.

10  ^dTell the righteous that it shall be well with them,

^efor they shall eat the fruit of their deeds.

11  ^fWoe to the wicked! It shall be ill with him,

for what his hands have dealt out shall be done to him.

12  My people—^ginfants are their oppressors,

and women rule over them.

O my people, ^hyour guides mislead you

and they have swallowed up⁵ the course of your paths.

13  The Lord ⁱhas taken his place to contend;

he stands to judge peoples.

14  The Lord will enter into judgment

with the ^jelders and princes of his people:

“It is you who ^khave devoured⁶ the vineyard,

^lthe spoil of the poor is in your houses.

15  What do you mean by ^mcrushing my people,

by grinding the face of the poor?”

declares the Lord God of hosts.

16  The Lord said:

ⁿBecause ^othe daughters of Zion are haughty

and walk with outstretched necks,

glancing wantonly with their eyes,

mincing along as they go,

^ptinkling with their feet,

17  therefore the Lord ^qwill strike with a scab

the heads of ^othe daughters of Zion,

and the Lord will lay bare their secret parts.

24  Instead of ^xperfume there will be rottenness;

and instead of a ^ybelt, a rope;

and instead of ^zwell-set hair, ^abaldness;

and instead of a rich robe, a ^bskirt of sackcloth;

and ^cbranding instead of beauty.

25  Your men shall fall by the sword

and your mighty men in battle.

26  And ^dher gates shall lament and mourn;

empty, she shall ^esit on the ground.

5  Let me sing for my beloved

my love song concerning his vineyard:

My beloved had ^va vineyard

on a very fertile hill.

2  He dug it and cleared it of stones,

and planted it with ^wchoice vines;

he built a watchtower in the midst of it,

and hewed out a wine vat in it;

and ^xhe looked for it to yield grapes,

but it yielded wild grapes.

3  And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem

and men of Judah,

judge between me and my vineyard.

4  ^yWhat more was there to do for my vineyard,

that I have not done in it?

^xWhen I looked for it to yield grapes,

why did it yield wild grapes?

5  And now I will tell you

what I will do to my vineyard.

I will remove ^zits hedge,

and it shall be devoured;¹

^aI will break down its wall,

and it shall be trampled down.

6  I will make it a waste;

it shall not be pruned or hoed,

and ^bbriers and thorns shall grow up;

^cI will also command the clouds

that they rain no rain upon it.

7  ^dFor the vineyard of the Lord of hosts

is the house of Israel,

and the men of Judah

are his pleasant planting;

and he looked for justice,

but behold, bloodshed;²

for righteousness,

but behold, an outcry!³

8  Woe to those who ^ejoin house to house,

who add field to field,

until there is no more room,

and you are made to dwell alone

in the midst of the land.

9  The Lord of hosts has sworn in my hearing:

^f“Surely many houses shall be desolate,

large and beautiful houses, without inhabitant.

10  ^gFor ten acres⁴ of vineyard shall yield but one bath,

and a ^hhomer of seed shall yield but an ephah.”⁵

11  Woe to those who ⁱrise early in the morning,

that they may run after strong drink,

who tarry late into the evening

as wine inflames them!

12  ^jThey have lyre and harp,

tambourine and flute and wine at their feasts,

^kbut they do not regard the deeds of the Lord,

or see the work of his hands.

13  Therefore my people go into exile

^lfor lack of knowledge;⁶

their ^mhonored men go hungry,⁷

and their multitude is parched with thirst.

14  Therefore Sheol has ⁿenlarged its appetite

and opened ^oits mouth beyond measure,

and the nobility of Jerusalem⁸ and her multitude will go down,

her revelers and he who ^pexults in her.

15  ^qMan is humbled, and each one is brought low,

and the eyes of the haughty⁹ are brought low.

16  ^rBut the Lord of hosts is exalted¹⁰ in justice,

and the Holy God shows himself holy in righteousness.

17  Then shall the lambs graze ^sas in their pasture,

and ^tnomads shall eat among the ruins of the rich.

18  Woe to those who draw iniquity with ^ucords of falsehood,

who draw sin as with cart ropes,

19  who say: ^v“Let him be quick,

let him speed his work

that we may see it;

let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel draw near,

and let it come, that we may know it!”

20  Woe to ^wthose who call evil good

and good evil,

^xwho put darkness for light

and light for darkness,

who put bitter for sweet

and sweet for bitter!

21  Woe to those who are ^ywise in their own eyes,

and shrewd in their own sight!

22  Woe to those who are ^zheroes at drinking wine,

and valiant men in mixing strong drink,

23  who ^aacquit the guilty for a bribe,

and deprive the innocent of his right!

24  Therefore, ^bas the tongue of fire devours the stubble,

and as dry grass sinks down in the flame,

so ^ctheir root will be ^das rottenness,

and their blossom go up like dust;

for they have ^erejected the law of the Lord of hosts,

and have ^fdespised the word of the Holy One of Israel.

25  Therefore ^gthe anger of the Lord was kindled against his people,

and he stretched out his hand against them and struck them,

and ^hthe mountains quaked;

and their corpses were ⁱas refuse

in the midst of the streets.

^jFor all this his anger has not turned away,

and his hand is stretched out still.

26  He will ^kraise a signal for nations far away,

and ^lwhistle for them ^mfrom the ends of the earth;

and behold, quickly, speedily they come!

27  ⁿNone is weary, none stumbles,

none slumbers or sleeps,

not a waistband is loose,

not a sandal strap broken;

28  ^otheir arrows are sharp,

all their bows bent,

their horses’ hoofs seem like flint,

and their wheels ^plike the whirlwind.

29  Their roaring is like a lion,

like young lions they roar;

they growl and ^qseize their prey;

they carry it off, and none can rescue.

30  They will growl over it on that day,

like the growling of the sea.

And if one looks to the land,

behold, ^rdarkness and distress;

and the light is darkened by its clouds.

^u“Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of hosts;

^vthe whole earth is full of his glory!”²

^d“‘Keep on hearing,³ but do not understand;

keep on seeing,⁴ but do not perceive.’

10  ^eMake the heart of this people ^fdull,⁵

and their ears heavy,

and blind their eyes;

^glest they see with their eyes,

and hear with their ears,

and understand with their hearts,

and turn and be healed.”

11  Then I said, ^h“How long, O Lord?”

And he said:

“Until ⁱcities lie waste

without inhabitant,

and houses without people,

and the land is a desolate waste,

12  and the Lord removes people far away,

and the forsaken places are many in the midst of the land.

13  ^jAnd though a tenth remain in it,

it will be burned⁶ again,

like a terebinth or an oak,

whose stump ^kremains

when it is felled.”

^lThe holy seed⁷ is its stump.

^w“‘It shall not stand,

and it shall not come to pass.

8  For the head of Syria is ^xDamascus,

and the head of Damascus is Rezin.

And within sixty-five years

Ephraim will be shattered from being a people.

9  And the head of Ephraim is Samaria,

and the head of Samaria is ^ythe son of Remaliah.

^zIf you⁵ are not firm in faith,

you will not be firm at all.’”