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\c 5
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\q1
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\v 1 Now I will sing a song about Yahweh, my dear friend,
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\q2 and about his vineyard.
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\q2 The vineyard was on a very fertile hillside.
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\q1
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\v 2 My friend plowed the ground and cleared away the stones.
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\q2 Then he planted very good grapevines on that ground.
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\q1 In the middle of the vineyard, he built a watchtower,
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\q2 and he dug a winepress.
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\q1 Then he waited each year to harvest some good grapes,
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\q2 but the vines produced only sour grapes.
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\b
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\q1
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\v 3 Now this is what my friend Yahweh says:
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\q2 "You people of Jerusalem and other places in Judah,
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\q1 You are like my vineyard;
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\q2 so you judge which of us has done what is right.
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\q1
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\v 4 What more could I have done for you
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\q2 than what I have already done?
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\q1 I expected you to be doing good deeds,
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\q2 so it is disgusting that you were doing only evil deeds
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\q2 like the vineyard that produced only sour grapes!
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\b
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\q1
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\v 5 So, I will now tell you what I will do to Judah, the place that is like my vineyard.
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\q1 I will cut down the hedges,
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\q2 and my vineyard will become a pasture.
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\q1 I will tear down the walls of the cities
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\q2 and allow wild animals to trample the land.
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\q1
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\v 6 I will cause it to become a wasteland
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\q2 where the vines are not pruned and the ground is not hoed.
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\q1 It will be a place where briers and thorns grow.
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\q2 And I will command that no rain will fall on it."
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\b
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\q1
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\v 7 The nation of Israel is like the vineyard of Yahweh who is commander of the angel armies.
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\q2 The people of Judah are like the garden that was pleasing to him.
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\q1 He expected them to be doing what is just,
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\q2 but instead, what he saw was people murdering others.
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\q1 He expected that they would be doing righteous deeds,
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\q2 but instead, he heard people shouting for someone to help them, because others were attacking them.
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\s5
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\q1
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\v 8 Terrible things will happen to those who keep acquiring houses and fields \q1 without paying attention to the laws about who owns the land.
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\q1 You use your riches to gain more and more property,
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\q2 and soon there is no more property for others to buy,
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\q2 and you would be the only land owners there are in that place.
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\p
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\v 9 But I heard Yahweh, commander of the angel armies, solemnly declare this:
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\q1 "Some day, many houses will have no one to live in them,
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\q2 even the large and beautiful homes will be empty.
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\q1
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\v 10 The land that grows vines in this place should require ten pairs of oxen to work them,
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\q1 but this land would not produce enough grapes to make even twenty liters of wine.
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\q2 When ten baskets of seed are sown on that land,
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\q1 that land will only produce one basket of grain at harvest time."
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\q1
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\v 11 Terrible things will happen to those who get up early each morning
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\q2 to begin drinking alcoholic drinks,
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\q1 and who stay awake until late at night drinking a lot more wine
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\q2 until they are completely drunk.
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\q1
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\v 12 They have big parties and provide lots of wine.
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\q2 At their parties, there are people playing harps and lyres and tambourines and flutes,
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\q1 but they never think about what Yahweh does
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\q2 or appreciate what he has created.
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\s5
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\q1
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\v 13 So my people will be exiled far away
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\q2 because they do not know about me.
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\q1 Those who are now very important and honored will starve,
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\q2 and the other people will die from thirst.
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\q1
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\v 14 It is as though the place where the dead people are is eagerly looking for more Israelite people,
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\q2 opening its mouth to swallow them,
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\q1 and a huge number of people will be thrown into that place,
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\q2 including their leaders as well as a noisy crowd of people who enjoy living in Jerusalem.
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\s5
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\q1
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\v 15 Yahweh will humble everyone;
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\q2 he will humble everyone who is proud.
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\q1
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\v 16 But everyone will honor Yahweh, commander of the angel armies, the Holy One, because he has acted justly.
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\q2 God will show that he is holy by doing righteous deeds.
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\q1
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\v 17 Then sheep and lambs will be able to find good grass to eat;
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\q2 they will pass through the ruined places to eat the grass.
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\b
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\s5
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\q1
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\v 18 Some people who are working hard to sin,
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\q2 working as hard as if they were dragging behind them the wrong and useless things that they are doing.
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\q1 Terrible things will happen to them!
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\q1
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\v 19 They make fun of God and say to him,
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\q2 "Quickly do something to punish us!
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\q2 We want to see what you will do.
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\q1 You, the Holy One of Israel, should do what you are planning to do,
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\q2 because we want to know what it is."
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\b
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\q1
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\v 20 Terrible things will happen to those who say
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\q2 that evil is good, and that good is evil,
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\q1 that darkness is light and that light is darkness,
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\q2 that what is bitter is sweet and what is sweet is bitter.
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\v 21 Terrible things will happen to those who think that they are wise
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\q2 and that they are very clever.
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\b
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\q1
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\v 22 Terrible things will happen to those who think that they are heroes
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\q2 because they are able to drink lots of wine,
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\q2 and who boast about being able to mix good alcoholic drinks.
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\q1
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\v 23 If people offer these corrupt judges money so they will not punish the wicked,
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\q2 they accept that money.
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\q2 These same judges punish innocent people.
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\q1
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\v 24 Therefore, just like fires burn up stubble
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\q2 and dry grass shrivels up and quickly burns in flames,
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\q1 it will be as though those people have roots that will rot
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\q2 and have flowers that will wither.
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\q1 That will happen because they rejected the laws of Yahweh, commander of the angel armies;
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\q2 they have despised the messages of the Holy One of Israel.
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\q1
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\v 25 That is why Yahweh is extremely angry with his people;
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\q2 it is as though his hand is raised and he is ready to smash them.
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\q1 When he does that, the mountains will shake,
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\q2 and the corpses of people will be scattered in the streets like manure.
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\q1 But even when that happens, Yahweh will still be very angry;
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\q2 he will be ready to punish his people again.
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\q1
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\v 26 Yahweh will send a signal to summon armies of nations far away;
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\q2 it is as though he will whistle to those soldiers who are in very remote places on the earth.
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\q1 They will come very swiftly toward Jerusalem.
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\q1
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\v 27 They will not get tired or stumble.
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\q2 They will not stop to rest or to sleep.
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\q1 None of their belts will be loose,
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\q1 and none of them will have sandals with broken straps,
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\q2 so they will all be ready to fight in battles.
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\v 28 Their arrows will be sharp,
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\q2 and their bows will be ready to shoot those arrows in a battle.
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\q1 Because their horses pull the chariots fast, sparks will shoot out from their hooves,
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\q2 and the wheels of the chariots will spin like whirlwinds.
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\q1
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\v 29 They will roar like fierce lions
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\q2 that growl and then pounce on the animals they want to kill;
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\q1 they will carry them off,
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\q2 and no one will be able to rescue them.
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\v 30 Similarly, your enemies will roar over the people they are about to kill,
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\q2 like the sea roars.
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\q1 On that day, if someone looks across the land,
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\q2 he will see only people who are in darkness and distress;
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\q2 it will be as though even the sunlight is hidden by dark clouds.
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