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\v 1 Let me sing for my well beloved, a song of my beloved about his vineyard.
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\q1 My well beloved had a vineyard on a very fertile hill.
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\v 2 He spaded it, removed the stones, and planted it with an excellent kind of vine.
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\q1 He built a tower in the middle of it, and also built a winepress.
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\q1 He waited for it to produce grapes, but it only produced wild grapes.
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\v 3 So now, inhabitant of Jerusalem and man of Judah,
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\q1 judge between me and my vineyard.
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\v 4 What more could have been done for my vineyard, that I have not done for it?
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\q1 When I looked for it to produce grapes, why did it produce wild grapes?
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\v 5 Now I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard: I will remove the hedge,
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\q1 I will turn it into a pasture, I will break down its wall, and it will be trampled down.
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\v 6 I will lay it waste, and it will not be pruned nor hoed. Instead, briers and thorns will spring up.
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\q1 I will also command the clouds not to rain on it.
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\v 7 For the vineyard of Yahweh of hosts is the house of Israel,
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\q1 and the man of Judah his pleasant planting;
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\q1 he waited for justice, but instead, there was killing; for righteousness, but, instead, a shout for help.
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\v 8 Woe to those who join house to house, who join field to field,
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\q1 until no room remains, and you alone remain in the land!
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\v 9 Yahweh of hosts told me,
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\q1 many houses will be empty, even great and impressive ones, without any inhabitant.
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\v 10 For a ten-yoke vineyard will yield only one bath, and one homer of seed will yield only an ephah.
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\v 11 Woe to those who rise up early in the morning to obtain strong drink,
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\q1 those who linger late into the night until wine inflames them.
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\v 12 They banquet with harp, lute, tambourine, flute, and wine,
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\q1 but they do not recognize the work of Yahweh, nor have they considered the doings of his hands.
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\v 13 Therefore my people have gone into captivity for lack of understanding;
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\q1 their honored leaders go hungry, and their common people have nothing to drink.
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\v 14 Therefore Sheol has made its appetite greater and has opened its mouth very wide;
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\q1 their elite, the people, their leaders, and the revelers and those who are happy among them, descend into Sheol.
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\v 15 Man will be forced to bend down, and mankind will be humbled; the eyes of the lofty will be cast down.
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\v 16 Yahweh of hosts will be exalted in his justice, and God the Holy One will show himself holy by his righteousness.
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\v 17 Then the sheep will feed as in their own pasture, and in the ruins, lambs will graze as foreigners.
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\f + \ft Some modern versions have \fqa and in the ruins of the rich, lambs will graze \fqb . \f*
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\v 18 Woe to those who pull along iniquity with useless cords and who pull along sin as if it were with a cart rope.
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\v 19 Woe to those who say, "Let God hurry, let him act quickly, so we can see it happen;
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\q1 and let the plans of the Holy One of Israel come, so that we may know them."
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\v 20 Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil;
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\q1 who represent darkness as light, and light as darkness;
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\q1 who represent bitter as sweet, and sweet as bitter!
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\v 21 Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own understanding!
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\v 22 Woe to those who are champions at drinking wine, and masters at mixing strong drinks;
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\v 23 who acquit the wicked for payment, and deprive the innocent of his rights!
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\v 24 Therefore as the tongue of fire devours stubble, and as the dry grass goes down in flame,
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\q1 so their root will rot, and their blossom will blow away like dust.
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\q1 This will happen because they have rejected the law of Yahweh of hosts, and because they have despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.
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\v 25 Therefore the anger of Yahweh is kindled against his people. He has reached out with his hand against them and has punished them.
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\q1 The mountains tremble, and their corpses are like garbage in the streets.
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\q1 In all these things, his anger does not subside; instead, his hand is still stretched out.
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\v 26 He will lift up a signal flag for far away nations and will whistle for those at the end of the earth.
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\q1 Look, they will come speedily and promptly.
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\v 27 None tire or stumble among them; none slumbers or sleeps.
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\q1 Nor are their belts loose, or the thongs of their sandals broken.
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\v 28 Their arrows are sharp and all their bows are bent;
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\q1 their horses' hooves are like flint, and their chariot wheels like storms.
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\v 29 Their roaring will be like a lion; they will roar like young lions.
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\q1 They will growl and seize the prey and drag it away, with none to rescue.
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\v 30 On that day they will roar against the prey as the sea roars.
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\q1 If anyone looks over the land, he will see darkness and suffering; even the light will be made dark by the clouds.
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