Isaiah 5 (NET)

Isaiah 5:1¹I will sing to my love— a song to my lover about his vineyard. My love had a vineyard on a fertile hill.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Mark 12:1Luke 20:9John 15:1Jer 2:21Matt 21:33Ps 80:8Deut 31:19-22Isa 27:2-3Song 2:16Song 5:16

Isaiah 5:2²He built a hedge around it, removed its stones, and planted a vine. He built a tower in the middle of it, and constructed a winepress. He waited for it to produce edible grapes, but it produced sour ones instead.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Jer 2:21Deut 32:32-331 Cor 9:7Isa 1:2-4Luke 13:6-7Mark 11:13Rev 14:18-20Hos 10:1Luke 20:10-18Deut 32:6

Isaiah 5:3³So now, residents of Jerusalem, people of Judah, you decide between me and my vineyard!Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Jer 2:4-5Luke 20:15-16Mark 12:9-12Matt 21:40-41Mic 6:2-3Ps 50:4-6Ps 51:4Rom 2:5Rom 3:4

Isaiah 5:4⁴What more can I do for my vineyard beyond what I have already done? When I waited for it to produce edible grapes, why did it produce sour ones instead?Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Matt 23:37Mic 6:3-4Acts 7:51-60Jer 2:5Ezek 24:13Isa 1:5Jer 2:30-31Jer 6:29-302 Chr 36:14-16

Isaiah 5:5⁵Now I will inform you what I am about to do to my vineyard: I will remove its hedge and turn it into pasture, I will break its wall and allow animals to graze there.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 28:18Lam 1:15Luke 21:24Deut 28:49-52Gen 11:4Gen 11:7Isa 10:6Isa 28:3Rev 11:22 Chr 36:4-10

Isaiah 5:6⁶I will make it a wasteland; no one will prune its vines or hoe its ground, and thorns and briers will grow there. I will order the clouds not to drop any rain on it.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 7:23-25Jer 25:11Isa 24:1-31 Kgs 17:12 Chr 36:19-21Amos 4:7Deut 28:23-24Deut 29:23Heb 6:6-8Hos 3:4

Isaiah 5:7⁷Indeed, Israel is the vineyard of the Lord of Heaven’s Armies, the people of Judah are the cultivated place in which he took delight. He waited for justice, but look what he got—disobedience! He waited for fairness, but look what he got—cries for help!Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ps 80:8-11Jas 5:4Jer 12:10Matt 3:8-101 Cor 6:8-11Deut 15:9Exod 3:7Isa 1:6Isa 3:14Isa 3:17

Isaiah 5:8⁸Beware, those who accumulate houses, who also accumulate field after field until there is no land left, and you are the only landowners remaining within the land.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Mic 2:2Hab 2:9-12Jer 22:13-17Luke 12:16-241 Kgs 21:16-20Ezek 11:15Ezek 33:24Matt 23:13

Isaiah 5:9⁹The Lord of Heaven’s Armies told me this: “Many houses will certainly become desolate, large, impressive houses will have no one living in them.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Matt 23:38Amos 3:7Amos 5:11Isa 22:142 Chr 36:21Amos 6:11Isa 27:10Isa 5:6Isa 6:11-12Matt 22:7

Isaiah 5:10¹⁰Indeed, a large vineyard will produce just a few gallons, and enough seed to yield several bushels will produce less than a bushel.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Lev 26:26Hag 1:6Hag 2:16Hag 1:9-11Ezek 45:10-11Joel 1:17Lev 27:16

Isaiah 5:11¹¹Beware, those who get up early to drink beer, those who keep drinking long after dark until they are intoxicated with wine.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Prov 23:29-30Rom 13:13Prov 20:1Isa 5:22Eccl 10:16-17Isa 28:7-81 Cor 6:101 Thess 5:6-7Gal 5:21Hab 2:15

Isaiah 5:12¹²They have stringed instruments, tambourines, flutes, and wine at their parties. So they do not recognize what the Lord is doing, they do not perceive what he is bringing about.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ps 28:5Amos 6:4-6Job 21:11-14Job 34:27Dan 5:23Jude 1:12Dan 5:1-4Gen 31:27Hos 4:10-11Isa 22:13

Isaiah 5:13¹³Therefore my people will be deported because of their lack of understanding. Their leaders will have nothing to eat, their masses will have nothing to drink.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Hos 4:6Isa 1:3Isa 1:7Isa 27:11John 3:19-20Rom 1:282 Pet 3:5Isa 42:22-25Jer 14:18Jer 14:3

Isaiah 5:14¹⁴So Death will open up its throat, and open wide its mouth; Zion’s dignitaries and masses will descend into it, including those who revel and celebrate within her.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Hab 2:5Luke 21:34Prov 30:16Ps 55:15Isa 30:33Matt 7:13Prov 27:20Rev 20:13-15Isa 14:9Num 16:30-34

Isaiah 5:15¹⁵Men will be humiliated, they will be brought low; the proud will be brought low.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 2:11Isa 2:9Jer 5:4-51 Pet 5:5Dan 4:37Exod 9:17Isa 10:12Isa 10:33Isa 13:11Isa 2:17

Isaiah 5:16¹⁶The Lord of Heaven’s Armies will be exalted when he punishes, the holy God’s authority will be recognized when he judges.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ps 46:101 Chr 29:11Isa 12:41 Pet 2:15Ezek 36:23Isa 29:23Ezek 38:23Isa 33:5Isa 57:15Isa 8:13

Isaiah 5:17¹⁷Lambs will graze as if in their pastures, amid the ruins the rich sojourners will graze.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Zeph 2:6Isa 7:25Zeph 2:14Amos 4:1-3Deut 28:33Deut 32:15Hos 8:7Isa 1:7Isa 10:16Isa 17:2

Isaiah 5:18¹⁸Beware, those who pull evil along using cords of emptiness are as good as dead, who pull sin as with cart ropes.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Jer 23:14Ezek 13:22Jer 23:10Jer 5:31Ps 36:22 Sam 16:20-23Acts 26:9Ezek 13:10-11Isa 28:15Isa 59:4-8

Isaiah 5:19¹⁹They say, “Let him hurry, let him act quickly, so we can see; let the plan of the Holy One of Israel take shape and come to pass, then we will know it!”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ezek 12:22Jer 17:152 Pet 3:3-4Amos 5:18-19Isa 66:5Jer 23:36Jer 5:12-13Ezek 12:27Isa 30:11Jer 23:18

Isaiah 5:20²⁰Beware, those who call evil good and good evil, who turn darkness into light and light into darkness, who turn bitter into sweet and sweet into bitter.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Prov 17:152 Tim 3:1-5Luke 16:15Mal 2:17Job 17:12Matt 6:22-232 Pet 2:12 Pet 2:18-19Amos 5:7Luke 11:34-35

Isaiah 5:21²¹Beware, those who think they are wise, those who think they possess understanding.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Cor 3:18-20Prov 3:7Rom 12:16Prov 26:12Prov 26:16Job 11:12John 9:41Rom 1:22Rom 11:25

Isaiah 5:22²²Beware, those who are champions at drinking, who display great courage when mixing strong drinks.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 5:11Hab 2:15Isa 28:7Isa 56:12Prov 23:19-20Isa 28:1-3

Isaiah 5:23²³They pronounce the guilty innocent for a payoff, they ignore the just cause of the innocent.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 10:2Jas 5:6Prov 17:15Ps 94:21Isa 1:23Mic 3:11Mic 7:3Prov 31:4-52 Chr 19:7Deut 16:19

Isaiah 5:24²⁴Therefore, as flaming fire devours straw, and dry grass disintegrates in the flames, so their root will rot, and their flower will blow away like dust. For they have rejected the law of the Lord of Heaven’s Armies, they have spurned the commands of the Holy One of Israel.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 30:12Job 18:16Joel 2:5Luke 3:17Exod 15:7Isa 30:9Isa 47:141 Cor 3:12-131 Sam 15:231 Sam 15:26

Isaiah 5:25²⁵So the Lord is furious with his people; he lifts his hand and strikes them. The mountains shake, and corpses lie like manure in the middle of the streets. Despite all this, his anger does not subside, and his hand is ready to strike again.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 10:4Isa 9:212 Kgs 9:37Isa 9:17Dan 9:16Jer 4:241 Thess 2:162 Chr 36:16Jer 16:4Nah 1:5

Isaiah 5:26²⁶He lifts a signal flag for a distant nation, he whistles for it to come from the far regions of the earth. Look, they come quickly and swiftly.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Zech 10:8Deut 28:49Isa 7:18Isa 18:3Isa 11:12Mal 1:11Hab 1:8Isa 13:2Isa 13:5Isa 30:16

Isaiah 5:27²⁷None tire or stumble, they don’t stop to nap or sleep. They don’t loosen their belts, or unstrap their sandals to rest.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Job 12:18Joel 2:7-8Job 12:211 Kgs 2:5Dan 5:6Deut 32:25Eph 6:13-14Isa 11:5Isa 45:1Isa 45:5

Isaiah 5:28²⁸Their arrows are sharpened, and all their bows are prepared. The hooves of their horses are hard as flint, and their chariot wheels are like a windstorm.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ps 45:5Ezek 21:9-11Nah 2:3-4Isa 21:1Jer 47:3Jer 5:16Judg 5:22Mic 4:13Nah 3:2Ps 120:4

Isaiah 5:29²⁹Their roar is like a lion’s; they roar like young lions. They growl and seize their prey; they drag it away and no one can come to the rescue.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 42:22Isa 49:24-25Mic 5:8Zech 11:3Amos 3:8Gen 49:9Hos 11:10Isa 10:6Isa 31:4Jer 4:7

Isaiah 5:30³⁰At that time they will growl over their prey, it will sound like sea waves crashing against rocks. One will look out over the land and see the darkness of disaster, clouds will turn the light into darkness.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 8:22Joel 2:10Jer 4:23-28Rev 16:10-11Ezek 32:7-8Isa 13:10Jer 6:23Luke 21:25-26Matt 24:29Ps 93:3-4