7. For the vineyard of the Lord of hosts is the house of Israel. And the man of Judah is his delightful seedling. And I expected that he would do judgment, and behold iniquity, and that he would do justice, and behold an outcry.
8. Woe to you who join house to house, and who combine field to field, even to the limits of the place! Do you intend to live alone in the midst of the earth?
9. These things are in my ears, says the Lord of hosts. Otherwise, many houses, great and beautiful, will become desolate, without an inhabitant.
10. Then ten acres of vineyard will produce one small bottle of wine, and thirty measures of seed will produce three measures of grain.
11. Woe to you who rise up in the morning to pursue drunkenness, and to drink even until evening, so as to be inflamed with wine.
12. Harp and lyre and timbrel and pipe, as well as wine, are at your feasts. But you do not respect the work of the Lord, nor do you consider the works of his hands.
13. Because of this, my people have been led away as captives, for they did not have knowledge, and their nobles have passed away from famine, and their multitudes have dried up from thirst.
14. For this reason, Hell has expanded its soul, and has opened its mouth without any limits. And their strong ones, and their people, and their exalted and glorious ones will descend into it.
15. And man will be bowed down, and man will be humbled, and the eyes of the exalted will be brought low.
16. And the Lord of hosts will be exalted in judgment, and the holy God will be sanctified in justice.
17. And the lambs will pasture in proper order, and new arrivals will eat from the deserts turned into fertile lands.
18. Woe to you who draw iniquity with cords of vanity, and who draw sin as if with the rope of a cart,
19. and who say: "Let him hurry, and let his work arrive soon, so that we may see it. And let the plan of the Holy One of Israel approach and arrive, so that we may know it."
20. Woe to you who call evil good, and good evil; who substitute darkness for light, and light for darkness; who exchange bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!
21. Woe to you who are wise in your own eyes, and prudent in your own sight!