7. Because the vineyard of Jehovah of Hosts [Is] the house of Israel, And the man of Judah His pleasant plant, And He waiteth for judgment, and lo, oppression, For righteousness, and lo, a cry.
8. Woe [to] those joining house to house, Field to field they bring near, till there is no place, And ye have been settled by yourselves In the midst of the land!
9. By the weapons of Jehovah of Hosts Do not many houses a desolation become? Great and good without inhabitant!
10. For ten acres of vineyard do yield one bath, And an homer of seed yieldeth an ephah.
11. Woe [to] those rising early in the morning, Strong drink they pursue! Tarrying in twilight, wine inflameth them!
12. And harp, and psaltery, tabret, and pipe, And wine, have been their banquets, And the work of Jehovah they behold not, Yea, the work of His hands they have not seen.
13. Therefore my people removed without knowledge, And its honourable ones are famished, And its multitude dried up of thirst.
14. Therefore hath Sheol enlarged herself, And hath opened her mouth without limit. And gone down hath its honour, and its multitude, And its noise, and its exulting one--into her.
15. And bowed down is the low, and humbled the high, And the eyes of the haughty become low,
16. And Jehovah of Hosts is high in judgment, And the Holy God sanctified in righteousness,
17. And fed have lambs according to their leading, And waste places of the fat ones Do sojourners consume.
18. Woe [to] those drawing out iniquity with cords of vanity, And as [with] thick ropes of the cart--sin.
19. Who are saying, `Let Him hurry, Let Him hasten His work, that we may see, And let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel Draw near and come, and we know.'