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5.4 :Wherefore, when I looked that it should bring forth grapes,
 * Brought it forth wild grapes?


 * And now come, I will tell you
 * What I will do to my vineyard:
 * I will take away the hedge thereof,
 * And it shall be eaten up;
 * I will break down the fence thereof,
 * And it shall be trodden down;
 * And I will lay it waste:
 * It shall not be pruned nor hoed,
 * But there shall come up briers and thorns;
 * I will also command the clouds
 * That they rain no rain upon it.


 * For the vineyard of the of hosts is the house of Israel,
 * And the men of Judah the plant of His delight;
 * And He looked for justice, but behold violence;
 * For righteousness, but behold a cry.


 * Woe unto them that join house to house,
 * That lay field to field,
 * Till there be no room, and ye be made to dwell
 * Alone in the midst of the land!
 * In mine ears said the of hosts:
 * Of a truth many houses shall be desolate,
 * Even great and fair, without inhabitant.
 * For ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath,
 * And the seed of a homer shall yield an ephah.


 * Woe unto them that rise up early in the morning,
 * That they may follow strong drink;
 * That tarry late into the night,
 * Till wine inflame them!
 * And the harp and the psaltery, the tabret and the pipe,
 * And wine, are in their feasts;
 * But they regard not the work of the ,
 * Neither have they considered the operation of His hands.
 * Therefore My people are gone into captivity,
 * For want of knowledge;
 * And their honourable men are famished,
 * And their multitude are parched with thirst.
 * Therefore the nether-world hath enlarged her desire,
 * And opened her mouth without measure;
 * And down goeth their glory, and their tumult, and their uproar,
 * And he that rejoiceth among them.
 * And man is bowed down,
 * And man is humbled,
 * And the eyes of the lofty are humbled;

But the of hosts is exalted through justice,
 * And God the Holy One is sanctified through righteousness.
 * Then shall the lambs feed as in their pasture,
 * And the waste places of the fat ones shall wanderers eat.


 * Woe unto them that draw iniquity with cords of vanity,
 * And sin as it were with a cart rope,
 * That say: 'Let Him make speed, let Him hasten His work,
 * That we may see it;
 * And let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel draw nigh and come,
 * That we may know it!'


 * Woe unto them that call evil good,
 * And good evil;
 * That change darkness into light,