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Isaiah pronounces woe on those who join house to house and field to field, hoarding land (Isaiah 5:8). He also denounces those driven by drinking and pleasure who do not regard the LORD’s work (Isaiah 5:11-12). Other woes include calling evil good, self-wise pride, and bribery that denies justice to the righteous (Isaiah 5:20-23).
8Woe to those who join house to house, who lay field to field, until there be no room, and you be made to dwell alone in the midst of the land!
9In my ears [says] Yahweh of Hosts, Of a truth many houses shall be desolate, even great and beautiful, without inhabitant.
10For ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and a homer of seed shall yield [but] an ephah.
11Woe to those who rise up early in the morning, that they may follow strong drink; who stay late into the night, until wine inflame them!
12The harp and the lute, the tambourine and the pipe, and wine, are [in] their feasts; but they don`t regard the work of Yahweh, neither have they considered the operation of his hands.
13Therefore my people are gone into captivity for lack of knowledge; and their honorable men are famished, and their multitude are parched with thirst.
14Therefore Sheol has enlarged its desire, and opened its mouth without measure; and their glory, and their multitude, and their pomp, and he who rejoices among them, descend [into it].
15The mean man is bowed down, and the great man is humbled, and the eyes of the lofty are humbled:
16but Yahweh of Hosts is exalted in justice, and God the Holy One is sanctified in righteousness.
17Then shall the lambs feed as in their pasture, and the waste places of the fat ones shall wanderers eat.
18Woe to those who draw iniquity with cords of falsehood, and sin as it were with a cart rope;
19who 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 near and come, that we may know it!
20Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil; who put darkness for light, and light for darkness; who put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!
21Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight!
22Woe to those who are mighty to drink wine, and men of strength to mingle strong drink;
23who justify the wicked for a bribe, and take away the righteousness of the righteous from him!