¹ Israel is an exhausted vine, he maketh fruit equal^◦ to himself; according·​·to the multitude of his fruit he has multiplied the altars; according·​·to the goodness of his land they have made·​·good the statues.

² Their heart is parted; now shall they be·​·guilty; He^◦ shall overturn^* their altars, He shall devastate their statues.

³ For now they shall say, We have no king, because^◦ we feared not Jehovah; and what should the king do to us?

⁴ They have spoken words, making· vain ·oaths in cutting^◦ a covenant; and judgment shall flourish as gall^* upon the furrows of the field.

⁵ The neighbors^◦ of Samaria shall be·​·afraid because of the heifers of Beth-aven; for the people of it shall mourn over it, and the idolatrous·​·priests of it that rejoiced on it, for^▵ the glory of it, because^◦ it is exiled from it.

⁶ It shall be also brought^◦ unto Assyria for a gift·​·offering to king Jareb; Ephraim shall receive^◦ shame, and Israel shall be·​·ashamed of his own counsel.

⁷ Samaria is cut·​·off^◦, her king is as the foam on the faces of the waters.

⁸ And the high·​·places of Aven, the sin of Israel, shall be blotted·​·out; the thorn and the thistle shall go·​·up on their altars; and they shall say to the mountains, Cover us; and to the hills, Fall on us.

⁹ Israel, thou hast sinned from the days of Gibeah; there they stood; the battle in Gibeah against the sons of iniquity did not overtake them.

¹⁰ It is in My longing that I should chastise them; and the peoples shall be gathered against them, when they shall bind themselves in their two eyes.

¹¹ And Ephraim is as a heifer that is taught, loving to thresh; and I^◦ passed upon the goodness of her neck; I will make Ephraim to ride; Judah shall plow, Jacob shall harrow.

¹² Sow for yourselves for justice, harvest according to mercy; newly·​·plow for yourselves newly·​·plowed ground; and it is time to inquire after Jehovah, until He come and instruct you with justice.

¹³ You have plowed wickedness, you have harvested perversity; you have eaten the fruit of denial; for thou didst trust in thy way, in the multitude of thy heroes.

¹⁴ And an uproar shall arise among^◦ thy people, and all thy fortresses shall be devastated, as Shalman devastated Betharbel in the day of battle; a mother was dashed upon her sons^*.

¹⁵ In·​·this·​·manner shall Bethel do to you on·​·account·​·of^◦ the evil, your evil; in the dawn being cut·​·off^◦ shall the king of Israel be cut·​·off^◦.

¹ I will now^◦ sing to My Beloved a song of My Beloved for His vineyard. My Beloved had^◦ a vineyard in a horn of a son of oil;^*

² and He fenced· it ·around, and He cleared· it ·of·​·stones^◦, and He planted it with a noble·​·vine; and He built a tower in the midst of it, and He also hewed·​·out a winepress in it; and He waited for it to make grapes, but it made wild·​·grapes^◦.

³ And now, O thou who dwellest in Jerusalem, and a man^◦ of Judah, judge, I pray^◦ you, between Me and My vineyard.

⁴ What still was there to do for My vineyard, that I have not done in it? Wherefore I waited for it to make grapes, but it made wild·​·grapes^◦.

⁵ But now, I will let you know that which I^◦ will do to My vineyard: I will remove its hedge, and it shall become· pasture for^* ·brutish animals; I will break·​·forth its fence, and it shall be trampled,

⁶ and I will set^◦ it as a desolation^◦; it shall not be pruned, neither shall it be hoed; but the briar and the thorn·​·bush shall go·​·up; and I will command the thick·​·clouds that they rain no rain on it.

⁷ For the vineyard of Jehovah of Armies is the house of Israel, and the man^◦ of Judah the plant of His pleasing; and he waited for judgment, but behold, bloodshed! And for justice, but behold, a cry!

⁸ Woe to those who touch house to house, who make them near, field to field, until there be no^▵ place, and you dwell alone in the midst^◦ of the land!

⁹ In my ears Jehovah of Armies said, Surely many houses shall become for a desolation, the great and the good ones, with no·​·one dwelling in them.

¹⁰ For ten acres^* of vineyard shall make one bath, and a homer of seed shall make an ephah.

¹¹ Woe to them who get·​·up·​·early in the morning, that they may pursue strong·​·drink, who delay in the twilight, till wine inflames them!

¹² And the harp, and the viol, the timbrel, and the flute, and wine, are their feasts; but on the work of Jehovah they look not, and the operation of His hands they do not behold.

¹³ For so My people are exiled because they are without knowledge; and their glory is mortals of hunger, and their crowd is parched^◦ with thirst.

¹⁴ Therefore hell enlarged its soul, and opened·​·up^◦ its mouth without^◦ statute; its honor, and its crowd, and its uproar, and they who triumph, shall go·​·down into it.

¹⁵ And man shall be bowed·​·down, and a man^◦* shall be made·​·low, and the eyes of the haughty shall be made·​·low;

¹⁶ and Jehovah of Armies shall be·​·lofty in judgment, and the holy God^◦ shall be sanctified in justice.

¹⁷ And they shall pasture as lambs according·​·to their manner, and the waste·​·places of the fatlings^* shall the sojourners eat.

¹⁸ Woe unto those who draw iniquity with cords of vanity, and sin, as with the ropes of a cart;

¹⁹ who say, Let Him hasten; let Him hurry His deed, that we may see it; and let the counsel of the Holy·​·One of Israel come·​·near and come, that we may·​·know it!

²⁰ Woe unto those who say for evil good, and for good evil; setting darkness for light, and light for darkness; setting bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!

²¹ Woe unto the wise in their own eyes, and intelligent before their own faces!

²² Woe to heroes at drinking wine, and men^◦ of valor at mingling strong·​·drink,

²³ who justify the wicked because^▵ of a bribe, and remove the justice of the just from him!

²⁴ Therefore as the tongue of fire devours the stubble, and the flame slackens the chaff^◦, so shall their root be as decay, and their blossom shall go·​·up as the powder; for they have rejected the law of Jehovah of Armies, and disdained the saying of the Holy·​·One of Israel.

²⁵ Therefore the anger of Jehovah is·​·fierce against^◦ His people, and He has stretched·​·out His hand against them, and has smitten them; and the mountains tremble, and their carcasses are as the dung^◦ in the midst^◦ of the streets. For all this His anger is not turned·​·back, but His hand is stretched·​·out still.

²⁶ And He will lift·​·up a standard for the nations from far·​·off, and He will hiss unto them from the end of the earth; and, behold, with haste shall they come swiftly.

²⁷ No·​·one is faint and no·​·one is stumbling in Him; He shall not slumber nor sleep; neither shall the girdle^◦ of His hips^◦ be loosed^◦, nor shall the lace of His shoes be pulled·​·out;

²⁸ whose arrows are sharpened, and all His bows are bent^◦; the hoofs of His horses shall be reckoned as a rock, and His rolling wheels as a storm.

²⁹ His roaring is as that of an old·​·lion; He roars as young·​·lions; He growls, and shall seize the prey; and He shall seize, and none shall rescue.

³⁰ In that^◦ day He shall growl against him as the growling of the sea; and He shall look to the land, and behold, darkness, and adversity, and the light is darkened in her dropping·​·down^◦.