The fruit of the land will be the pride and joy of Israel's survivors.

3 Then whoever is left in Zion and whoever remains in Jerusalem will be called holy, everyone who is recorded among the living in Jerusalem. 4 Adonay will wash away the filth of Zion's people.b He will clean bloodstains from Jerusalem with a spirit of judgment and a spirit of burning. 5 Yahweh will create a cloud of smoke during the day and a glowing flame of fire during the night over the whole area of Mount Zion and over the assembly. His glory will cover everything. 6 It will be a shelter from the heat during the day as well as a refuge and hiding place from storms and rain.

The Song about the Vineyard 5 1 Let me sing a lovesong to my beloved about his vineyard: My beloved had a vineyard on a fertile hill.

2 He dug it up, removed its stones, planted it with the choicest vines, built a watchtower in it, and made a winepress in it.

Then he waited for it to produce good grapes, but it produced only sour, wild grapes.

3 Now then, you inhabitants of Jerusalem and Judah, judge between me and my vineyard!

4 What more could have been done for my vineyard than what I have already done for it?

When I waited for it to produce good grapes, why did it produce only sour, wild grapes?

5 Now then, let me tell you what I will do to my vineyard.

I will tear away its hedge so that it can be devoured and tear down its wall so that it can be trampled.

6 I will make it a wasteland.

It will never be pruned or hoed.

Thorns and weeds will grow in it, and I will command the clouds not to rain on it.

7 The vineyard of Yahweh Tsebaoth is the nation of Israel, and the people of Judah are the garden of his delight.

He hoped for justice but saw only slaughter, for righteousness but heard only cries of distress.

Six Sins Condemned 8 How horrible it will be for you who acquire house after house and buy field after field until there's nothing left and you have to live by yourself in the land.

9 With my own ears I heard Yahweh Tsebaoth say, "Many houses will become empty.

Large, beautiful houses will be without people to live in them.

10 A ten-acre vineyard will produce only six gallons of wine, and two quarts of seed will produce only four quarts of grain."

11 How horrible it will be for those who get up early to look for a drink, who sit up late until they are drunk from wine.

12 At their feasts there are lyres and harps, tambourines and flutes, and wine.

Yet, they don't pay attention to what Yahweh is doing or see what his hands have done.

13 "My people will go into exile because they don't understand what I'm doing.

Honored men will starve, and common people will be parched with thirst."

14 That is why the grave's appetite increases.

It opens its mouth very wide so that honored people and common people will go down into it.

Those who are noisy and joyous will go down into it.

15 People will be brought down. Everyone will be humbled.

And the eyes of arrogant people will be humbled.

16 Yahweh Tsebaoth will be honored when he judges.

The holy El will show himself to be holy when he does what is right.

17 Then lambs will graze as if they were in their own pasture, and foreigners will eat among the ruins of the rich.

18 How horrible it will be for those who string people along with lies and empty promises, whose lives are sinful.

19 They say, "Let Yahweh hurry and quickly do his work so that we may see what he has in mind.

Let the plan of Qedosh Yisrael happen quickly so that we may understand what he is doing."

20 How horrible it will be for those who call evil good and good evil, who turn darkness into light and light into darkness, who turn what is bitter into something sweet and what is sweet into something bitter.

21 How horrible it will be for those who think they are wise and consider themselves to be clever.

22 How horrible it will be for those who are heroes at drinking wine, who are champions at mixing drinks, 23 who declare the guilty innocent for a bribe, who take away the rights of righteous people.

The LORD Will Use Another Nation to Punish His People 24 As flames burn up straw and dry grass shrivels in flames, so their roots will rot, and their blossoms will blow away like dust.

They have rejected the teachings of Yahweh Tsebaoth and have despised the word of Qedosh Yisrael .

25 That's why the anger of Yahweh burns hot against his people, and he is ready to use his power to strike them down.

The hills tremble, and dead bodies lie like garbage in the streets.

Even after all this, his anger has not disappeared, and he is still ready to use his power.

26 Yahweh raises up a flag for the nations far away.

With a whistle he signals those at the ends of the earth.

Look, they are coming very quickly!

27 None of them grow tired or stumble.

None of them slumber or sleep.

The belts on their waists aren't loose or their sandal straps broken.

28 Their arrows are sharpened; all their bows are ready to shoot.

Their horses' hoofs are as hard as flint.

Their chariot wheels are as quick as the wind.

29 They roar like a lioness.

They growl like a young lion.

They growl as they snatch their prey and carry it off to where no one can rescue it.

30 On that day they will roar over their prey as the sea roars.

If they look at the land, they will see only darkness and distress.

Even the light will be darkened by thick clouds.

Isaiah Is Sent with a Message for the LORD'S People 6 1 In the year King Uzziah died, I saw Adonay sitting on a high and lofty throne. The bottom of his robe filled the temple. 2 Angelsa were standing above him. Each had six wings: With two they covered their faces, with two they covered their feet, and with two they flew. 3 They called to each other and said, "Holy, holy, holy is Yahweh Tsebaoth !

The whole earth is filled with his glory."

4 Their voices shook the foundations of the doorposts, and the temple filled with smoke. 5 So I said, "Oh, no!

I'm doomed.

Every word that passes through my lips is sinful.

I live among people with sinful lips.

I have seen the Melek , Yahweh Tsebaoth !"

6 Then one of the angels flew to me. In his hand was a burning coal that he had taken from the altar with tongs. 7 He touched my mouth with it and said, "This has touched your lips. Your guilt has been taken away, and your sin has been forgiven."

8 Then I heard the voice of Adonay , saying, "Whom will I send? Who will go for us?"

I said, "Here I am. Send me!"

9 And he said, "Go and tell these people, 'No matter how closely you listen, you'll never understand.

No matter how closely you look, you'll never see.'

10 Make these people close-minded.

Plug their ears.

Shut their eyes.

Otherwise, they may see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their minds, and return and be healed."

11 I asked, "How long, O Adonay ?"

And he replied, "Until the cities lie in ruins with no one living in them, the houses have no people, and the land is completely desolate.

12 Yahweh will send his people far away, and a large area in the middle of the land will be abandoned.

13 Even if one out of ten people is left in it, the land will be burned again.

When a sacred oak or an oak is cut down, a stump is left.

The holy seed will be the land's stump."

Isaiah God's prophet for over forty years, Isaiah spoke the words of God to the people of God. When Isaiah talked to God, he called him Adonay (Isa. 6:1) Elohim (Isa. 7:13) Yahweh (Isa. 37:6) Yahweh Tsebaoth (Isa. 39:5)

The Virgin Will Have a Child 7 1 When Ahaz, son of Jotham and grandson of Uzziah, was king of Judah, Aram's King Rezin and Israel's King Pekah, son of Remaliah, went to Jerusalem to attack it, but they couldn't defeat it. 2 When word reached David's family that the Arameans had made an alliance with Ephraim, the hearts of the king and his people were shaken as the trees of the forest are shaken by the wind.

3 Then Yahweh said to Isaiah, "Go out with your son Shear Jashub to meet Ahaz at the end of the ditch of the Upper Pool on the road to the Laundryman's Field. 4 Say to him, 'Be careful, stay calm, and don't be afraid. Don't lose heart because of the fierce anger of Rezin from Aram and Remaliah's son. These two are smoldering logs.' 5 Aram, Ephraim, and Remaliah's son have planned evil against you, saying, 6 'Let's march against Judah, tear it apart, divide it among ourselves, and set up Tabeel's son as its king.' 7 This is what Adonay Yahweh says: It won't take place; it won't happen.

8 The capital of Aram is Damascus, and the leader of Damascus is Rezin.

Ephraim will be shattered within 65 years so that it will no longer be a nation.

9 The capital of Ephraim is Samaria, and the leader of Samaria is Remaliah's son.

If you don't remain faithful, you won't remain standing.