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For you shall be like an oak withering its leaves, and like a garden where there is no water for her.

many peoples shall come. And they shall say, "Come, let us go up to the mountain of Yahweh, to the house of the God of Jacob, and may he teach us part of his ways, and let us walk in his paths." For instruction shall go out from Zion, and the word of Yahweh from Jerusalem.

He shall judge between the nations and he shall arbitrate for many peoples. They shall beat their swords into ploughshares and their spears into pruning hooks. A nation shall not lift up a sword against a nation, and they shall not learn war again.

For you have forsaken your people, house of Jacob, because they are full from the east, and of soothsayers like the Philistines, and they make alliances with the offspring of foreigners.

For there is a day for Yahweh of hosts against all of the proud and the lofty and against all that is lifted up and humble,

On that day humanity will throw away its idols of silver and its idols of gold, which they made for it to worship, to the rodents and to the bats—

Turn away from humanity, who has breath in its nostrils, for by what is it esteemed?

For look, the Lord Yahweh of hosts is removing every source of support from Jerusalem and from Judah: all of the supplies of bread and all of the supplies of water,

Indeed, a man will seize his brother in the house of his father: "You have a cloak; you shall be a leader for us, and this heap of ruins shall be under your hand!"

For Jerusalem has stumbled, and Judah has fallen because their speech and their deeds are against Yahweh, defying the eyes of his glory.

The look on their faces testifies against them and they declare their sin like Sodom; they do not hide it. Woe to their soul! For they have dealt out evil to themselves.

Tell the innocent that it is good for they shall eat the fruit of their deeds.

Woe to the wicked! It is bad! For what is done by his hands will be done to him.

And this shall happen: He who is left in Zion and he who remains in Jerusalem will be called holy, everyone written for life in Jerusalem,

and it will be a shelter for shade from the heat by day, and a refuge and a hiding place from rainstorm and from rain.

Let me sing for my beloved a song of my love concerning his vineyard: My beloved had a vineyard on a fertile hill.

And he dug it and cleared it of stones, and he planted it with choice vines, and he built a watchtower in the middle of it, and he even hewed out a wine vat in it, and he waited for it to yield grapes— but it yielded wild grapes.

What more was there to do for my vineyard that I have not done in it? Why did I hope for it to yield grapes, and it yielded wild grapes?

For the vineyard of Yahweh of hosts is the house of Israel, and the man of Judah is the plantation of his delight. And he waited for justice, but look! Bloodshed! For righteousness, but look! A cry of distress!

For ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and the seed of a homer will yield an ephah.