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Isaiah 5:12-18 Catholic Public Domain Version (CPDV)

12. Harp and lyre and timbrel and pipe, as well as wine, are at your feasts. But you do not respect the work of the Lord, nor do you consider the works of his hands.

13. Because of this, my people have been led away as captives, for they did not have knowledge, and their nobles have passed away from famine, and their multitudes have dried up from thirst.

14. For this reason, Hell has expanded its soul, and has opened its mouth without any limits. And their strong ones, and their people, and their exalted and glorious ones will descend into it.

15. And man will be bowed down, and man will be humbled, and the eyes of the exalted will be brought low.

16. And the Lord of hosts will be exalted in judgment, and the holy God will be sanctified in justice.

17. And the lambs will pasture in proper order, and new arrivals will eat from the deserts turned into fertile lands.

18. Woe to you who draw iniquity with cords of vanity, and who draw sin as if with the rope of a cart,

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