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Isaiah 5:12-20 Lexham English Bible (LEB)

12. And there will be lyre and harp, tambourine and flute, and wine at their feasts, but they do not look at the deeds of Yahweh, and they do not see the work of his hands.

13. Therefore my people will go into exile without knowledge, and their nobles will be men of hunger, and their multitude is parched with thirst.

14. Therefore Sheol has enlarged its throat, and it has opened wide its mouth without limit, and her nobles will go down, and her multitude, her tumult and those who revel in her.

15. And humankind is bowed down, and man is brought low, and the eyes of the haughty are humiliated.

16. But Yahweh of hosts is exalted by justice, and the holy God shows himself holy by righteousness.

17. And then the lambs will graze as in their pasture, and fatlings, kids will eat among the sites of ruins.

18. Ah! Those who drag iniquity along with the cords of falsehood and sin as with rope of the cart,

19. those who say, “Let him make haste; let him hurry his work so that we may see it and let it draw near and let the plan of the holy one of Israel come so that we may know it!”

20. Ah! Those who call evil good and good evil, those who put darkness for light and light for darkness, those who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter!

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