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shall the branch of the L
ORD
be beautiful and glorious, and the fruit of the earth
shall be
excellent
and comely for them that are escaped of Israel.
3
And it shall come to pass,
that he that is
left in
Zion, and
he that
remaineth in Jerusalem, shall be called holy,
even
every one that is written among
the living in Jerusalem:
4
When the Lord shall have washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion,
and shall have purged the blood of Jerusalem from the midst thereof by the spirit of judgment, and
by the spirit of burning.
5
And the L
ORD
will create upon every dwelling place of mount Zion, and
upon her assemblies, a cloud and smoke by day, and the shining of a flaming fire by night: for upon
all the glory
shall be
a defence.
6
And there shall be a tabernacle for a shadow in the daytime from
the heat, and for a place of refuge, and for a covert from storm and from rain.
CHAPTER 5
Now will I sing to my wellbeloved a song of my beloved touching his vineyard. My wellbeloved
hath a vineyard in a very fruitful hill:
2
And he fenced it, and gathered out the stones thereof, and
planted it with the choicest vine, and built a tower in the midst of it, and also made a winepress
therein: and he looked that it should bring forth grapes, and it brought forth wild grapes.
3
And
now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem, and men of Judah, judge, I pray you, betwixt me and my vineyard.
4
What could have been done more to my vineyard, that I have not done in it? wherefore, when I
looked that it should bring forth grapes, brought it forth wild grapes?
5
And now go to; I will tell
you what I will do to my vineyard: I will take away the hedge thereof, and it shall be eaten up;
and
break down the wall thereof, and it shall be trodden down:
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And I will lay it waste: it shall not be
pruned, nor digged; but there shall come up briers and thorns: I will also command the clouds that
they rain no rain upon it.
7
For the vineyard of the L
ORD
of hosts
is
the house of Israel, and the men
of Judah his pleasant plant: and he looked for judgment, but behold oppression; for righteousness,
but behold a cry.
8
Woe unto them that join house to house,
that
lay field to field, till
there be
no place, that they
may be placed alone in the midst of the earth!
9
In mine ears
said
the L
ORD
of hosts, Of a truth many
houses shall be desolate,
even
great and fair, without inhabitant.
10
Yea, ten acres of vineyard shall
yield one bath, and the seed of an homer shall yield an ephah.
11
Woe unto them that rise up early in the morning,
that
they may follow strong drink; that
continue until night,
till
wine inflame them!
12
And the harp, and the viol, the tabret, and pipe, and
wine, are in their feasts: but they regard not the work of the L
ORD
, neither consider the operation
of his hands.
13
Therefore my people are gone into captivity, because
they have
no knowledge: and their
honourable men
are
famished, and their multitude dried up with thirst.
14
Therefore hell hath
enlarged herself, and opened her mouth without measure: and their glory, and their multitude, and
their pomp, and he that rejoiceth, shall descend into it.
15
And the mean man shall be brought down,
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