Isaías 5

1 Let me sing for my well beloved a song of my beloved about his vineyard.

My beloved had a vineyard on a very fruitful hill.

2 He dug it up,

gathered out its stones,

planted it with the choicest vine,

built a tower in the middle of it,

and also cut out a wine press in it.

He looked for it to yield grapes,

but it yielded wild grapes.

3 "Now, inhabitants of Jerusalem and men of Judah,

please judge between me and my vineyard.

4 What could have been done more to my vineyard, that I have not done in it?

Why, when I looked for it to yield grapes, did it yield wild grapes?

5 Now I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard.

I will take away its hedge, and it will be eaten up.

I will break down its wall, and it will be trampled down.

6 I will lay it a wasteland.

It won’t be pruned or hoed,

but it will grow briers and thorns.

I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain on it."

7 For the vineyard of Yahweh of Armies is the house of Israel,

and the men of Judah his pleasant plant.

He looked for justice, but behold, oppression,

for righteousness, but behold, a cry of distress.

8 Woe to those who join house to house,

who lay field to field, until there is no room,

and you are made to dwell alone in the middle of the land!

9 In my ears, Yahweh of Armies says: "Surely many houses will be desolate,

even great and beautiful, unoccupied.

10 For ten acres*5:10 literally, ten yokes, or the amount of land that ten yokes of oxen can plow in one day, which is about 10 acres or 4 hectares. of vineyard shall yield one bath,*5:10 1 bath is about 22 liters or 5.8 U. S. gallons

and a homer*5:10 1 homer is about 220 liters or 6 bushels of seed shall yield an ephah."*5:10 1 ephah is about 22 liters or 0.6 bushels or about 2 pecks—only one tenth of what was sown.

11 Woe to those who rise up early in the morning, that they may follow strong drink,

who stay late into the night, until wine inflames them!

12 The harp, lyre, tambourine, and flute, with wine, are at their feasts;

but they don’t respect the work of Yahweh,

neither have they considered the operation of his hands.

13 Therefore my people go into captivity for lack of knowledge.

Their honorable men are famished,

and their multitudes are parched with thirst.

14 Therefore Sheol*5:14 Sheol is the place of the dead. has enlarged its desire,

and opened its mouth without measure;

and their glory, their multitude, their pomp, and he who rejoices among them, descend into it.

15 So man is brought low,

mankind is humbled,

and the eyes of the arrogant ones are humbled;

16 but Yahweh of Armies is exalted in justice,

and God the Holy One is sanctified in righteousness.

17 Then the lambs will graze as in their pasture,

and strangers will eat the ruins of the rich.

18 Woe to those who draw iniquity with cords of falsehood,

and wickedness as with cart rope,

19 who say, "Let him make haste, let him hasten his work, that we may see it;

let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel draw near and come,

that we may know it!"

20 Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil;

who put darkness for light,

and light for darkness;

who put bitter for sweet,

and sweet for bitter!

21 Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes,

and prudent in their own sight!

22 Woe to those who are mighty to drink wine,

and champions at mixing strong drink;

23 who acquit the guilty for a bribe,

but deny justice for the innocent!

24 Therefore as the tongue of fire devours the stubble,

and as the dry grass sinks down in the flame,

so their root shall be as rottenness,

and their blossom shall go up as dust,

because they have rejected the law of Yahweh of Armies,

and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.

25 Therefore Yahweh’s anger burns against his people,

and he has stretched out his hand against them and has struck them.

The mountains tremble,

and their dead bodies are as refuse in the middle of the streets.

For all this, his anger is not turned away,

but his hand is still stretched out.

26 He will lift up a banner to the nations from far away,

and he will whistle for them from the end of the earth.

Behold, they will come speedily and swiftly.

27 No one shall be weary nor stumble among them;

no one shall slumber nor sleep,

neither shall the belt of their waist be untied,

nor the strap of their sandals be broken,

28 whose arrows are sharp,

and all their bows bent.

Their horses’ hoofs will be like flint,

and their wheels like a whirlwind.

29 Their roaring will be like a lioness.

They will roar like young lions.

Yes, they shall roar,

and seize their prey and carry it off,

and there will be no one to deliver.

30 They will roar against them in that day like the roaring of the sea.

If one looks to the land, behold, darkness and distress.

The light is darkened in its clouds.

Te Waiata mō te Māra Wāina Huakore

1 Nā, me waiata e ahau he waiata

nā tāku i aroha nei mō tāku i kaingākau ai,

he mea mō tāna māra wāina:

He māra wāina tā tāku kaingākau

i tētahi pukepuke mōmona.

2 Nā, taiepatia ana e ia, kohikohia ana e ia ngā kōhatu o reira,

whakatōkia ana e ia ki te wāina pai rawa;

hangā ana e ia he pourewa ki waenganui,

keria ana anō e ia he poka wāina ki reira;

ā, ka tatari ia kia whai karepe,

nā, ka hua mai he karepe māori.

3 Nā, e te hunga e noho nei i Hiruhārama,

me ngā tāngata o Hūrā,

whakaritea tā māua whakawā

ko tāku māra wāina.

4 Ko te aha ake anō rā i āhei kia mahia ki tāku māra,

kīhai i mahia e ahau ki reira?

He aha rā, i ahau i tatari ai kia hua mai he karepe,

i puta kē mai ai he karepe māori?

5 Nā ināianei, māku e whakaatu ki a koutou

tāku e mea ai ki tāku māra wāina.

Ka tangohia atu e ahau tōna pā whakaruru hau,

ā, ka pau ia te kai;

ka tukitukia hoki e ahau tōna taiepa,

ā, ka takatakahia.

6 Ā, ka meinga e ahau kia ururua;

e kore e tapatapahia, e kore e ngakia,

engari, ka huaranga ake te tātarāmoa me te tūmatakuru;

ka ako atu hoki ahau ki ngā kapua

kia kaua te ua e uaina ki reira.

7 Ko te māra wāina hoki a Ihowā o ngā mano,

ko te whare o Īharaira,

ā, ko ngā tāngata o Hūrā

tāna mea āhuareka i whakatō ai;

ka tatari ia ki te whakawā, nā, ko te tūkino;

ki te tika, nā, he auē.

Ka Whakahorihoria te Tūkino Pāpori

8 Auē te mate mō te hunga e hono ana i te whare ki te whare,

e whakapiri nei i te māra ki te māra,

ā, kore noa iho he wāhi,

ā, ka meinga koutou kia noho, ko koutou anake,

i waenganui i te whenua!

9 Ko tā Ihowā o ngā mano tēnei i hamumu ai ki ōku taringa:

"He pono, he tini ngā whare ka mokemoke,

tōna nunui, tōna ātaahua, ka noho tahanga kau.

10 Nō te mea kotahi tekau ngā eka o te māra wāina,

ka maea ake kotahi tonu te pāti;

i kī te homa i te purapura, ka maea ake kotahi te epa."

11 Auē te mate mō te hunga e maranga wawe ana i te ata

ki te whai i te wai kaha;

e kawe ana i te roa o te pō,

nāwai ā, ka tahuna e te wāina,

12 ko te hāpa me te hātere,

ko te timipera me te pūtōrino, ko te wāina,

kei ā rātou hākari ēnā, heoi, kāhore ā rātou mahara ki te mahi a Ihowā,

kāhore hoki he whakaaro ki te mahi a ōna ringa!

13 Koia i riro ai tōku iwi i te pārau, he kore mātauranga;

ko ō rātou tāngata ingoa nui hoki kua hemo i te kai,

ā, ko tō rātou mano tini kua pakapaka rawa i te matewai.

14 Nā reira te rēinga i whakanui ai i tōna hiahia,

i whewhera noa atu ai i tōna māngai;

ā, heke atu ana ki reira tō rātou korōria,

ō rātou mano tini, tō rātou whakahī,

me te tangata e whakamanamana ana i roto i a rātou.

15 Ka whakapikoa anō hoki te tangata ware,

ā, ka whakaititia te tangata nui,

ka whakahokia iho hoki ngā kanohi o te hunga whakakake.

16 Otiia ka whakanekehia ake a Ihowā o ngā mano i runga i te whakawā,

ka whakatapua anō te Atua, te Mea Tapu, i runga i te tika.

17 Ko reira ngā reme kai ai, ānō kei tō rātou wāhi,

ā, ka kainga e ngā mea haere noa ngā wāhi kua ururuatia o te hunga tetere.

18 Auē te mate mō te hunga e kūmea ana e rātou te hē ki ngā aho o te horihori,

te hara hoki me te mea ki te taura o te kāta;

19 e mea nei, "Kia hihiko ia,

kia hohoro tāna mahi,

kia kite ai mātou;

kia whakatata mai hoki,

kia tae mai te whakaaro o te Mea Tapu o Īharaira,

kia mōhio ai mātou!"

20 Auē te mate mō te hunga e mea nei ki te kino, he pai,

ki te pai hoki, he kino;

e mea nei i te pōuri hei mārama,

i te mārama hoki hei pōuri;

e mea nei i te kawa hei reka,

i te reka hei kawa!

21 Auē te mate mō te hunga he nui nei ō rātou whakaaro ki tā rātou titiro,

e mahara ana hoki he hunga mōhio rātou!

22 Auē te mate mō te hunga kaha ki te inu wāina,

he hunga uaua anō ki te whakaranu i te wai kaha;

23 e whakatika nei i tā te tangata hē, he whakaaro ki te utu;

e tango atu nei i te tika o te tangata tika.

Ka Poropititia te Whakaekenga a ngā Iwi Kē

24 Mō reira ka rite ki te kainga a te arero o te ahi i te kakau wīti,

ki te hinganga o te otaota maroke ki roto ki te mura;

ka pērā tō rātou pakiaka te pirau,

ka rere tō rātou puāwai ki runga, ānō he puehu;

mō rātou i whakakāhore ki te Ture a Ihowā o ngā mano,

i whakahāwea anō hoki ki te kupu a te Mea Tapu o Īharaira.

25 Nā reira te riri o Ihowā i mura ai ki tāna iwi,

ā, kua torona e ia tōna ringa ki te whawhai ki a rātou, ā, patua iho rātou e ia;

i ngāueue ngā maunga,

ā, ko ō rātou tinana mate me te mea he paru

i waenganui o ngā huarahi.

Nā, ahakoa tēnei katoa, kāhore tōna riri i te tahuri atu,

mārō tonu tōna ringa.

26 Ka whakaarahia anō hoki e ia he kara ki ngā iwi i tawhiti;

ka whiowhio anō ki a rātou ki te pito o te whenua.

Nanā, ka hohoro, ka tere tonu tā rātou haere mai!

27 E kore tētahi o rātou e ngenge, e kore e tapepa te waewae;

e kore tētahi e parangia, e kore e moe;

e kore te whītiki o ō rātou hope e mawheto,

e kore anō te here o ō rātou hū e motu;

28 ko ā rātou pere, koi tonu,

he piko katoa ā rātou kōpere;

ko ngā pāua o ō rātou hōiho ka kīia he matā,

ā, ko ō rātou wīra he āwhiowhio.

29 Ko tā rātou hāmama, koia anō kei tā te raiona,

ka hāmama rātou ānō he kūao raiona;

āe rā, ka ngengere rātou, ka hopukina tā rātou tūpāpaku,

kāwhakina tonutia atu, kāhore hoki he tangata hei whakaora.

30 Nā, ka hāmama rātou ki a rātou i taua rā,

me te mea ko te moana e haruru ana;

ā, ki te titiro tētahi ki te whenua –

nanā, he pōuri me te tuatea,

ā, kua pōuri te mārama i ōna kapua.