And seven  ¹women will grasp
One man in that day,
Saying, We will eat our own bread
And wear our own clothes;
Just let us bear your name;
Take away our reproach.

In  ¹that day the  ²Shoot of Jehovah will be beauty and glory, and the fruit of the earth, excellence and splendor, to those of Israel who have escaped.

And he who is left over in Zion and remains in Jerusalem will be called holy, everyone who has been written down in Jerusalem for life;

When the Lord has washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion and has cleansed away the bloodstains of Jerusalem from her midst, by the  ¹judging Spirit and the burning Spirit.

Jehovah will create over the entire region of Mount Zion and over all her convocations a cloud of smoke by day, and the brightness of a fiery flame by night; for the glory will be a  ¹canopy over all.

And there will be a tabernacle as a daytime shade from the heat and as a refuge and a cover from storm and rain.

Let me sing of my Beloved,
A song of my Beloved concerning His vineyard.
My Beloved had a vineyard
On a  ¹fertile hill.

And He dug it up and cleared away its stones,
And He planted it with the choicest vine.
Then He built a tower in the middle of it,
And hewed out a wine vat in it.
And He looked for it to produce grapes,
But it produced only wild grapes.

So then, you inhabitants of Jerusalem
And you men of Judah,
Judge between Me
And My vineyard.

What more could I have done for My vineyard
That I have not already done for it?
Why then, when I looked for it to produce grapes,
Did it produce only wild grapes?

And now I will make known to you
What I will now do to My vineyard:
I will remove its hedge, and it will be consumed;
I will break down its wall, and it will become a trampled place.

And I will make it a waste;
It will not be pruned, nor will it be hoed;
But thorns and thistles will come on it.
And I will command the clouds
Not to rain upon it.

For the vineyard of Jehovah of hosts is the house of Israel,
And the men of Judah, the plant of His good pleasure;
And He expected justice, but instead, bloodshed!
He expected righteousness, but instead, an outcry of distress!

Woe to those who join house to house,
Who lay field to field,
Till there is no place left,
And you dwell alone in the midst of the land!

In my ears Jehovah of hosts has sworn:
Many houses shall indeed become desolate;
Great ones and fine ones shall be without inhabitants.

For ten acres of vineyard will produce a mere  ¹bath of wine,
And a  ²homer of seed will produce an  ³ephah of grain.

Woe to those who rise early in the morning
That they may run after liquor,
To those who linger into the evening
That wine may inflame them!

Lyre and harp, tambourine and flute,
And wine are the essence of their banquets;
And they do not consider what has been done by Jehovah,
Nor do they regard the work of His hands.

Hence, my people go into exile
For lack of knowledge;
Their  ¹nobility become famished men,
And their multitudes, parched with thirst.

Hence, Sheol enlarges its appetite
And opens its mouth wide, without limit,
And Jerusalem's splendor descends, and her din
And her uproar and the jubilant within her.

Thus the ordinary man is humbled, and the man of distinction is abased;
And the eyes of the haughty are abased;

But Jehovah of hosts is exalted in judgment,
And the holy God  ¹shows Himself  ²holy in righteousness.

Then lambs will graze there as in their pasture,
And strangers will eat the wastelands of  ¹fat men.

Woe to those who draw iniquity with ropes of vanity,
And sin as with cart ropes;

Who say, He should hurry up;
He should hasten His work,
So that we may see it;
And the counsel of the Holy One of Israel
Should draw near and happen,
So that we may know it!

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!

Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes,
And prudent in their own sight!

Woe to those who are heroes in drinking wine,
And men of valor in mixing liquor;

Who acquit the criminal as a result of a bribe,
But refuse righteousness to the righteous!

Therefore as a tongue of fire consumes the stubble,
And the chaff sinks in flames,
Their root will be like decay,
And their bud will disappear like dust;
For they have rejected the instruction of Jehovah of hosts
And despised the speaking of the Holy One of Israel.

For this reason the anger of Jehovah burns against His people,
And He stretches out His hand over them and strikes them.
And the mountains quake, and their corpses are
Like garbage in the middle of the street.
In spite of all this His anger is not turned away;
Rather, His hand is still stretched out.

He also lifts up a standard to a distant  ¹nation,
And whistles to it from the ends of the earth;
And indeed it comes with swift speed.

None of them is weary, and none stumbles among them;
No one slumbers or sleeps;
And their belts are not loosened at their waists,
Nor are their sandal thongs broken.

The arrows of these are sharpened,
And all their bows are drawn;
The hooves of their horses are considered to be like flint,
And their chariot wheels like a whirlwind.

Their roar is like a lion's,
And they roar like young lions;
When they growl and seize prey,
They carry it away safe, and there is none to rescue it.

And they will growl over it in that day,
Like the roaring of the sea.
When one will look upon the land, indeed, there will be darkness and distress,
And the light will be darkened with its clouds.

In the year that King Uzziah died I saw the  ¹Lord sitting on a high and lofty throne, and the train of His  ²robe filled the temple.

Seraphim  ¹hovered over  ²Him, each having six wings: With two he covered his face, and with two he covered his feet, and with two he flew.

And one called to the other, saying:
 ¹Holy, holy, holy, Jehovah of hosts;
The whole earth is filled with His glory.

And the  ¹foundations of the threshold  ²shook at the voice of him who called, and the house was filled with  ²smoke.

Then I said,
Woe is me, for I am finished!
For I am a man of  ¹unclean lips,
And in the midst of a people of unclean lips I dwell;
Yet my eyes have seen the King, Jehovah of hosts.

Then one of the seraphim flew to me with an  ¹ember in his hand, which he had taken from the altar with a pair of tongs.

And he touched my mouth with it and said,
Now that this has touched your lips,
Your iniquity is taken away, and your sin is  ¹purged.

Then I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, Whom shall  ¹I send? Who will go for Us? And I said, Here am I; send me.

And He said to me,  ¹Go and say to this people,
Hear indeed, but do not perceive;
And see indeed, but do not understand.

Make the heart of this people numb;
Dull their ears,
And seal their eyes;
Lest they see with their eyes and hear with their ears,
And their heart perceive and return, and they are  ¹healed.

And I said, For how long, Lord? And He said,
Until cities lie devastated,
Without inhabitants,
And houses are without people,
And the land is devastated and a waste;

And Jehovah has sent men far away from it,
And desolate places abound in the midst of the land.

But there will still be a tenth part in it;
And it in turn is to be burned
Like a terebinth or an oak,
Whose stump remains after its felling;
Its stump will be a holy seed.