And they please themselves in the brood of aliens.

7 Their land also is full of silver and gold, Neither is there any end of their treasures; Their land also is full of horses,

Neither is there any end of their chariots. 8 Their land also is full of idols;

Every one worshippeth the work of his own hands,

That which his own fingers have made. 9 And man boweth down,

And man lowereth himself;

And Thou canst not bear with them.

10 Enter into the rock,

And hide thee in the dust,

From before the terror of the LORD,
And from the glory of His majesty.

11 The lofty looks of man shall be brought low, And the haughtiness of men shall be bowed down,

And the LORD alone shall be exalted in that day.

12 For the LORD of hosts hath a day

Upon all that is proud and lofty,

And upon all that is lifted up, and it shall be brought low;

13 And upon all the cedars of Lebanon That are high and lifted up,

And upon all the oaks of Bashan; 14 And upon all the high mountains, And upon all the hills that are lifted up; 15 And upon every lofty tower,

And upon every fortified wall;

16 And upon all the ships of Tarshish,

And upon all delightful imagery.

17 And the loftiness of man shall be bowed

down,

And the haughtiness of men shall be brought low;

And the LORD alone shall be exalted in that

day.

18 And the idols shall utterly pass away.

19 And men shall go into the caves of the rocks, And into the holes of the earth,

From before the terror of the LORD,
And from the glory of His majesty,
When He ariseth to shake mightily the earth.
20 In that day a man shall cast away

His idols of silver, and his idols of gold,
Which they made for themselves to worship,
To the moles and to the bats;

21 To go into the clefts of the rocks,
And into the crevices of the crags,
From before the terror of the LORD,
And from the glory of His majesty,

When He ariseth to shake mightily the earth.

22 Cease ye from man, in whose nostrils is a breath;

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For how little is he to be accounted!

Parable of the Vineyard

Let me sing of my well-beloved,

A song of my beloved touching his vineyard.

My well-beloved had a vineyard

In a very fruitful hill;

2 And he digged it, and cleared it of stones,

And planted it with the choicest vine,
And built a tower in the midst of it,
And also hewed out a vat 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 come, I will tell you
What I will do to my vineyard:
I will take away the hedge thereof,
And it shall be eaten up;

I will break down the fence thereof,
And it shall be trodden down;

6 And I will lay it waste:

It shall not be pruned nor hoed,

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 LORD of hosts is the house of Israel,

And the men of Judah the plant of His delight;

And He looked for justice, but behold violence;

For righteousness, but behold a cry.

8 Woe unto them that join house to house, That lay field to field,

Till there be no room, and ye be made to dwell

Alone in the midst of the land!

9 In mine ears said the LORD of hosts:

Of a truth many houses shall be desolate, Even great and fair, without inhabitant. 10 For ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath,

And the seed of a homer shall yield an ephah.

11 Woe unto them that rise up early in the morning,

That they may follow strong drink;

That tarry late into the night,

Till wine inflame them!

12 And the harp and the psaltery, the tabret and the pipe,

And wine, are in their feasts;

But they regard not the work of the LORD, Neither have they considered the operation of His hands.

13 Therefore My people are gone into captivity, For want of knowledge;

And their honourable men are famished, And their multitude are parched with thirst. 14 Therefore the nether-world hath enlarged her desire,

And opened her mouth without measure;

And down goeth their glory, and their tumult, and their uproar,

And he that rejoiceth among them. 15 And man is bowed down,

And man is humbled,

And the eyes of the lofty are humbled; 16 But the LORD of hosts is exalted through justice,

And God the Holy One is sanctified through righteousness.

17 Then shall the lambs feed as in their pasture,

And the waste places of the fat ones shall wanderers eat.

18 Woe unto them that draw iniquity with cords of vanity,

And sin as it were with a cart rope,

19 That say: 'Let Him make speed, let Him Ihasten His work,

That we may see it;

And let the counsel of the Holy One of
Israel draw nigh and come,

That we may know it!'

20 Woe unto them that call evil good,

And good evil;

That change darkness into light,

And light into darkness;

That change bitter into sweet,

And sweet into bitter!

21 Woe unto them that are wise in their own

eyes,

And prudent in their own sight!