OLD TESTAMENT · VERSE 12

Isaiah 5:12

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

but they don’t respect the work of the LORD,

neither have they considered the operation of his hands.

THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE

Isaiah 5:12 in context

Isaiah 5:9–15

In my ears, the LORD of Armies says: “Surely many houses will be desolate,

even great and beautiful, unoccupied.

For ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath,

and a homer of seed shall yield an ephah.”

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!

Selected verse

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

but they don’t respect the work of the LORD,

neither have they considered the operation of his hands.

Therefore my people go into captivity for lack of knowledge.

Their honorable men are famished,

and their multitudes are parched with thirst.

Therefore Sheol 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.

So man is brought low,

mankind is humbled,

and the eyes of the arrogant ones are humbled;

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