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Isaiah 16:10

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

Joy and rejoicing  have been removed from the orchard; no one is singing or shouting for joy in the vineyards. No one tramples grapes  in the winepresses. I have put an end to the shouting.

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Gladness and celebration are taken from the fertile field and from the land of Moab. I have stopped the flow of wine from the winepresses; no one will tread with shouts of joy. The shouting is not a shout of joy.


There will be wailing in all the vineyards, for I will pass among you. The Lord has spoken.


Therefore, because you trample on the poor and exact a grain tax from him, you will never live in the houses of cut stone you have built; you will never drink the wine from the lush vineyards you have planted.


So they went out to the countryside and harvested grapes from their vineyards. They trampled the grapes and held a celebration.  Then they went to the house of their god, and as they ate and drank, they cursed Abimelech.


Their wealth will become plunder and their houses a ruin. They will build houses but never live in them, plant vineyards but never drink their wine.


In a little more than a year you overconfident ones will shudder, for the grapes will fail and the harvest will not come.


They crush olives in their presses; they tread the winepresses, but go thirsty.


In the streets they cry  for wine. All joy grows dark; earth’s rejoicing goes into exile.


The grapevine is dried up, and the fig tree is withered; the pomegranate,  the date palm,  and the apple   – all the trees of the orchard #– #have withered. Indeed, human joy has dried up.


Look, the days are coming – this is the  Lord’s declaration – when the ploughman will overtake the reaper, and the one who treads grapes the sower of seed. The mountains will drip with sweet wine, and all the hills will flow with it.


Doom  has come on you, inhabitants of the land. The time has come; the day is near. There will be panic on the mountains and not celebration.





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