Isaiah 5:4-7

Like the *vineyard in the story, God’s special people have been a bitter disappointment to him. God now removes all his protection and care. The result is terrible.

*Self-centred people

v8 *Woe to you who build more and more houses and buy more and more fields! No room will remain for anybody else because you will possess the whole land for yourselves. v9 Then Isaiah heard the *Lord (commander of heaven’s armies) make a serious promise. He will ruin many houses and he will empty large and beautiful homes. v10 Ten fields of *vines will yield only one barrel of juice. And whatever quantity of seed that the farmer sows will produce only one tenth of the quantity of grain. v11 *Woe to those who get up early in the morning in a hurry to drink beer! And then they continue to drink until late at night. By then they have become drunks. v12 They are so concentrating on their drinks and musical entertainment that their understanding (mind) is dull (unaware). They do not care about the *Lord. So they do not realise what he is doing.