1. Let me sing for my belovedmy love song concerning his vineyard:My beloved had a vineyardon a very fertile hill.
2. He dug it and cleared it of stones,and planted it with choice vines;he built a watchtower in the midst of it,and hewed out a wine vat in it;and he looked for it to yield grapes,but it yielded wild grapes.
3. And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalemand men of Judah,judge between me and my vineyard.
4. What more was there to do for my vineyard,that I have not done in it? When I looked for it to yield grapes,why did it yield wild grapes?
5. And now I will tell youwhat I will do to my vineyard.I will remove its hedge,and it shall be devoured; I will break down its wall,and it shall be trampled down.