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.
6. I will make it a waste;it shall not be pruned or hoed,and briers and thorns shall grow up; I will also command the cloudsthat they rain no rain upon it.
7. For the vineyard of the Lord of hostsis the house of Israel,and the men of Judahare his pleasant planting;and he looked for justice,but behold, bloodshed;for righteousness,but behold, an outcry!
8. Woe to those who join house to house,who add field to field,until there is no more room,and you are made to dwell alonein the midst of the land.