5. And now let me tell you what I myself am about to do to my vineyard. I will remove its hedge, and it shall become a devastation. I will break down its wall, and it shall become a trampling.
6. And I will make it a wasteland; it shall not be pruned and hoed, and it shall be overgrown with briers and thornbushes. And concerning the clouds, I will command them not to send rain down upon it.
7. For the vineyard of Yahweh of hosts is the house of Israel, and the man of Judah is the plantation of his delight. And he waited for justice, but look! Bloodshed! For righteousness, but look! A cry of distress!
8. Ah! Those who join house with house, they join field together with field until there is no place and you are caused to dwell alone in the midst of the land.
9. Yahweh of hosts said in my ears: Surely many houses shall become a desolation, large and beautiful ones without inhabitant.
10. For ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and the seed of a homer will yield an ephah.
11. Ah! Those who rise early in the morning, they pursue strong drink. Those who linger in the evening, wine inflames them.
12. And there will be lyre and harp, tambourine and flute, and wine at their feasts, but they do not look at the deeds of Yahweh, and they do not see the work of his hands.
13. Therefore my people will go into exile without knowledge, and their nobles will be men of hunger, and their multitude is parched with thirst.