3. Now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem and men of Judah,judge between My vineyard and Me.
4. What more could have been done to My vineyardthat I have not done in it?Why, when I expected it to bring forth good grapes,did it bring forth wild grapes?
5. So now I will tell youwhat I will do to My vineyard:I will take away its hedge,and it shall be consumed;I will break down its wall,and it shall be trodden down.
6. And I will lay it waste:It shall not be pruned or dug,but briers and thorns shall come up.I will also command the cloudsthat they rain no rain on it.
7. For the vineyard of the Lord of Hostsis the house of Israel,and the men of JudahHis pleasant plant.Thus He looked for justice, but saw oppression;for righteousness, but heard a cry.
8. Woe to those who join house to house,who add field to field,until there is no more spacewhere they may live alone in the midst of the land!
9. In my ears the Lord of Hosts said: Truly, many houses shall be desolate,even great and beautiful, without inhabitants.
10. For ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath,and the homer of seed shall yield an ephah.
11. Woe to those who rise up early in the morningthat they may pursue strong drink;who continue late in the eveninguntil wine inflames them!
12. The lyre and the harp, the tambourine and pipe,and wine are in their feasts;but they do not regard the deeds of the Lord,or consider the work of His hands.
13. Therefore My people go into captivitybecause they have no knowledge;and their honorable men are famished,and their multitude dried up with thirst.
14. Therefore Sheol has enlarged itselfand opened its mouth without measure;so their glory, and their multitude, and their pomp,and he who rejoices shall descend into it.