1. Let me sing for my loved onea love song for his vineyard.My loved one had a vineyard on a fertile hillside.
2. He dug it,cleared away its stones,planted it with excellent vines,built a tower inside it,and dug out a wine vat in it.He expected it to grow good grapes—but it grew rotten grapes.
3. So now, you who live in Jerusalem, you people of Judah,judge between me and my vineyard:
4. What more was there to do for my vineyardthat I haven’t done for it?When I expected it to grow good grapes,why did it grow rotten grapes?
5. Now let me tell you what I’m doing to my vineyard.I’m removing its hedge,so it will be destroyed.I’m breaking down its walls,so it will be trampled.
6. I’ll turn it into a ruin;it won’t be pruned or hoed,and thorns and thistles will grow up.I will command the clouds not to rain on it.