1. Listen while I sing you this song,a song of my friend and his vineyard:My friend had a vineyardon a very fertile hill.
2. He dug the soil and cleared it of stones;he planted the finest vines.He built a tower to guard them,dug a pit for treading the grapes.He waited for the grapes to ripen,but every grape was sour.
3. So now my friend says, “You people who live in Jerusalem and Judah, judge between my vineyard and me.
4. Is there anything I failed to do for it? Then why did it produce sour grapes and not the good grapes I expected?
5. “This is what I am going to do to my vineyard; I will take away the hedge round it, break down the wall that protects it, and let wild animals eat it and trample it down.