4. What more could be done for my vineyardthat I did not do?Why, when I waited for the crop of grapes,did it yield rotten grapes?
5. Now, I will let you knowwhat I am going to do to my vineyard:Take away its hedge, give it to grazing,break through its wall, let it be trampled!
6. Yes, I will make it a ruin:it shall not be pruned or hoed,but will be overgrown with thorns and briers;I will command the cloudsnot to rain upon it.
7. The vineyard of the Lord of hosts is the house of Israel,the people of Judah, his cherished plant;He waited for judgment, but see, bloodshed!for justice, but hark, the outcry!
8. Ah! Those who join house to house,who connect field with field,Until no space remains, and you alone dwellin the midst of the land!
9. In my hearing the Lord of hosts has sworn:Many houses shall be in ruins,houses large and fine, with nobody living there.
10. Ten acres of vineyardshall yield but one bath,And a homer of seedshall yield but an ephah.
11. Ah! Those who rise early in the morningin pursuit of strong drink,lingering lateinflamed by wine,
12. Banqueting on wine with harp and lyre,timbrel and flute,But the deed of the Lord they do not regard,the work of his hands they do not see!