1 I will sing for the one I love
a song about his vineyard:
My loved one had a vineyard
on a fertile hillside. |
2 He dug it up and cleared it of stones
and planted it with the choicest vines.
He built a watchtower in it
and cut out a winepress as well.
Then he looked for a crop of good grapes,
but it yielded only bad fruit. |
3 "Now you dwellers in Jerusalem and men of Judah,
judge between me and my vineyard. |
4 What more could have been done for my vineyard
than I have done for it?
When I looked for good grapes,
why did it yield only bad? |
5 Now I will tell you
what I am going to do to my vineyard:
I will take away its hedge,
and it will be destroyed;
I will break down its wall,
and it will be trampled. |
6 I will make it a wasteland,
neither pruned nor cultivated,
and briers and thorns will grow there.
I will command the clouds
not to rain on it." |
7 The vineyard of the LORD Almighty
is the house of Israel,
and the men of Judah
are the garden of his delight.
And he looked for justice, but saw bloodshed;
for righteousness, but heard cries of distress. |
