Isaiah 5:1-4 (New International Version)

Isaiah 5

The Song of the Vineyard

 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?