葡萄园之歌

我要为我所爱的歌唱,唱一首有关他葡萄园的歌:

我所爱的在肥美的山冈上有一个葡萄园。
他松土,清除石头,
栽种了上好的葡萄,
在园中建了一座瞭望塔,
凿了榨酒池。
他期望收获好葡萄,
得到的却是坏葡萄。

他说,“耶路撒冷和犹大的居民啊,
请你们在我和葡萄园之间评评理。
我不遗余力地料理葡萄园,
希望得到好葡萄,
为什么得到的只是坏葡萄呢?

“现在,我告诉你们我会怎样处理这葡萄园,
我要除去篱笆,任它被毁坏;
我要拆毁围墙,任它被践踏。
我不再修剪,不再锄地,
也不再降雨,
任由它荒废,长满荆棘和蒺藜。”

万军之耶和华的葡萄园就是以色列,
祂所喜爱的葡萄树就是犹大人。
祂希望看到公平,
却只看见杀戮;
指望看到公义,
却只听见冤声。

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The Song of the Vineyard

I will sing for the one I love
    a song about his vineyard:(A)
My loved one had a vineyard
    on a fertile hillside.
He dug it up and cleared it of stones
    and planted it with the choicest vines.(B)
He built a watchtower(C) in it
    and cut out a winepress(D) as well.
Then he looked for a crop of good grapes,
    but it yielded only bad fruit.(E)

“Now you dwellers in Jerusalem and people of Judah,
    judge between me and my vineyard.(F)
What more could have been done for my vineyard
    than I have done for it?(G)
When I looked for good grapes,
    why did it yield only bad?(H)
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)
I will break down its wall,(J)
    and it will be trampled.(K)
I will make it a wasteland,(L)
    neither pruned nor cultivated,
    and briers and thorns(M) will grow there.
I will command the clouds
    not to rain(N) on it.”

The vineyard(O) of the Lord Almighty
    is the nation of Israel,
and the people of Judah
    are the vines he delighted in.
And he looked for justice,(P) but saw bloodshed;
    for righteousness,(Q) but heard cries of distress.(R)

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