² On that day:
A pleasant vineyard—sing about it!^(B)
3     I, the Lord, am its keeper;
    every moment I water it.
I guard it night and day
    so that no one can harm it;^(C)
4     I have no wrath.
If it gives me thorns and briers,
    I will march to battle against it.
    I will burn it up.^(D)
5 Or else let it cling to me for protection;
    let it make peace with me;
    let it make peace with me.^(E)

⁶ In days to come^[a] Jacob shall take root;
    Israel shall blossom and put forth shoots
    and fill the whole world with fruit.^(F)

⁷ Has he struck them down as he struck down those who struck them?
    Or have they been killed as their killers^[b] were killed?^(G)
8 By expulsion,^[c] by exile you struggled against them;
    with his fierce blast he removed them in the day of the east wind.^(H)
9 Therefore by this the guilt of Jacob will be expiated,
    and this will be the full fruit of the removal of his sin:
when he makes all the stones of the altars
    like chalkstones crushed to pieces;
    no sacred poles^[d] or incense altars will remain standing.^(I)
10 For the fortified city is solitary,
    a habitation deserted and forsaken, like the wilderness;
the calves graze there;
    there they lie down and strip its branches.^(J)
11 When its boughs are dry, they are broken;
    women come and make a fire of them.
For this is a people without understanding;
    therefore he who made them will not have compassion on them;
    he who formed them will show them no favor.^(K)