³ “Now you dwellers in Jerusalem and people of Judah,
    judge between me and my vineyard.^(F)
4 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)
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)
I will break down its wall,^(J)
    and it will be trampled.^(K)
6 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.”

⁷ 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)

¹¹ Woe^(A) to those who rise early in the morning
    to run after their drinks,
who stay up late at night
    till they are inflamed with wine.^(B)
12 They have harps and lyres at their banquets,
    pipes^(C) and timbrels^(D) and wine,
but they have no regard^(E) for the deeds of the Lord,
    no respect for the work of his hands.^(F)
13 Therefore my people will go into exile^(G)
    for lack of understanding;^(H)
those of high rank^(I) will die of hunger
    and the common people will be parched with thirst.^(J)

¹⁵ So people will be brought low^(A)
    and everyone humbled,^(B)
    the eyes of the arrogant^(C) humbled.
¹⁶ But the Lord Almighty will be exalted^(D) by his justice,^(E)
    and the holy God will be proved holy^(F) by his righteous acts.

²⁰ Woe^(A) to those who call evil good^(B)
    and good evil,^(C)
who put darkness for light
    and light for darkness,^(D)
who put bitter for sweet
    and sweet for bitter.^(E)

²¹ Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes^(F)
    and clever in their own sight.

²² Woe to those who are heroes at drinking wine^(G)
    and champions at mixing drinks,^(H)
23 who acquit the guilty for a bribe,^(I)
    but deny justice^(J) to the innocent.^(K)
24 Therefore, as tongues of fire^(L) lick up straw^(M)
    and as dry grass sinks down in the flames,
so their roots will decay^(N)
    and their flowers blow away like dust;^(O)
for they have rejected the law of the Lord Almighty
    and spurned the word^(P) of the Holy One^(Q) of Israel.