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He dug up the soil and removed its stones.
    He planted the very best vines in it.
He built a lookout tower there.
    He also cut out a winepress for it.
Then he kept looking for a crop of good grapes.
    But the vineyard produced only bad fruit.

So the Lord said, “People of Jerusalem and Judah,
    you be the judge between me and my vineyard.
What more could I have done for my vineyard?
    I did everything I could.
I kept looking for a crop of good grapes.
    So why did it produce only bad ones?

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