² On that day:
A pleasant vineyard—sing about it!^(A)
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;^(B)

⁸ You brought a vine out of Egypt;
    you drove out the nations and planted it.^(A)
9 You cleared the ground for it;
    it took deep root and filled the land.^(B)
10 The mountains were covered with its shade,
    the mighty cedars with its branches;
¹¹ it sent out its branches to the sea
    and its shoots to the River.
¹² Why then have you broken down its walls,
    so that all who pass along the way pluck its fruit?^(C)
13 The boar from the forest ravages it,
    and all that move in the field feed on it.^(D)

¹⁴ Turn again, O God of hosts;
    look down from heaven and see;
have regard for this vine,^(E)
15     the stock that your right hand planted.^[a]
16 It has been burned with fire; it has been cut down;
    may they perish at the rebuke of your countenance.^(F)
17 But let your hand be upon the one at your right hand,
    the one whom you made strong for yourself.^(G)
18 Then we will never turn back from you;
    give us life, and we will call on your name.^(H)

¹⁹ Restore us, O Lord God of hosts;
    let your face shine, that we may be saved.

³ And now, inhabitants of Jerusalem
    and people of Judah,
judge between me
    and my vineyard.^(C)
4 What more was there to do for my vineyard
    that I have not done in it?
When I expected it to yield grapes,
    why did it yield rotten grapes?^(D)

⁵ And now I will tell you
    what I will do to my vineyard.
I will remove its hedge,
    and it shall be devoured;
I will break down its wall,
    and it shall be trampled down.^(E)
6 I will make it a wasteland;
    it shall not be pruned or hoed,
    and it shall be overgrown with briers and thorns;
I will also command the clouds
    that they rain no rain upon it.^(F)

⁷ For the vineyard of the Lord of hosts
    is the house of Israel,
and the people of Judah
    are his cherished garden;
he expected justice
    but saw bloodshed;
righteousness
    but heard a cry!^(G)