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

¹⁴ Turn again, O God of hosts!
    ^(H)Look down from heaven, and see;
have regard for this vine,
¹⁵     the stock that your right hand planted,
    and for the son whom you made strong for yourself.
¹⁶ They have ^(I)burned it with fire; they have ^(J)cut it down;
    may they perish at ^(K)the rebuke of your face!
¹⁷ But ^(L)let your hand be on the man of your right hand,
    the son of man whom you have made strong for yourself!
¹⁸ Then we shall not turn back from you;
    ^(M)give us life, and we will call upon your name!

^19 (N)Restore us, O Lord God of hosts!
    Let your face shine, that we may be saved!

⁶ For ^(F)a man will take hold of his brother
    in the house of his father, saying:
“You have a cloak;
    you shall be our leader,
and this heap of ruins
    shall be under your rule”;
⁷ in that day he will speak out, saying:
“I will not be a ^(G)healer;^[c]
    in my house there is neither bread nor cloak;
you shall not make me
    leader of the people.”
⁸ For Jerusalem has stumbled,
    and Judah has fallen,
because their ^(H)speech and their deeds are against the Lord,
    ^(I)defying his glorious presence.^[d]

⁹ For the look on their faces bears witness against them;
    they proclaim their sin ^(J)like Sodom;
    they do not hide it.
Woe to them!
    ^(K)For they have brought evil on themselves.
^10 (L)Tell the righteous that it shall be well with them,
    ^(M)for they shall eat the fruit of their deeds.
^11 (N)Woe to the wicked! It shall be ill with him,
    for what his hands have dealt out shall be done to him.
¹² My people—^(O)infants are their oppressors,
    and women rule over them.
O my people, ^(P)your guides mislead you
    and they have swallowed up^[e] the course of your paths.

¹³ The Lord ^(Q)has taken his place to contend;
    he stands to judge peoples.
¹⁴ The Lord will enter into judgment
    with the ^(R)elders and princes of his people:
“It is you who ^(S)have devoured^[f] the vineyard,
    ^(T)the spoil of the poor is in your houses.
¹⁵ What do you mean by ^(U)crushing my people,
    by grinding the face of the poor?”
declares the Lord God of hosts.

¹⁶ The Lord said:
^(V)Because ^(W)the daughters of Zion are haughty
    and walk with outstretched necks,
    glancing wantonly with their eyes,
mincing along as they go,
    ^(X)tinkling with their feet,
¹⁷ therefore the Lord ^(Y)will strike with a scab
    the heads of ^(Z)the daughters of Zion,
    and the Lord will lay bare their secret parts.

^(K)“Yet a little while,
    and ^(L)the coming one will come and will not delay;
^38 (M)but my righteous one shall live by faith,
    and if he shrinks back,
my soul has no pleasure in him.”