“Now you dwellers in Jerusalem and people of Judah,
    judge between me and my vineyard.(A)
What more could have been done for my vineyard
    than I have done for it?(B)
When I looked for good grapes,
    why did it yield only bad?(C)
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;(D)
I will break down its wall,(E)
    and it will be trampled.(F)
I will make it a wasteland,(G)
    neither pruned nor cultivated,
    and briers and thorns(H) will grow there.
I will command the clouds
    not to rain(I) on it.”

The vineyard(J) 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,(K) but saw bloodshed;
    for righteousness,(L) but heard cries of distress.(M)

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And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem, and men of Judah, judge, I pray you, betwixt me and my vineyard.

What could have been done more to my vineyard, that I have not done in it? wherefore, when I looked that it should bring forth grapes, brought it forth wild grapes?

And now go to; I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard: I will take away the hedge thereof, and it shall be eaten up; and break down the wall thereof, and it shall be trodden down:

And I will lay it waste: it shall not be pruned, nor digged; but there shall come up briers and thorns: I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it.

For the vineyard of the Lord of hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasant plant: and he looked for judgment, but behold oppression; for righteousness, but behold a cry.

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