4 What more was there to do for my vineyardthat I haven’t done for it?When I expected it to grow good grapes,why did it grow rotten grapes?
5 Now let me tell you what I’m doing to my vineyard.I’m removing its hedge,so it will be destroyed.I’m breaking down its walls,so it will be trampled.
6 I’ll turn it into a ruin;it won’t be pruned or hoed,and thorns and thistles will grow up.I will command the clouds not to rain on it.
7 The vineyard of the Lord of heavenly forces is the house of Israel,and the people of Judah are the plantings in which God delighted.God expected justice, but there was bloodshed;righteousness, but there was a cry of distress!
8 Doom to those who acquire house after house,who annex field to field until there is no more space leftand only you live alone in the land.
9 I heard the Lord of heavenly forces say this:Many houses will become total ruins,large, fine houses, with no one living in them.
10 Ten acres of vineyardwill produce just one bath,and a homer of seedwill produce only an ephah.