6 I will make it a wasteland.It will never be pruned or hoed.Thorns and weeds will grow in it,and I will command the clouds not to rain on it.
7 The vineyard of the Lord of Armies is the nation of Israel,and the people of Judah are the garden of his delight.He hoped for justice but saw only slaughter,for righteousness but heard only cries of distress.
8 How horrible it will be for youwho acquire house after house and buy field after fielduntil there’s nothing leftand you have to live by yourself in the land.
9 With my own ears I heard the Lord of Armies say,“Many houses will become empty.Large, beautiful houses will be without people to live in them.
10 A ten-acre vineyard will produce only six gallons of wine,and two quarts of seed will produce only four quarts of grain.”
11 How horrible it will be for thosewho get up early to look for a drink,who sit up late until they are drunk from wine.
12 At their feasts there are lyres and harps,tambourines and flutes, and wine.Yet, they don’t pay attention to what the Lord is doingor see what his hands have done.