4 What more could have been done to My vineyardthat I have not done in it?Why, when I expected it to bring forth good grapes,did it bring forth wild grapes?
5 So now I will tell youwhat I will do to My vineyard:I will take away its hedge,and it shall be consumed;I will break down its wall,and it shall be trodden down.
6 And I will lay it waste:It shall not be pruned or dug,but briers and thorns shall come up.I will also command the cloudsthat they rain no rain on it.
7 For the vineyard of the Lord of Hostsis the house of Israel,and the men of JudahHis pleasant plant.Thus He looked for justice, but saw oppression;for righteousness, but heard a cry.
8 Woe to those who join house to house,who add field to field,until there is no more spacewhere they may live alone in the midst of the land!
9 In my ears the Lord of Hosts said: Truly, many houses shall be desolate,even great and beautiful, without inhabitants.
10 For ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath,and the homer of seed shall yield an ephah.