4 What could have been done more to my vineyard, that I have not done in it?Why, when I looked for it to yield grapes, did it yield wild grapes?
5 Now I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard.I will take away its hedge, and it will be eaten up.I will break down its wall, and it will be trampled down.
6 I will lay it a wasteland.It won’t be pruned nor hoed,but it will grow briers and thorns.I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain on it.”
7 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 justice, but, behold, oppression;for righteousness, but, behold, a cry of distress.
8 Woe to those who join house to house,who lay field to field, until there is no room,and you are made to dwell alone in the middle of the land!
9 In my ears, the Lord of Hosts says: “Surely many houses will be desolate,even great and beautiful, unoccupied.
10 For ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath,and a homer of seed shall yield an efah.”