Now will I sing to my wellbeloved a song of my beloved concerning his vineyard. My wellbeloved had a vineyard in a very fruitful hill:

and he dug it, and cleared away its stones, and planted it with the choicest vine, and built a tower in the midst of it, and also hewed out a wine vat in it: and he looked that it should bring forth good grapes, but it brought forth bad grapes.

And now, O inhabitant of Yerushalayim, and man of Yehuda, judge, I pray you, between me and my vineyard.

What could have been done more to my vineyard, that I have not done it? why was it, when I looked that it should bring forth good grapes, that it brought forth bad grapes?

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

and I will lay it waste: it shall be neither pruned, nor hoed; but there shall come up briers and thorns: I will also command the clouds that they drop no rain upon it.

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

Woe to them that join house to house, that lay field to field till there is no room, that you may dwell alone in the midst of the earth!

In my ears said the Lord of hosts, Of a truth many houses shall be desolate, great and fair, without inhabitant.

For ten acres of vineyard shall yield the measure of a bat, and the seed of a ĥomer shall yield one efa.

Woe to them that rise up early in the morning, that they may follow strong drink; that continue until night, till wine inflame them!

And the lyre, and the lute, the tambourine, and pipe, and wine, are in their feasts: but they regard not the work of the Lord, neither consider the operation of his hands.

Therefore my people are gone into captivity, because they have no knowledge: and their honourable men are famished, and their multitude dried up with thirst.

Therefore She᾽ol has enlarged herself, and opened her mouth without measure: and their glory, and their multitude, and their pomp, and he that is joyful, shall go down into it.

And the mean man shall be brought down, and the mighty man shall be humbled, and the eyes of the lofty shall be brought low.

But the Lord of hosts shall be exalted in the judgment, and God that is holy shall be sanctified in righteousness.

Then shall the lambs feed as in their pasture, and fat ones and strangers shall feed in the ruins.

Woe to them that draw iniquity with cords of vanity, and sin as it were with a cart rope:

that say, Let him make speed, and hasten his work, that we may see it: and let the counsel of the Holy One of Yisra᾽el draw near and come, that we may know it!

Woe to them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!

Woe to them that are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight!

Woe to them that are mighty to drink wine, and warriors to mingle strong drink:

who justify the wicked for a bribe, and take away the righteousness of the righteous from him!

Therefore as the fire devours the stubble, and as the chaff is consumed on the flame, so their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust: because they have cast away the Tora of the Lord of hosts, and despised the word of the Holy One of Yisra᾽el.

Therefore the anger of the Lord burns against his people, and he has stretched out his hand against them, and has smitten them; and the hills did tremble, and their dead bodies, were as refuse in the midst of the streets. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.

And he will lift up a banner to the nations from far, and will whistle to them from the ends of the earth: and, behold, they shall come with speed swiftly:

none shall be weary or stumble among them; none shall slumber or sleep; neither shall the girdle of their loins be loosed, nor the latchet of their shoes be broken:

whose arrows are sharp, and all their bows bent, their horses’ hoofs shall be counted like flint, and their wheels like the whirlwind:

their roaring shall be like a lion, they shall shout and roar like young lions: and shall lay hold of the prey, and carry it away safe, and none shall deliver it.

And in that day they shall roar against them like the roaring of the sea: and if one look to the land, behold narrow darkness: the light also is darkened in its heavens.