Isaias

V. 1 Now will I sing for my beloved a song of my loved one for my vineyard. My beloved hath a vineyard on a hill-top, in a fertile place;

2 And I set a hedge around it, and fenced it, and planted a vine of Sorek, and built a tower in the midst of it, and digged a wine-fat therein; and I waited for it to bring forth a cluster of grapes, and it brought forth thorns.

3 And now, man of Judah, and ye inhabitants of Jerusalem, judge ye betwixt me and my vineyard.

4 What shall I do yet for my vineyard, that I have not done for it? because I waited for it to bring forth a cluster of grapes, but it brought forth thorns.

5 But now I will declare to you what I will do to my vineyard; I will take away the hedge thereof, and it shall be plundered; and destroy the wall thereof, and it shall be trodden down;

6 And I will abandon my vineyard, and it shall not be pruned, nor digged; and there shall come up into it thorns, as into a waste place; and I will command the clouds, to shower no rain upon it.