MLV(i)
1 Let me sing for my well-beloved a song of my beloved concerning his vineyard. My well-beloved had a vineyard in a very fruitful hill.
2 And he dug it and gathered out the stones of it and planted it with the choicest vine and built a tower in the midst of it and also hewed out a winepress in it. And he looked that it should bring forth grapes and it brought out wild grapes.
3 And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem and men of Judah, judge, I beseech you*, between me and my vineyard. 4 What could have been done more to my vineyard that I have not done in it? Why, when I looked that it should bring forth grapes, it brought out wild grapes?
5 And now I will tell you* what I will do to my vineyard. I will take away the hedge of it and it will be eaten up. I will break down the wall of it and it will be trodden down. 6 And I will lay it waste. It will not be pruned nor hoed, but there will come up briers and thorns. I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it.
7 For the vineyard of Jehovah 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.
8 Woe to those who join house to house, who lay field to field, till there is no room and you* are made to dwell alone in the midst of the land! 9 In my ears says Jehovah of hosts, of a truth many houses will be desolate, even great and fair, without inhabitant. 10 For ten acres of vineyard will yield one 9-gallon container and a homer of seed will yield but an ephah.
3 And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem and men of Judah, judge, I beseech you*, between me and my vineyard. 4 What could have been done more to my vineyard that I have not done in it? Why, when I looked that it should bring forth grapes, it brought out wild grapes?
5 And now I will tell you* what I will do to my vineyard. I will take away the hedge of it and it will be eaten up. I will break down the wall of it and it will be trodden down. 6 And I will lay it waste. It will not be pruned nor hoed, but there will come up briers and thorns. I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it.
7 For the vineyard of Jehovah 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.
8 Woe to those who join house to house, who lay field to field, till there is no room and you* are made to dwell alone in the midst of the land! 9 In my ears says Jehovah of hosts, of a truth many houses will be desolate, even great and fair, without inhabitant. 10 For ten acres of vineyard will yield one 9-gallon container and a homer of seed will yield but an ephah.