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1I will sing for my beloved[#Ps 80.8; Mt 21.33; Mk 12.1; Lk 20.9]
my love song concerning his vineyard:
My beloved had a vineyard
on a very fertile hill.
2He dug it and cleared it of stones[#Jer 2.21; Mt 21.19; Mk 11.13; Lk 13.6]
and planted it with choice vines;
he built a watchtower in the midst of it
and hewed out a wine vat in it;
he expected it to yield grapes,
but it yielded rotten grapes.
3And now, inhabitants of Jerusalem[#Mt 21.40]
and people of Judah,
judge between me
and my vineyard.
4What more was there to do for my vineyard[#Mt 23.37]
that I have not done in it?
When I expected it to yield grapes,
why did it yield rotten grapes?
5And now I will tell you[#Ps 80.12; 89.40; Isa 6.13; 10.6; Lk 21.24; Rev 11.2]
what I will do to my vineyard.
I will remove its hedge,
and it shall be devoured;
I will break down its wall,
and it shall be trampled down.
6I will make it a wasteland;[#1 Kings 8.35; Isa 24.1, 3; Heb 6.8]
it shall not be pruned or hoed,
and it shall be overgrown with briers and thorns;
I will also command the clouds
that they rain no rain upon it.
7For the vineyard of the Lord of hosts[#Ps 80.8–11; Isa 3.14, 15]
is the house of Israel,
and the people of Judah
are his cherished garden;
he expected justice
but saw bloodshed;
righteousness
but heard a cry!
8Woe to those who join house to house,[#Mic 2.2]
who add field to field,
until there is room for no one,
and you are left to live alone
in the midst of the land!
9The Lord of hosts has sworn in my hearing:[#Isa 6.11, 12; 22.14]
Surely many houses shall be desolate,
large and beautiful houses, without inhabitant.
10For ten acres of vineyard shall yield but one bath,[#Isa 7.23; Ezek 45.11]
and a homer of seed shall yield a mere ephah.
11Woe to those who rise early in the morning[#Prov 23.29, 30; Eccl 10.16]
in pursuit of strong drink,
who linger in the evening
to be inflamed by wine,
12whose feasts consist of lyre and harp,[#Job 34.27; Ps 28.5; Am 6.5, 6]
tambourine and flute and wine,
but who do not regard the deeds of the Lord
or see the work of his hands!
13Therefore my people go into exile for lack of knowledge;[#Isa 1.3; 3.3; 9.14, 15; Hos 4.6]
their nobles are dying of hunger,
and their multitude is parched with thirst.
14Therefore Sheol has enlarged its appetite[#Num 16.30–34; Ps 141.7; Prov 30.16]
and opened its mouth beyond measure;
the nobility of Jerusalem and her multitude go down,
her throng and all who exult in her.
15People are bowed down, everyone is brought low,[#Isa 2.9, 11]
and the eyes of the haughty are humbled.
16But the Lord of hosts is exalted by justice,[#Isa 2.11, 17; 8.13; 29.23]
and the Holy God shows himself holy by righteousness.
17Then the lambs shall graze as in their pasture;
fatted calves and kids shall feed among the ruins.
18Woe to those who drag iniquity along with cords of falsehood,[#Isa 59.4–8]
who drag sin along as with cart ropes,
19who say, “Let him make haste;[#Ezek 12.22; 2 Pet 3.3, 4]
let him speed his work
that we may see it;
let the plan of the Holy One of Israel hasten to fulfillment,
that we may know it!”
20Woe to those who call evil good[#Prov 17.15; Mt 6.22, 23; Lk 11.34, 35]
and good evil,
who put darkness for light
and light for darkness,
who put bitter for sweet
and sweet for bitter!
21Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes[#Rom 12.16]
and shrewd in their own sight!
22Woe to those who are heroes in drinking wine[#v 11]
and valiant at mixing drink,
23who acquit the guilty for a bribe[#Ps 94.21; Isa 10.1, 2]
and deprive the innocent of their rights!
24Therefore, as the tongue of fire devours the stubble[#Job 18.16; Isa 9.18, 19; Hos 5.12; Acts 13.41]
and as dry grass sinks down in the flame,
so their root will become rotten,
and their blossom go up like dust,
for they have rejected the instruction of the Lord of hosts
and have despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.
25Therefore the anger of the Lord was kindled against his people,[#2 Kings 22.13; Isa 9.12, 17, 21; 14.19; 23.11; Jer 4.24]
and he stretched out his hand against them and struck them;
the mountains quaked,
and their corpses were like refuse
in the streets.
For all this his anger has not turned away,
and his hand is stretched out still.
26He will raise a signal for a nation far away[#Deut 28.49; Isa 7.18; 13.2–5]
and whistle for a people at the ends of the earth.
Here they come, swiftly, speedily!
27None of them is weary; none stumbles;[#Dan 5.6; Joel 2.7, 8]
none slumbers or sleeps;
not a loincloth is loose;
not a sandal strap broken;
28their arrows are sharp;[#Ps 7.12, 13; Jer 4.13]
all their bows strung;
their horses’ hoofs seem like flint,
and their wheels like the whirlwind.
29Their roaring is like a lion;[#Isa 10.6; 42.22; Jer 51.38]
like young lions they roar;
they growl and seize their prey;
they carry it off, and no one can rescue.
30They will roar over it on that day,[#Isa 8.22; 17.12]
like the roaring of the sea.
And if one look to the land—
only darkness and distress;
and the light grows dark with its clouds.