1 Agora, cantarei ao meu amado o cântico do meu amado a respeito da sua vinha. O meu amado teve uma vinha num outeiro fertilíssimo. 2 Sachou-a, limpou-a das pedras e a plantou de vides escolhidas; edificou no meio dela uma torre e também abriu um lagar. Ele esperava que desse uvas boas, mas deu uvas bravas. 3 Agora, pois, ó moradores de Jerusalém e homens de Judá, julgai, vos peço, entre mim e a minha vinha. 4 Que mais se podia fazer ainda à minha vinha, que eu lhe não tenha feito? E como, esperando eu que desse uvas boas, veio a produzir uvas bravas? 5 Agora, pois, vos farei saber o que pretendo fazer à minha vinha: tirarei a sua sebe, para que a vinha sirva de pasto; derribarei o seu muro, para que seja pisada; 6 torná-la-ei em deserto. Não será podada, nem sachada, mas crescerão nela espinheiros e abrolhos; às nuvens darei ordem que não derramem chuva sobre ela. 7 Porque a vinha do Senhor dos Exércitos é a casa de Israel, e os homens de Judá são a planta dileta do Senhor; este desejou que exercessem juízo, e eis aí quebrantamento da lei; justiça, e eis aí clamor.

8 Ai dos que ajuntam casa a casa, reúnem campo a campo, até que não haja mais lugar, e ficam como únicos moradores no meio da terra! 9 A meus ouvidos disse o Senhor dos Exércitos: Em verdade, muitas casas ficarão desertas, até as grandes e belas, sem moradores. 10 E dez jeiras de vinha não darão mais do que um bato, e um ômer cheio de semente não dará mais do que um efa.

11 Ai dos que se levantam pela manhã e seguem a bebedice e continuam até alta noite, até que o vinho os esquenta! 12 Liras e harpas, tamboris e flautas e vinho há nos seus banquetes; porém não consideram os feitos do Senhor, nem olham para as obras das suas mãos. 13 Portanto, o meu povo será levado cativo, por falta de entendimento; os seus nobres terão fome, e a sua multidão se secará de sede. 14 Por isso, a cova aumentou o seu apetite, abriu a sua boca desmesuradamente; para lá desce a glória de Jerusalém, e o seu tumulto, e o seu ruído, e quem nesse meio folgava. 15 Então, a gente se abate, e o homem se avilta; e os olhos dos altivos são humilhados. 16 Mas o Senhor dos Exércitos é exaltado em juízo; e Deus, o Santo, é santificado em justiça. 17 Então, os cordeiros pastarão lá como se no seu pasto; e os nômades se nutrirão dos campos dos ricos lá abandonados.

18 Ai dos que puxam para si a iniquidade com cordas de injustiça e o pecado, como com tirantes de carro! 19 E dizem: Apresse-se Deus, leve a cabo a sua obra, para que a vejamos; aproxime-se, manifeste-se o conselho do Santo de Israel, para que o conheçamos.

20 Ai dos que ao mal chamam bem e ao bem, mal; que fazem da escuridade luz e da luz, escuridade; põem o amargo por doce e o doce, por amargo!

21 Ai dos que são sábios a seus próprios olhos e prudentes em seu próprio conceito!

22 Ai dos que são heróis para beber vinho e valentes para misturar bebida forte, 23 os quais por suborno justificam o perverso e ao justo negam justiça!

24 Pelo que, como a língua de fogo consome o restolho, e a erva seca se desfaz pela chama, assim será a sua raiz como podridão, e a sua flor se esvaecerá como pó; porquanto rejeitaram a lei do Senhor dos Exércitos e desprezaram a palavra do Santo de Israel. 25 Por isso, se acende a ira do Senhor contra o seu povo, povo contra o qual estende a mão e o fere, de modo que tremem os montes e os seus cadáveres são como monturo no meio das ruas. Com tudo isto não se aplaca a sua ira, mas ainda está estendida a sua mão.

26 Ele arvorará o estandarte para as nações distantes e lhes assobiará para que venham das extremidades da terra; e vêm apressadamente. 27 Não há entre elas cansado, nem quem tropece; ninguém tosqueneja, nem dorme; não se lhe desata o cinto dos seus lombos, nem se lhe rompe das sandálias a correia. 28 As suas flechas são agudas, e todos os seus arcos, retesados; as unhas dos seus cavalos dizem-se de pederneira, e as rodas dos seus carros, um redemoinho. 29 O seu rugido é como o do leão; rugem como filhos de leão, e, rosnando, arrebatam a presa, e a levam, e não há quem a livre. 30 Bramam contra eles naquele dia, como o bramido do mar; se alguém olhar para a terra, eis que só há trevas e angústia, e a luz se escurece em densas nuvens.

1 Let me sing for my wellbeloved a song of my beloved touching his vineyard. My wellbeloved had a vineyard in a very fruitful hill: 2 and he digged it, and gathered out the stones thereof, and planted it with the choicest vine, and built a tower in the midst of it, and also hewed out a winepress therein: and he looked that it should bring forth grapes, and it brought forth wild grapes.

3 And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem and men of Judah, judge, I pray you, betwixt me and my vineyard. 4 What could have been done more to my vineyard, that I have not done in it? wherefore, when I looked that it should bring forth grapes, brought it forth wild grapes? 5 And now I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard: I will take away the hedge thereof, and it shall be eaten up; I will break down the wall thereof, and it shall be trodden down: 6 and I will lay it waste; it shall not be pruned nor hoed; but there shall 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 unto them that join house to house, that lay field to field, till there be no room, and ye be made to dwell alone in the midst of the land! 9 In mine ears saith Jehovah of hosts, Of a truth many houses shall be desolate, even great and fair, without inhabitant. 10 For ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and a homer of seed shall yield but an ephah. 11 Woe unto them that rise up early in the morning, that they may follow strong drink; that tarry late into the night, till wine inflame them! 12 And the harp and the lute, the tabret and the pipe, and wine, are in their feasts; but they regard not the work of Jehovah, neither have they considered the operation of his hands.

13 Therefore my people are gone into captivity for lack of knowledge; and their honorable men are famished, and their multitude are parched with thirst. 14 Therefore Sheol hath enlarged its desire, and opened its mouth without measure; and their glory, and their multitude, and their pomp, and he that rejoiceth among them, descend into it. 15 And the mean man is bowed down, and the great man is humbled, and the eyes of the lofty are humbled: 16 but Jehovah of hosts is exalted in justice, and God the Holy One is sanctified in righteousness. 17 Then shall the lambs feed as in their pasture, and the waste places of the fat ones shall wanderers eat.

18 Woe unto them that draw iniquity with cords of falsehood, and sin as it were with a cart rope; 19 that say, Let him make speed, let him hasten his work, that we may see it; and let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel draw nigh and come, that we may know it! 20 Woe unto 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! 21 Woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight! 22 Woe unto them that are mighty to drink wine, and men of strength to mingle strong drink; 23 that justify the wicked for a bribe, and take away the righteousness of the righteous from him!

24 Therefore as the tongue of fire devoureth the stubble, and as the dry grass sinketh down in the flame, so their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust; because they have rejected the law of Jehovah of hosts, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel. 25 Therefore is the anger of Jehovah kindled against his people, and he hath stretched forth his hand against them, and hath smitten them; and the mountains tremble, and their dead bodies are as refuse in the midst of the streets. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.

26 And he will lift up an ensign to the nations from far, and will hiss for them from the end of the earth; and, behold, they shall come with speed swiftly. 27 None shall be weary nor stumble among them; none shall slumber nor sleep; neither shall the girdle of their loins be loosed, nor the latchet of their shoes be broken: 28 whose arrows are sharp, and all their bows bent; their horses’ hoofs shall be accounted as flint, and their wheels as a whirlwind: 29 their roaring shall be like a lioness, they shall roar like young lions; yea, they shall roar, and lay hold of the prey, and carry it away safe, and there shall be none to deliver. 30 And they shall roar against them in that day like the roaring of the sea: and if one look unto the land, behold, darkness and distress; and the light is darkened in the clouds thereof.

1 I will sing for the one I love a song about his vineyard: My loved one had a vineyard on a fertile hillside.

2 He dug it up and cleared it of stones and planted it with the choicest vines. He built a watchtower in it and cut out a winepress as well. Then he looked for a crop of good grapes, but it yielded only bad fruit.

3 "Now you dwellers in Jerusalem and people of Judah, judge between me and my vineyard.

4 What more could have been done for my vineyard than I have done for it? When I looked for good grapes, why did it yield only bad?

5 Now I will tell you what I am going to do to my vineyard: I will take away its hedge, and it will be destroyed; I will break down its wall, and it will be trampled.

6 I will make it a wasteland, neither pruned nor cultivated, and briers and thorns will grow there. I will command the clouds not to rain on it."

7 The vineyard of the LORD Almighty is the nation of Israel, and the people of Judah are the vines he delighted in. And he looked for justice, but saw bloodshed; for righteousness, but heard cries of distress.

8 Woe to you who add house to house and join field to field till no space is left and you live alone in the land.

9 The LORD Almighty has declared in my hearing: "Surely the great houses will become desolate, the fine mansions left without occupants.

10 A ten-acre vineyard will produce only a bath "of wine; a homer "of seed will yield only an ephah "of grain."

11 Woe to those who rise early in the morning to run after their drinks, who stay up late at night till they are inflamed with wine.

12 They have harps and lyres at their banquets, pipes and timbrels and wine, but they have no regard for the deeds of the LORD, no respect for the work of his hands.

13 Therefore my people will go into exile for lack of understanding; those of high rank will die of hunger and the common people will be parched with thirst.

14 Therefore Death expands its jaws, opening wide its mouth; into it will descend their nobles and masses with all their brawlers and revelers.

15 So people will be brought low and everyone humbled, the eyes of the arrogant humbled.

16 But the LORD Almighty will be exalted by his justice, and the holy God will be proved holy by his righteous acts.

17 Then sheep will graze as in their own pasture; lambs will feed "among the ruins of the rich.

18 Woe to those who draw sin along with cords of deceit, and wickedness as with cart ropes,

19 to those who say, "Let God hurry; let him hasten his work so we may see it. The plan of the Holy One of Israel — let it approach, let it come into view, so we may know it."

20 Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter.

21 Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes and clever in their own sight.

22 Woe to those who are heroes at drinking wine and champions at mixing drinks,

23 who acquit the guilty for a bribe, but deny justice to the innocent.

24 Therefore, as tongues of fire lick up straw and as dry grass sinks down in the flames, so their roots will decay and their flowers blow away like dust; for they have rejected the law of the LORD Almighty and spurned the word of the Holy One of Israel.

25 Therefore the LORD's anger burns against his people; his hand is raised and he strikes them down. The mountains shake, and the dead bodies are like refuse in the streets. Yet for all this, his anger is not turned away, his hand is still upraised.

26 He lifts up a banner for the distant nations, he whistles for those at the ends of the earth. Here they come, swiftly and speedily!

27 Not one of them grows tired or stumbles, not one slumbers or sleeps; not a belt is loosened at the waist, not a sandal strap is broken.

28 Their arrows are sharp, all their bows are strung; their horses' hooves seem like flint, their chariot wheels like a whirlwind.

29 Their roar is like that of the lion, they roar like young lions; they growl as they seize their prey and carry it off with no one to rescue.

30 In that day they will roar over it like the roaring of the sea. And if one looks at the land, there is only darkness and distress; even the sun will be darkened by clouds.