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.

1 [Cantabo dilecto meocanticum patruelis mei vine su.Vinea facta est dilecto meoin cornu filio olei.2 Et sepivit eam, et lapides elegit ex illa,et plantavit eam electam ;et dificavit turrim in medio ejus,et torcular exstruxit in ea ;et exspectavit ut faceret uvas,et fecit labruscas.3 Nunc ergo, habitatores Jerusalemet viri Juda,judicate inter meet vineam meam.4 Quid est quod debui ultra facere vine me,et non feci ei ?an quod exspectavi ut faceret uvas,et fecit labruscas ?5 Et nunc ostendam vobisquid ego faciam vine me :auferam sepem ejus,et erit in direptionem ;diruam maceriam ejus,et erit in conculcationem.6 Et ponam eam desertam ;non putabitur et non fodietur :et ascendent vepres et spin,et nubibus mandabone pluant super eam imbrem.7 Vinea enim Domini exercituumdomus Isral est ;et vir Judagermen ejus delectabile :et exspectavi ut faceret judicium,et ecce iniquitas ;et justitiam, et ecce clamor.]8 [V qui conjungitis domum ad domum,et agrum agro copulatisusque ad terminum loci !Numquid habitabitis vos soliin medio terr ?9 In auribus meis sunt hc,dicit Dominus exercituum ;nisi domus mult desert fuerint,grandes et pulchr, absque habitatore.10 Decem enim jugera vinearum facient lagunculam unam,et triginta modii sementis facient modios tres.11 V qui consurgitis manead ebrietatem sectandam,et potandum usque ad vesperam,ut vino stuetis !12 Cithara, et lyra, et tympanum,et tibia, et vinum in conviviis vestris ;et opus Domini non respicitis,nec opera manuum ejus consideratis.13 Propterea captivus ductus est populus meus,quia non habuit scientiam,et nobiles ejus interierunt fame,et multitudo ejus siti exaruit.14 Propterea dilatavit infernus animam suam,et aperuit os suum absque ullo termino ;et descendent fortes ejus,et populus ejus, et sublimes gloriosique ejus, ad eum.15 Et incurvabitur homo, et humiliabitur vir,et oculi sublimium deprimentur.16 Et exaltabitur Dominus exercituum in judicio ;et Deus sanctus sanctificabitur in justitia.17 Et pascentur agni juxta ordinem suum,et deserta in ubertatem versa adven comedent.]18 [V qui trahitis iniquitatemin funiculis vanitatis,et quasi vinculum plaustri peccatum !19 qui dicitis : Festinet,et cito veniat opus ejus, ut videamus ;et appropiet, et veniatconsilium sancti Isral,et sciemus illud !20 V qui dicitis malum bonum,et bonum malum ;ponentes tenebras lucem,et lucem tenebras ;ponentes amarum in dulce,et dulce in amarum !21 V qui sapientes estis in oculis vestris,et coram vobismetipsis prudentes.22 V qui potentes estis ad bibendum vinum,et viri fortes ad miscendam ebrietatem !23 qui justificatis impium pro muneribus,et justitiam justi aufertis ab eo !24 Propter hoc, sicut devorat stipulam lingua ignis,et calor flamm exurit,sic radix eorum quasi favilla erit,et germen eorum ut pulvis ascendet ;abjecerunt enim legem Domini exercituum,et eloquium sancti Isral blasphemaverunt.25 Ideo iratus est furor Domini in populum suum,et extendit manum suam super eum, et percussit eum :et conturbati sunt montes,et facta sunt morticina eorum quasi stercus in medio platearum.In his omnibus non est adversus furor ejus,sed adhuc manus ejus extenta.26 Et elevabit signum in nationibus procul,et sibilabit ad eum de finibus terr :et ecce festinus velociter veniet.27 Non est deficiens neque laborans in eo ;non dormitabit, neque dormiet ;neque solvetur cingulum renum ejus,nec rumpetur corrigia calceamenti ejus.28 Sagitt ejus acut, et omnes arcus ejus extenti.Ungul equorum ejus ut silex,et rot ejus quasi impetus tempestatis.29 Rugitus ejus ut leonis ;rugiet ut catuli leonum :et frendet, et tenebit prdam,et amplexabitur, et non erit qui eruat.30 Et sonabit super eum in die illa sicut sonitus maris :aspiciemus in terram,et ecce tenebr tribulationis,et lux obtenebrata est in caligine ejus.]