1 Now will I sing of my beloved
a shirat dodi touching His kerem (vineyard).
My beloved had a kerem (vineyard)
in a very fruitful hill;
2 And He dug it up, and gathered out the stones thereof,
and planted it with the choicest vine,
and built a migdal in the midst of it,
and also made a yekev (winepress) therein;
and He looked that it should bring forth anavim (grapes),
and it brought forth b’ushim (wild grapes).
3 And now, O inhabitants of Yerushalayim,
and Ish Yehudah,
judge, now, between Me and My kerem (vineyard).
4 What could have been done more to My kerem (vineyard),
that I have not done in it? Why,
when I looked that it should bring forth anavim,
brought it forth b’ushim?
5 And now then;
I will tell you now what I will do to my kerem (vineyard):
I will take away the hedge thereof,
and it shall be grazed upon;
and break down the wall thereof,
and it shall be trampled down;
6 And I will lay it waste;
it shall not be pruned,
nor cultivated;
but there shall come up briers and thorns;
I will also command the clouds that they rain no matar (rain) upon it.
7 For the Kerem Hashem Tzva’os
is Bais Yisroel,
and the Ish Yehudah
are the planting of His delight;
and He looked for mishpat (justice),
but, hinei, mishpach (bloodshed, rapaciousness);
for tzedakah, but, hinei, tze’akah (cry of distress).