Isaiah 5:4-13

4What more could I have done for my vineyard than I did? Why, when I expected a yield of good grapes, did it yield worthless grapes?

5Now I will tell you what I am about to do to my vineyard: I will remove its hedge, and it will be consumed; I will tear down its wall, and it will be trampled.

6I will make it a wasteland. It will not be pruned or weeded; thorns and briers will grow up. I will also give orders to the clouds that rain should not fall on it.

7For the vineyard of the Lord of Armies is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah, the plant he delighted in. He expected justice but saw injustice; he expected righteousness but heard cries of despair.

8Woe to those who add house to house and join field to field until there is no more room and you alone are left in the land.

9I heard the Lord of Armies say: Indeed, many houses will become desolate, grand and lovely ones without inhabitants.

10For a ten-acre vineyard will yield only six gallons of wine, and ten bushels of seed will yield only one bushel of grain.

11Woe to those who rise early in the morning in pursuit of beer, who linger into the evening, inflamed by wine.

12At their feasts they have lyre, harp, tambourine, flute, and wine. They do not perceive the Lord’s actions, and they do not see the work of his hands.

13Therefore my people will go into exile because they lack knowledge; her dignitaries are starving, and her masses are parched with thirst.