Isaiah 5:4-13

4What more was there to do for my vineyard that I have not done? Why then, when I expected it to yield good grapes, did it yield worthless grapes?

5So now, I will make known to you what I will do to my vineyard: I will take away the hedge, and it will be eaten up. I will break down the fence, and it will be trodden down.

6I will lay it waste: it will not be pruned or hoed, but briers and thorns will come up. I will also command the clouds not to rain on it.

7For the vineyard of Adonai-Tzva’ot is the house of Israel, and the people of Judah the planting of His delight. He looked for justice, but behold, bloodshed, for righteousness, but behold, a cry!

8Woe to those who join house to house and merge field to field, until there is no room, and you will live alone in the midst of the land!

9In my ears, Adonai-Tzva’ot has said: “Surely many houses will be desolate— even grand and fine ones— with no occupants.”

10Ten acres of vineyard will yield six gallons, and an omer of seed will yield one ephah.

11Woe to those who rise up early in the morning— so they may pursue liquor, who stay up late at night, until wine inflames them!

12Harp and lyre, tambourine and flute, and wine are at their banquets. They do not notice Adonai’s activity nor see the works of His hands.

13“Therefore My people are in captivity for lack of knowledge. Their honorable men are famished and their multitudes parched with thirst.