Shared Word Translation
Isaiah 5
Let me sing for my beloved my beloved’s song concerning his vineyard:
My beloved had a vineyard on a fertile hill.
He dug it and cleared it of stones,
and planted it with choice vines.
He built a tower in the midst of it,
and also carved out a wine vat in it.
He waited for it to yield grapes, but it produced wild grapes.
So now, inhabitants of Jerusalem
and people of Judah,
judge between me and my vineyard.
What more was there to do for my vineyard
that I have not done in it?
Why, when I waited for grapes,
did it yield wild grapes?
Now I will tell you
what I will do to my vineyard.
I will remove its hedge, and it will become waste;
I will break down its wall, and it shall be trampled.
I will make it a desolation;
it will not be pruned nor hoed,
and briars and thorns shall grow;
I will also command the clouds
that they rain no rain upon it.
For the vineyard of the LORD of Hosts
is the house of Israel,
and the people of Judah
are his pleasant planting;
he waited for justice,
but behold, bloodshed;
for righteousness,
but behold, an outcry!