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Now will I sing to my wellbeloved a song of my beloved touching his vineyard. My wellbeloved hath a vineyard in a very fruitfulhill:2
And he fenceda it, and gathered out the stones thereof, and planted it with the choicest vine, and built a tower in the midst of it, and also made a winepress therein: and he looked that it should bring forthgrapes, and it brought forth wild grapes.3
And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem, and men of Judah,judge , I pray you, betwixt me and my vineyard.4
What could have been done more to my vineyard, that I have not done in it? wherefore, when I looked that it should bring forthgrapes, brought it forth wild grapes?5
And now go to; I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard: I will take away the hedge thereof, and it shall be eaten up ; and break down the wall thereof, and it shall be trodden down:6
And I will lay it waste: it shall not be pruned , nor digged ; but there shall come upbriers and thorns: I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it.
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For the vineyard of the LORD of hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasantplant: and he looked for judgment, but behold oppression; for righteousness, but behold a cry.
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