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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?
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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:
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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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Woe unto them that joinhouse to house, that layfield to field, till there be noplace, that they may be placed alone in the midst of the earth!
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In mine ears said the LORD of hosts, Of a truthmanyhouses shall be desolate, even great and fair, without inhabitant.
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Yea,tenacres of vineyard shall yieldonebath, and the seed of an homer shall yield an ephah.
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Woe unto them that rise up early in the morning, that they may follow strong drink; that continue until night, till wineinflame[a] them!
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And the harp, and the viol, the tabret, and pipe, and wine, are in their feasts: but they regard not the work of the LORD, neither consider the operation of his hands.
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Therefore my people are gone into captivity, because they have no knowledge: and their honourable[b]men are famished, and their multitude dried up with thirst.
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Therefore hell hath enlargedherself, and opened her mouth without measure: and their glory, and their multitude, and their pomp, and he that rejoiceth, shall descend into it.