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Isaiah 5:1-7

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A Song about the Lord ’s Vineyard

¹Now I will sing for the one I love a song about his vineyard: My beloved had a vineyard on a rich and fertile hill.

²He plowed the land, cleared its stones, and planted it with the best vines. In the middle he built a watchtower and carved a winepress in the nearby rocks. Then he waited for a harvest of sweet grapes, but the grapes that grew were bitter.

³Now, you people of Jerusalem and Judah, you judge between me and my vineyard.

⁴What more could I have done for my vineyard that I have not already done? When I expected sweet grapes, why did my vineyard give me bitter grapes?

⁵Now let me tell you what I will do to my vineyard: I will tear down its hedges and let it be destroyed. I will break down its walls and let the animals trample it.

⁶I will make it a wild place where the vines are not pruned and the ground is not hoed, a place overgrown with briers and thorns. I will command the clouds to drop no rain on it.

⁷The nation of Israel is the vineyard of the Lord of Heaven’s Armies. The people of Judah are his pleasant garden. He expected a crop of justice, but instead he found oppression. He expected to find righteousness, but instead he heard cries of violence.

Judah’s Guilt and Judgment

Isaiah 5:1-7 (NLT)