Canticle of Isaias:
Is:5:
1 I will sing to my beloved the canticle of my cousin concerning his vineyard. My beloved had a vineyard
on a hill in a fruitful place.
2 And he fenced it in, and picked the stones out of it, and planted it, with the choicest vines, and built a tower in the midst thereof, and set up a winepress therein: and he looked that it should bring forth grapes, and it brought forth wild grapes.
3 And now, 0 ye inhabitants of Jerusalem, and ye men of Juda, judge between me and my vineyard.
4 What is there that 1 ought to do more to my vineyard, that I have not done to it? was it that I looked that it should bring forth grapes, and it hath brought forth wild grapes?
5 And now I will show you what 1 will do to my vineyard. I will take away the hedge thereof, and it shall be wasted: I will break down the wall thereof, and it shall be trodden down.
6 And I will make it desolate: it shall not be pruned, and it shall not be digged: but briers and thorns shall come up: and I will command the clouds to rain no rain upon it.
7 For the vineyard of the Lord of hosts is the house of Israel: and the man of Juda, his pleasant plant: and I looked that he should do judgment, and behold iniquity: and do justice, and behold a cry.
8 Woe to you that join house to house and lay field to field, even to the end of the place: shall you alone dwell in the midst of the earth?
9 These things are in my ears, saith the Lord of hosts: Truly many great and fair houses shall become desolate, without an inhabitant.
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