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¹I shall sing for my darling the song of mine uncle’s son, of his vineyard. A vinery or vineyard was made to my darling, in the horn, that is, in an high place and excellent, in the son of oil, that is, in a place full of olives, of whose fruit is wrung out oil.

²And he hedged it, and chose stones thereof, and planted a chosen vinery or vineyard; and he builded a tower in the midst thereof, and reared a wine press therein; and he abode, that it should make grapes, and it made wild grapes.

³Now therefore, ye dwellers of Jerusalem, and ye men of Judah, deem between me and my vinery or vineyard.

⁴What is it that I ought to do more to my vinery or vineyard, and I did not to it? whether that I abode, that it should make grapes, and it made wild grapes?

⁵And now I shall show to you, what I shall do to my vinery or vineyard. I shall take away the hedge thereof, and it shall be into ravishing; I shall cast down the wall thereof, and it shall be into defouling;

⁶and I shall set it deserted, either forsaken. It shall not be cut, and it shall not be digged, and briars and thorns shall grow upon it; and I shall command to the clouds, that they rain not rain on it.

⁷Forsooth the vinery or vineyard of the Lord of hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah be the delightable burgeoning of him. I abode, that it shall make doom, and lo! wickedness; and that it should do rightfulness or rightwiseness, and lo! cry.

⁸Woe to you that join house to house, and couple field to field, till to the end of a place. Whether ye alone shall dwell in the midst of the land?

⁹These things be in the ears of me, the Lord of hosts; If many houses be not forsaken, great and fair, without dweller, believe ye not to me.

¹⁰For why ten acres of vines or vineyards shall make one pottle, and thirty bushels of seed shall make three bushels.

¹¹Woe to you that rise altogether early to follow drunkenness, and to drink till to eventide, that ye burn with wine.

¹²Harp, and gittern, and tympan, and pipe, and wine be in your feasts; and ye behold not the work of the Lord, neither ye behold the works of his hands.

¹³Therefore my people is led captive, either prisoner, for it had not knowing; and the noblemen thereof perished in hunger, and the multitude thereof was dry in thirst.

¹⁴Therefore hell hath alarged his soul, and opened his mouth without any end; and the strong men thereof, and the people thereof, and the high men, and the glorious men thereof, shall go down to it.

¹⁵And a man shall be bowed down, and a man of age shall be made low; and the eyes of high men shall be pressed down.

¹⁶And the Lord of hosts shall be enhanced in doom, and the holy God shall be hallowed in rightfulness or rightwiseness.

¹⁷And lambs shall be fed by their order, and comelings shall eat of the desert places turned into plenty.

¹⁸Woe to you that draw wickedness in the cords of vanity, and draw sin as the bond of a wain;

¹⁹and ye say, The work of him hasten, and come soon, that we see; and the counsel of the Holy of Israel nigh, and come, and we shall know it.

²⁰Woe to you that say evil good, and good evil; and put darknesses light, and light darknesses; and put bitter thing into sweet, and sweet thing into bitter.

²¹Woe to you that be wise men in your eyes, and be prudent before yourselves.

²²Woe to you that be mighty to drink wine, and be strong to meddle or mingle drunkenness;

²³and ye justify a wicked man for gifts, and ye take away the rightful-ness or rightwiseness of a just or rightwise man from him.

²⁴For this thing, as the tongue of fire devoureth stubble, and the heat of flame burneth, so the root of them shall be as a dead spark, and the seed of them shall ascend or go up as dust; for they casted away the law of the Lord of hosts, and blasphemed the speech of the Holy of Israel.

²⁵Therefore the strong vengeance of the Lord was wroth against his people, and he stretched forth his hand on it, and smote it; and hills were troubled or the mountains be disturbed, and the dead bodies of them were made as a turd in the midst or the middle of streets. In all these things the strong vengeance of him was not turned away, but yet his hand was stretched forth.

²⁶And he shall raise up a sign among nations afar, and he shall hiss to him from the ends of the earth; and lo! he shall hasten, and shall come swiftly.

²⁷None is failing neither travailing in that host; he shall not nap, neither sleep, neither the girdle of his reins shall be undone, neither the lace of his shoe shall be broken.

²⁸His arrows be sharp, and all his bows be bent; the hoofs of his horses be as flint, and his wheels be as the fierceness of tempest.

²⁹His roaring shall be as of a lion; he shall roar as the whelps of lions; and he shall gnash, and shall hold prey, and shall embrace, and none shall be, that shall deliver.

³⁰And he shall sound on it in that day, as doeth the sound of the sea; we shall behold into the earth, and lo! darknesses of tribulation, and light is made dark in the darkness thereof.