Isaiah 5:3 BBE

¹  Let me make a song about my loved one, a song of love for his vine-garden. My loved one had a vine-garden on a fertile hill:

²  And after working the earth of it with a spade, he took away its stones, and put in it a very special vine; and he put up a watchtower in the middle of it, hollowing out in the rock a place for the grape-crushing; and he was hoping that it would give the best grapes, but it gave common grapes.

³  And now, you people of Jerusalem and you men of Judah, be the judges between me and my vine-garden.

⁴  Is there anything which might have been done for my vine-garden which I have not done? why then, when I was hoping for the best grapes did it give me common grapes?

⁵  And now, this is what I will do to my vine-garden: I will take away the circle of thorns round it, and it will be burned up; its wall will be broken down and the beasts of the field will go through it;