Isaiah 5:4-6

New International Reader's Version

⁴ What more could I have done for my vineyard?
    I did everything I could.
I kept looking for a crop of good grapes.
    So why did it produce only bad ones?
⁵ Now I will tell you
    what I am going to do to my vineyard.
I will take away its fence.
    And the vineyard will be destroyed.
I will break down its wall.
    And people will walk all over my vineyard.
⁶ I will turn my vineyard into a dry and empty desert.
    It will not be pruned or taken care of.
    Thorns and bushes will grow there.
I will command the clouds
    not to rain on it.”