²³ And it will be in that day that in every place where before there were a thousand vines valued at a thousand shekels of silver, there will be nothing but blackberries and thorns.

⁶ And I will make it waste; its branches will not be touched with the knife, or the earth worked with the spade; but blackberries and thorns will come up in it: and I will give orders to the clouds not to send rain on it.

¹¹ Solomon had a vine-garden at Baal-hamon; he let out the vine-garden to keepers; every one had to give a thousand bits of silver for its fruit.

¹² My vine-garden, which is mine, is before me: you, O Solomon, will have the thousand, and those who keep the fruit of them two hundred.

¹² Have sorrow for the fields, the pleasing fields, the fertile vine;

¹³ And for the land of my people, where thorns will come up; even for all the houses of joy in the glad town.

¹⁴ For the fair houses will have no man living in them; the town which was full of noise will become a waste; the hill and the watchtower will be unpeopled for ever, a joy for the asses of the woods, a place of food for the flocks;

²⁶ Looking, I saw that the fertile field was a waste, and all its towns were broken down before the Lord and before his burning wrath.

³³ Give ear to another story. A master of a house made a vine garden, and put a wall round it, and made a place for crushing out the wine, and made a tower, and let it out to field-workers, and went into another country.

⁸ But if it sends up thorns and evil plants, it is of no use and is ready to be cursed; its only end is to be burned.