¹² Why are its walls broken down by your hands, so that all who go by may take its fruit?

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;

⁴⁰ All his walls are broken down; you have given his strong towers to destruction.

⁴¹ All those who come by take away his goods; he is laughed at by his neighbours.

⁵ For before the time of getting in the grapes, after the opening of the bud, when the flower has become a grape ready for crushing, he will take away the small branches with knives, cutting down and taking away the wide-stretching branches.

⁶ They will be for the birds of the mountains, and for the beasts of the earth: the birds will come down on them in the summer, and the beasts of the earth in the winter.

² A crusher has come up before your face: keep a good look-out, let the way be watched, make yourself strong, let your power be greatly increased.

¹⁶ He will come and put them to destruction and give the garden to others. And when he said this, they said, May it not be so.