¹² Why have you broken down its walls, So that all those who pass by the way pluck it?

⁵ Now I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard. I will take away its hedge, and it will be eaten up. I will break down its wall of it, and it will be trampled down.

⁴⁰ You have broken down all his hedges. You have brought his strongholds to ruin.

⁴¹ All who pass by the way rob him. He has become a reproach to his neighbors.

⁵ For before the harvest, when the blossom is over, and the flower becomes a ripening grape, he will cut off the sprigs with pruning-hooks, and the spreading branches will he take away [and] cut down.

⁶ They shall be left together to the ravenous birds of the mountains, and to the animals of the earth; and the ravenous birds shall summer on them, and all the animals of the earth shall winter on them.

² For Yahweh restores the excellency of Jacob, as the excellency of Israel; for the destroyers have destroyed them, and ruined their vine branches.

¹⁶ He will come and destroy these farmers, and will give the vineyard to others." When they heard it, they said, "May it never be!"