“I will lay it a wasteland.It won’t be pruned or hoed,but it will grow briers and thorns.I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain on it.”
Isaiah 5:6 (WEB)
Context Reading
4What could have been done more to my vineyard, that I have not done in it?Why, when I looked for it to yield grapes, did it yield wild grapes? 5Now 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, and it will be trampled down. 6I will lay it a wasteland.It won’t be pruned or hoed,but it will grow briers and thorns.I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain on it.” 7For the vineyard of Yahweh of Armies is the house of Israel,and the men of Judah his pleasant plant.He looked for justice, but behold, oppression,for righteousness, but behold, a cry of distress. 8Woe to those who join house to house,who lay field to field, until there is no room,and you are made to dwell alone in the middle of the land!