Isaiah 5:5-7

New Catholic Bible

⁵ Now listen to me as I tell you
    what I am planning to do to my vineyard.
I will take away its hedge
    and use it for grazing.
I will knock down its wall
    and let it be trampled upon.
⁶ I will let it go to waste;
    it will be neither pruned nor hoed,
    but left overgrown with briars and thorns.
I will also command the clouds
    not to allow any rain to fall upon it.
⁷ The vineyard of the Lord of hosts
    is the house of Israel,
and the people of Judah
    are the plant he cherished.
He expected justice but found bloodshed;
    he expected righteousness but heard cries of distress.