The shepherds with their flocks shall come unto her; they shall pitch their tents against her round about; they shall feed everyone in his own place.

Behold, I will send and take all the families of the north, says the LORD, and Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and will bring them against this land, and against its inhabitants, and against all these nations round about, and will utterly destroy them, and make them an astonishment, and a hissing, and perpetual desolations.

And all the princes of the king of Babylon came in, and sat in the middle gate, even Nergal-sharezer, Samgar-nebo, Sarsechim the Rabsaris, Nergal-sharezer the Rab-mag, with all the rest of the princes of the king of Babylon.

You have brought a vine out of Egypt: you have cast out the nations, and planted it.

The hills were covered with the shadow of it, and the boughs thereof were like the goodly cedars.

Why have you then broken down its hedges, so that all they who pass by the way do pluck its fruit?

Return, we beseech you, O God of hosts: look down from heaven, and behold, and visit this vine;

It is burned with fire, it is cut down: they perish at the rebuke of your countenance.

Now will I sing to my well-beloved a song of my beloved regarding his vineyard. My well-beloved has a vineyard on a very fruitful hill:

And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem, and men of Judah, judge, I pray you, between me and my vineyard.

And now; I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard: I will take away its hedge, and it shall be eaten up; and break down its wall, and it shall be trampled down:

For the vineyard of the LORD of hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasant plant: and he looked for justice, but behold oppression; for righteousness, but behold a cry.

Then began he to speak to the people this parable; A certain man planted a vineyard, and let it out to tenants, and went into a far country for a long time.

And again he sent another servant: and they beat him also, and treated him shamefully, and sent him away empty.

Then said the lord of the vineyard, What shall I do? I will send my beloved son: it may be they will respect him when they see him.

So they cast him out of the vineyard, and killed him. What therefore shall the lord of the vineyard do unto them?

Therefore I have profaned the princes of the sanctuary, and have given Jacob to the curse, and Israel to reproaches.

The people of your holiness have possessed it but a little while: our adversaries have trodden down your sanctuary.

The adversary has spread out his hand over all her precious things: for she has seen that the nations entered into her sanctuary, whom you did command that they should not enter into your congregation.

All her people sigh, they seek bread; they have given their treasures for food to relieve the soul: see, O LORD, and consider; for I have become despised.

Settle it therefore in your hearts, not to meditate beforehand what you shall answer:

But the court which is outside the temple leave out, and measure it not; for it is given unto the Gentiles: and the holy city shall they tread under foot forty and two months.

But I said, How shall I put you among the children, and give you a pleasant land, a beautiful heritage of the hosts of nations? and I said, You shall call me, My father; and shall not turn away from me.