He dug it up and cleared it of stones
    and planted it with the choicest vines.(A)
He built a watchtower(B) in it
    and cut out a winepress(C) as well.
Then he looked for a crop of good grapes,
    but it yielded only bad fruit.(D)

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And he fenced it, and gathered out the stones thereof, and planted it with the choicest vine, and built a tower in the midst of it, and also made a winepress therein: and he looked that it should bring forth grapes, and it brought forth wild grapes.

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He dug it up and cleared out its stones,
And planted it with the choicest vine.
He built a tower in its midst,
And also [a]made a winepress in it;
(A)So He expected it to bring forth good grapes,
But it brought forth wild grapes.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 5:2 Lit. hewed out

You will keep in perfect peace(A)
    those whose minds are steadfast,
    because they trust(B) in you.

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Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee: because he trusteth in thee.

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You will keep him in perfect (A)peace,
Whose mind is stayed on You,
Because he trusts in You.

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