Translations
He broke up the ground, cleared every stone, and planted it with the choicest vines. He built a watchtower at its heart and carved a winepress from the rock. He looked for a harvest of good grapes — but what it grew was bitter and rotten.
He dug it over, cleared it of stones, and planted it with the finest vine. He built a watchtower in its midst and hewed out a wine vat within it. He waited for it to yield good grapes — but it yielded only stinking, worthless ones.
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.
He dug it up and cleared the stones and planted the finest vines. He built a watchtower in the middle and dug out a winepress as well. He waited for the vineyard to yield good grapes, but the fruit it produced was sour!
