Isaiah 5:6

Let briars come out instead of wheat, And stinkweed instead of barley.” The words of Job are ended.

And it will be in that day, that every place where there used to be one thousand vines, valued at one thousand shekels of silver, will become briars and thorns.

Within a year and a few days You will quake, O complacent daughters; For the grape harvest is ended, And the fruit gathering will not come.

For the land of my people in which thorns and briars shall come up, Indeed, against all the joyful houses and the exultant city.

“For your devastated and desolate places and your destroyed land— Surely now you will be too cramped for the inhabitants, And those who swallowed you will be far away.

“Instead of the thorn bush the cypress will come up, And instead of the nettle the myrtle will come up, And it will be to Yahweh for His renown, For an everlasting sign which will not be cut off.”

“Many shepherds have ruined My vineyard; They have trampled down My portion; They have made My desired portion A desolate wilderness.

“The prophets who were before me and before you from ancient times prophesied against many lands and against great kingdoms, of war and of calamity and of pestilence.

“Son of man, how is the wood of the vine better than any wood of a branch which is among the trees of the forest?

For behold, they will go because of destruction; Egypt will gather them up; Memphis will bury them. Weeds will possess their desirable items of silver; Thorns will be in their tents.

Israel is a luxuriant vine; He produces fruit for himself. The more abundant his fruit, The more altars he abounded; The better his land, The better he made the sacred pillars.

It has made my vine a desolation And my fig tree splinters. It has stripped them bare and cast them away; Their branches have become white.

“And I also withheld the rain from you While there were still three months until harvest. Then I would send rain on one city, And on another city I would not send rain; One portion would be rained on, While the portion not rained on would dry up.

“I am the true vine, and My Father is the vine-grower.