A song about the Lord God and His vineyard, Isa 5:1.

Now the owner of the vineyard did everything He could
to make this a very fruitful vineyard!

“He dug it up,
Gathered out its stones,
Planted it with the choicest vine,
Built a tower in its midst,
And also cut out a winepress therein.
He looked for it to yield grapes,
But it yielded wild grapes.”
Isa 5:2

This is just the normal thing to do to get a very good vineyard in that country. Clear out all of the rocks, build a wall, get some of best vine stock. All to get raisins and grapes and wine to provide both nourishment, needed sugar in the diet, of course God’s gift of,

“Wine that makes glad the heart of man, …”
Psa 104:15a

This is in all a good analogy of the God’s people doing both right and prospering. A vineyard is a farm crop that requires both special preparation and care, and vigilant guarding to produce a good crop. Then it requires special processing to make the fruit endure long term.

Now the owner asks Judah and Jerusalem in Isa 5:4, what more could I have done? I did everything I could to make my vineyard fruitful, but all it produced was worthless grapes. The Hebrew word used is beushim, for something worthless, or that stinks.

The owner says He will tear down the walls that protect the property, and it will be laid waste, Isa 5:5-6. And what is this all about?

“For the vineyard of Yahweh of Hosts
is the house of Israel,
And the men of Judah his pleasant plant: …”
Isa 5:7a-b

“And he looked for justice, but, behold, oppression;
For righteousness, but, behold, a cry of distress.”
Isa 5:7c-d

Then many woes are pronounced on the men of Judah and Jerusalem in Isaiah. Woe to those who tie up all the land, until there is no room, even as many of the rich and even the governments do all over the world. Mystery Babylon the Great wants populations concentrated for profits and control. God says He will make these lands both desolate and unproductive and they will go into captivity, Isa 5:8-10. All of which happened, but it failed to quench the worldly instincts of the Jews.

Only a remnant of the people were finally allowed to return to their land in the days of Ezra, Nehemiah, Haggai, and Zechariah. Even then they were enslaving the poor of their own people (Neh 5:5), marrying outside the faith (Neh 13:25-27), and concentrating on themselves, instead of the Everlasting God who is the only source of permanent and eternal wealth and prosperity (Neh 13:11-12 etc., Hag 1:9).

To this day the Jews as a group are hardened against
the word of the Lord!

Their concentration on money is legendary age long. Sorcery and the occult were still powerful influences among the Jews of the time of Malachi (Mal 3:5), and the New Testament of the Messiah (Acts 13:6, etc.), and through the Kabbalah it is so even to this day.

Scriptures are from the World English Bible WEB, a copyright free revision
of the original ASV American Standard Version 1901.