2 Nephi 15:1 - 15:5
2 Nephi 15:1 And then will I sing to my well-beloved a song of my beloved, touching his vineyard. My well-beloved hath a vineyard in a very fruitful hill.
Israel will be compared to a vineyard. The vineyard being the object of affection by the owner of the vineyard. And the vineyard being planted in a very fertile piece of ground.
2 Nephi 15:2 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 wine-press therein; and he looked that it should bring forth grapes, and it brought forth wild grapes.
The owner of the vineyard, being the Lord of course, hoping for a good harvest of grapes, did such things as remove the rocks from the ground, planted only the best plants, built protection against intruders and the wine press close by so that their would no spoilage of the grapes in transport of the grapes to extract the juice. But in spite of all the owners work, the vineyard produced only wild grapes.
2 Nephi 15:3 And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem, and men of Judah, judge, I pray you, betwixt me and my vineyard.
The Lord then asked the people of Jerusalem to assess His actions in relation to them.
2 Nephi 15:4 What could have been done more to my vineyard that I have not done in it? Wherefore, when I looked that it should bring forth grapes it brought forth wild grapes.
What could the Lord have done more to help His people become a righteous people? In spite of all preparations and effort to provide the perfect environment of their spiritual growth, they turn out to be wicked people instead.
2 Nephi 15:5 And now go to; I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard—I will take away the hedge thereof, and it shall be eaten up; and I will break down the wall thereof, and it shall be trodden down;
Well, this is what the Lord will do now. He will remove all protection from Jerusalem. They will now to susceptible to attack from enemies all around them. They will not longer have His protection. There present fortifications will not hold back invaders and they will have to fight on their own any who come to destroy them.
