The Lord laments that in spite of all his nurturing, tender care, and mercy, the vineyard continues to produce wild fruit. This is astonishing because the vine that was planted was choice, the land was good, and the lord of the vineyard had done all he could do to produce good fruit. The language of this verse is much like that in the allegory of the olive tree, 'What could I have done more for my vineyard?' (Jacob 5:41). Jeremiah prophesies in a similar fashion, 'Yet I had planted thee a noble vine, wholly a right seed: how then art thou turned into the degenerate plant of a strange vine unto me?' (Jer 2:21).