"You will plant a vineyard in Egypt." What is this vine that they cultivate, and it remains silent; they tread on it, and it remains silent, and in the end, its wine causes harm to a person and causes him to stumble. So too is Israel among the nations of the world. And what is this vine?
They throw stones and thorns at it, and in the end, when it produces wine, it rises to the person's head and he is punished. So too is Israel, as it is said: "Israel is holy to the Lord, the first of His crops" (Jeremiah 2:3). Why have you broken down its fences? Just as with this vineyard, when it is broken down, all who pass by trample it and plunder it, so too is Israel, in Babylon, Media, Greece, and Edom, they were plundered and their army leaders were brought to Babylon as captives, as it is said: "All who pass by plunder him" (Psalms 80:13).