But the captain of the guard left some of the poorest of the land to be vinedressers and plowmen.

He built towers in the wilderness and hewed many cisterns, for he had much livestock, both in the lowland and in the plain. He also had plowmen and vinedressers in the hill country and the fertile fields, for he loved the soil.

Strangers will stand and pasture your flocks,
And foreigners will be your farmers and your vinedressers.

But Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard left some of the poorest of the land to be vinedressers and plowmen.

Be ashamed, O farmers,
Wail, O vinedressers,
For the wheat and the barley;
Because the harvest of the field is destroyed.