Many pastors have destroyed my vineyard,.... This is a metaphor which is often used of the people of Israel and Judah; see Ps 80:8, the pastors that destroyed them are not their own governors, civil or religious, but Heathen princes, Nebuchadnezzar and his generals.
So the Targum paraphrases it,"many kings slay my people;''so Kimchi and Ben Melech.They have trodden my portion under foot; the people of the Jews, that were his portion, and before called his heritage; whom the Chaldeans subdued, and reduced to extreme servitude and bondage; and were as the dirt under their feet, greatly oppressed and despised.