The Vineyard of the Lord Destroyed
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Now let me sing to my Well-beloved
A song of my Beloved a regarding His vineyard:
My Well-beloved has a vineyard
On a very fruitful hill.
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He dug it up and cleared out its stones,
And planted it with the choicest vine.
He built a tower in its midst,
And also made a winepress in it;
b So He expected it to bring forth good grapes,
But it brought forth wild grapes.
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"And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem and men of Judah,
c Judge, please, between Me and My vineyard.
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What more could have been done to My vineyard
That I have not done in d it?
Why then, when I expected it to bring forth good grapes,
Did it bring forth wild grapes?
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And now, please let Me tell you what I will do to My vineyard:
e I will take away its hedge, and it shall be burned;
And break down its wall, and it shall be trampled down.
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I will lay it f waste;
It shall not be pruned or dug,
But there shall come up briers and g thorns.
I will also command the clouds
That they rain no rain on it."
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For the vineyard of the LORD of hosts is the house of Israel,
And the men of Judah are His pleasant plant.
He looked for justice, but behold, oppression;
For righteousness, but behold, a cry for help.
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Cross References
Psalms 80:8
You have brought a vine out of Egypt; You have cast out the nations, and planted it.
Jeremiah 2:21
Yet I had planted you a noble vine, a seed of highest quality. How then have you turned before Me Into the degenerate plant of an alien vine?
Matthew 21:33
Hear another parable: There was a certain landowner who planted a vineyard and set a hedge around it, dug a winepress in it and built a tower. And he leased it to vinedressers and went into a far country.
Mark 12:1
Then He began to speak to them in parables: "A man planted a vineyard and set a hedge around it, dug a place for the wine vat and built a tower. And he leased it to vinedressers and went into a far country.
Luke 20:9
Then He began to tell the people this parable: "A certain man planted a vineyard, leased it to vinedressers, and went into a far country for a long time.
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Cross References
Deuteronomy 32:6
Do you thus deal with the LORD, O foolish and unwise people? Is He not your Father, who bought you? Has He not made you and established you?
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Cross References
Romans 3:4
Certainly not! Indeed, let God be true but every man a liar. As it is written: "That You may be justified in Your words, And may overcome when You are judged.
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Cross References
2 Chronicles 36:15
And the LORD God of their fathers sent warnings...
2 Chronicles 36:16
But they mocked the messengers of God, despised...
Jeremiah 2:5
Thus says the LORD: "What injustice have your f...
Jeremiah 7:25
Since the day that your fathers came out of the...
Jeremiah 7:26
Yet they did not obey Me or incline their ear, ...
Micah 6:3
O My people, what have I done to you? And how h...
Matthew 23:37
O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the one who kills the p...
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Cross References
2 Chronicles 36:19
Then they burned the house of God, broke down the wall of Jerusalem, burned all its palaces with fire, and destroyed all its precious possessions.
Psalms 80:12
Why have You broken down her hedges, So that all who pass by the way pluck her fruit?
Psalms 89:40
You have broken down all his hedges; You have brought his strongholds to ruin.
Psalms 89:41
All who pass by the way plunder him; He is a reproach to his neighbors.
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Cross References
2 Chronicles 36:19 - 21
Then they burned the house of God, broke down the wall of Jerusalem, burned all its palaces with fire, and destroyed all its precious possessions.
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Cross References
Isaiah 7:19 - 25
They will come, and all of them will rest In the desolate valleys and in the clefts of the rocks, And on all thorns and in all pastures.
Jeremiah 25:11
And this whole land shall be a desolation and an astonishment, and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years.
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