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Isaiah 5:1-7
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Now will I sing to my wellbeloved a song of my beloved touching his vineyard. My wellbeloved hath a vineyard in a very fruitful hill:
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And he fenced it, and gathered out the stones thereof, and planted it with the choicest vine, and built a tower in the midst of it, and also made a winepress therein: and he looked that it should bring forth grapes, and it brought forth wild grapes.
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And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem, and men of Judah, judge, I pray you, betwixt me and my vineyard.
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What could have been done more to my vineyard, that I have not done in it? wherefore, when I looked that it should bring forth grapes, brought it forth wild grapes?
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And now go to; I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard: I will take away the hedge thereof, and it shall be eaten up; and break down the wall thereof, and it shall be trodden down:
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And I will lay it waste: it shall not be pruned, nor digged; but there shall come up briers and thorns: I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it.
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For the vineyard of the LORD of hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasant plant: and he looked for judgment, but behold oppression; for righteousness, but behold a cry.
Numbers 21:17
Then Israel sang this song, Spring up, O well; sing ye unto it:
A vineyard
Psalm 80:8-19
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Thou hast brought a vine out of Egypt: thou hast cast out the heathen, and planted it.
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Thou preparedst room before it, and didst cause it to take deep root, and it filled the land.
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The hills were covered with the shadow of it, and the boughs thereof were like the goodly cedars.
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She sent out her boughs unto the sea, and her branches unto the river.
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Why hast thou then broken down her hedges, so that all they which pass by the way do pluck her?
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The boar out of the wood doth waste it, and the wild beast of the field doth devour it.
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Return, we beseech thee, O God of hosts: look down from heaven, and behold, and visit this vine;
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And the vineyard which thy right hand hath planted, and the branch that thou madest strong for thyself.
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It is burned with fire, it is cut down: they perish at the rebuke of thy countenance.
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Let thy hand be upon the man of thy right hand, upon the son of man whom thou madest strong for thyself.
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So will not we go back from thee: quicken us, and we will call upon thy name.
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Turn us again, O LORD God of hosts, cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved.
Jeremiah 2:21
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?
Matthew 21:33-46
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Hear another parable: There was a certain householder, which planted a vineyard, and hedged it round about, and digged a winepress in it, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and went into a far country:
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And when the time of the fruit drew near, he sent his servants to the husbandmen, that they might receive the fruits of it.
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And the husbandmen took his servants, and beat one, and killed another, and stoned another.
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Again, he sent other servants more than the first: and they did unto them likewise.
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But last of all he sent unto them his son, saying, They will reverence my son.
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But when the husbandmen saw the son, they said among themselves, This is the heir; come, let us kill him, and let us seize on his inheritance.
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And they caught him, and cast him out of the vineyard, and slew him.
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When the lord therefore of the vineyard cometh, what will he do unto those husbandmen?
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They say unto him, He will miserably destroy those wicked men, and will let out his vineyard unto other husbandmen, which shall render him the fruits in their seasons.
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Jesus saith unto them, Did ye never read in the scriptures, The stone which the builders rejected, the same is become the head of the corner: this is the Lord's doing, and it is marvellous in our eyes?
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Therefore say I unto you, The kingdom of God shall be taken from you, and given to a nation bringing forth the fruits thereof.
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And whosoever shall fall on this stone shall be broken: but on whomsoever it shall fall, it will grind him to powder.
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And when the chief priests and Pharisees had heard his parables, they perceived that he spake of them.
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But when they sought to lay hands on him, they feared the multitude, because they took him for a prophet.
Luke 20:9-18
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Then began he to speak to the people this parable; A certain man planted a vineyard, and let it forth to husbandmen, and went into a far country for a long time.
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And at the season he sent a servant to the husbandmen, that they should give him of the fruit of the vineyard: but the husbandmen beat him, and sent him away empty.
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And again he sent another servant: and they beat him also, and entreated him shamefully, and sent him away empty.
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And again he sent a third: and they wounded him also, and cast him out.
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Then said the lord of the vineyard, What shall I do? I will send my beloved son: it may be they will reverence him when they see him.
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But when the husbandmen saw him, they reasoned among themselves, saying, This is the heir: come, let us kill him, that the inheritance may be ours.
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So they cast him out of the vineyard, and killed him. What therefore shall the lord of the vineyard do unto them?
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He shall come and destroy these husbandmen, and shall give the vineyard to others. And when they heard it, they said, God forbid.
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And he beheld them, and said, What is this then that is written, The stone which the builders rejected, the same is become the head of the corner?
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Whosoever shall fall upon that stone shall be broken; but on whomsoever it shall fall, it will grind him to powder.