Then began he to put forth to the people this similitude, "A certain man planted a vineyard, and let it forth to farmers, and went himself into a strange country for a great season.

Trodden

Therefore I either suspended, or slew the chiefest princes: I did curse Jacob, and gave Israel into reproof."

Thy people hath had but little of thy Sanctuary in possession, for our enemies have taken it in:

{Yod} The enemy hath put his hand to all the precious things that she had, yea even before her eyes came the Heathen in and out of the Sanctuary: whom thou, nevertheless, hast forbidden to come within thy congregation.

Let it stick therefore fast in your hearts, not once to study before, what ye shall answer for yourselves:

but the court which is without the temple cast out, and mete it not: for it is given unto the gentiles, and the holy city shall they tread under foot forty two months.

Pleasant portion

"'I have showed also, how I took thee up being but a child, and gave thee a pleasant land for thine heritage; yea, and a goodly Host of the Heathen: and how I commanded thee, that thou shouldest call me Father only, and not to shrink from me.

General references

And the cities that now be well occupied, shall be void, and the land desolate: that ye may know how that I am the LORD.'"