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Summary

Many pastors have destroyed my vineyard, they have trodden my portion under foot, they have made my pleasant portion a desolate wilderness.

Pleasant portion

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Bible References

My vineyard

Psalm 80:8
You uprooted a vine from Egypt; you drove out nations and transplanted it.
Isaiah 5:1
I will sing to my love -- a song to my lover about his vineyard. My love had a vineyard on a fertile hill.
Luke 20:9
Then he began to tell the people this parable: "A man planted a vineyard, leased it to tenant farmers, and went on a journey for a long time.

Trodden

Isaiah 43:28
So I defiled your holy princes, and handed Jacob over to destruction, and subjected Israel to humiliating abuse."
Isaiah 63:18
For a short time your special nation possessed a land, but then our adversaries knocked down your holy sanctuary.
Lamentations 1:10
(Yod) An enemy grabbed all her valuables. Indeed she watched in horror as Gentiles invaded her holy temple -- those whom you had commanded: "They must not enter your assembly place."
Luke 21:14
Therefore be resolved not to rehearse ahead of time how to make your defense.
Revelation 11:2
But do not measure the outer courtyard of the temple; leave it out, because it has been given to the Gentiles, and they will trample on the holy city for forty-two months.

Pleasant portion

Jeremiah 3:19
"I thought to myself, 'Oh what a joy it would be for me to treat you like a son! What a joy it would be for me to give you a pleasant land, the most beautiful piece of property there is in all the world!' I thought you would call me, 'Father' and would never cease being loyal to me.

General references

Ezekiel 12:20
The inhabited towns will be left in ruins and the land will be devastated. Then you will know that I am the Lord.'"

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