Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

General references

Bible References

My vineyard

Psalm 80:8
You brought a vine out of Egypt. You drove out the nations, and planted it.
Isaiah 5:1
Let me sing for my well beloved a song of my beloved about his vineyard. My beloved had a vineyard on a very fruitful hill.
Luke 20:9
He began to tell the people this parable. "A man planted a vineyard, and rented it out to some farmers, and went on a journey for a long time.

Trodden

Isaiah 43:28
Therefore I will profane the princes of the sanctuary; and I will make Jacob a curse, and Israel a reviling."
Isaiah 63:18
Your holy people possessed it but a little while: our adversaries have trodden down your sanctuary.
Lamentations 1:10
The adversary has spread out his hand on all her precious things: for she has seen that the nations have entered into her sanctuary, concerning whom you commanded that they should not enter into your assembly.
Luke 21:14
Settle it therefore in your hearts not to meditate beforehand how to answer,
Revelation 11:2
Leave out the court which is outside of the temple, and do not measure it, for it has been given to the nations. They will tread the holy city under foot for forty-two months.

Pleasant portion

Jeremiah 3:19
"But I said, 'How I would put you among the children, and give you a pleasant land, a goodly heritage of the armies of the nations.' and I said, 'You shall call me "My Father," and shall not turn away from following me.'

General references

Ezekiel 12:20
The cities that are inhabited shall be laid waste, and the land shall be a desolation; and you shall know that I am the LORD.'"