Jeremiah 24:2
One basket had very good figs, like first-ripe figs, and the other basket had very bad figs that could not be eaten because they were rotten.
Isaiah 5:4
What more could have been done for my vineyard than what I have already done for it? When I waited for it to produce good grapes, why did it produce only sour, wild grapes?
Isaiah 5:7
I am Jehovah of Hosts (All Powerful)! Israel is the vineyard, and Judah is the garden I tended with care. I had hoped for honesty and for justice, but dishonesty and cries for mercy were all I found.
Micah 7:1
Too bad for me! For I am like the gathered summer fruit, as the grape gleanings of the vintage. There is no cluster to eat. I desire the first ripe fig.
Jeremiah 24:5-10
Jehovah the God of Israel says: 'Like these good figs, so I will regard the captives of Judah as good. I have sent them out of this place into the land of the Chaldeans.
Jeremiah 29:17
Jehovah of Hosts says: I am going to send them wars, famines, and plagues. These people are like rotten figs to me, figs that are so bad that they cannot be eaten.
Ezekiel 15:2-5
Son of man, how is the wood of the vine better than any wood of a branch among the trees of the forest?
Hosea 9:10
I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness. I saw your forefathers as the earliest fruit on the fig tree in its first season. They came to Baal-peor and devoted themselves to shame. They became as detestable as that which they loved.
Malachi 1:12-14
You profane it by saying: 'The table of Jehovah is polluted and the fruit and food on it is contemptible.'
Matthew 5:13
You are the salt of the earth. If its taste goes away, how will you restore it? It is good for nothing. All you can do is throw it on the ground and walk on it.