Then the angel of the Lord stood in a path among the vineyards, where there was a wall on either side.

You must not encroach on your neighbor's property, which will have been defined in the inheritance you will obtain in the land the Lord your God is giving you.

Why did you break down its walls, so that all who pass by pluck its fruit?

The way of the sluggard is like a hedge of thorns, but the path of the upright is like a highway.

The sluggard will not plow during the planting season, so at harvest time he looks for the crop but has nothing.

The sluggard says, "There is a lion outside! I will be killed in the middle of the streets!"

The sluggard says, "There is a lion in the road! A lion in the streets!"

One who digs a pit may fall into it, and one who breaks through a wall may be bitten by a snake.

Now I will inform you what I am about to do to my vineyard: I will remove its hedge and turn it into pasture, I will break its wall and allow animals to graze there.

Disaster will be inescapable, as if a man ran from a lion only to meet a bear, then escaped into a house, leaned his hand against the wall, and was bitten by a poisonous snake.

The best of them is like a thorn; the most godly among them are more dangerous than a row of thorn bushes. The day you try to avoid by posting watchmen -- your appointed time of punishment -- is on the way, and then you will experience confusion.

Your courtiers are like locusts, your officials are like a swarm of locusts! They encamp in the walls on a cold day, yet when the sun rises, they fly away; and no one knows where they are.

"Listen to another parable: There was a landowner who planted a vineyard. He put a fence around it, dug a pit for its winepress, and built a watchtower. Then he leased it to tenant farmers and went on a journey.

So the master said to his slave, 'Go out to the highways and country roads and urge people to come in, so that my house will be filled.

You have broken down all his walls; you have made his strongholds a heap of ruins.

Now I will inform you what I am about to do to my vineyard: I will remove its hedge and turn it into pasture, I will break its wall and allow animals to graze there.

"Listen to another parable: There was a landowner who planted a vineyard. He put a fence around it, dug a pit for its winepress, and built a watchtower. Then he leased it to tenant farmers and went on a journey.

Then he began to speak to them in parables: "A man planted a vineyard. He put a fence around it, dug a pit for its winepress, and built a watchtower. Then he leased it to tenant farmers and went on a journey.

So the master said to his slave, 'Go out to the highways and country roads and urge people to come in, so that my house will be filled.

I saw that thorns had grown up all over it, the ground was covered with weeds, and its stone wall was broken down.

At the beginning of the wall of the court toward the south, facing the courtyard and the building, were chambers