Thematic Bible
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Agriculture » General references to » Called husbandmen
Noah, a man of the soil, began to plant a vineyard.
The land of Judah will be inhabited by people who live in its towns as well as by farmers and shepherds with their flocks.
I used you to smash shepherds and their flocks. I used you to smash farmers and their teams of oxen. I used you to smash governors and leaders."
Because of Israel's sins this is what the Lord, the God who commands armies, the sovereign One, says: "In all the squares there will be wailing, in all the streets they will mourn the dead. They will tell the field workers to lament and the professional mourners to wail.
Instead he will say, 'I am no prophet -- indeed, I am a farmer, for a man has made me his indentured servant since my youth.'
"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.
At harvest time he sent a slave to the tenants to collect from them his portion of the crop.
He will come and destroy those tenants and give the vineyard to others." When the people heard this, they said, "May this never happen!"
The farmer who works hard ought to have the first share of the crops.
So be patient, brothers and sisters, until the Lord's return. Think of how the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the ground and is patient for it until it receives the early and late rains.
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The land of Judah will be inhabited by people who live in its towns as well as by farmers and shepherds with their flocks.
He will judge disputes between nations; he will settle cases for many peoples. They will beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks. Nations will not take up the sword against other nations, and they will no longer train for war.