Thematic Bible
Thematic Bible
Agriculture » General references to » Called husbandmen
Noah, a man of the soil, planted a vineyard.
Judah and all its cities will dwell together in it, the farmer and the shepherds with the flocks.
I will use you to crush shepherds and their flocks. I will use you to crush farmers and their oxen. I will use you to crush governors and officials.
Listen to Jehovah the God of Hosts, the Almighty: Wailing will be in all the broad ways. They will say in all the streets, Alas! Alas! They will call the farmer to mourning, and the professional mourner to lamentation and crying.
He will say I am no prophet! I am a tiller of the ground. I have been made a slave from my youth.
Listen to another illustration. A master of a house made a vineyard, and put a wall around it. He made a wine press and built a tower. Then he rented it to workers and traveled to another country.
During the season he sent a servant to the field workers that he might receive the fruits of the vineyard.
He will come and destroy the renters and will give the vineyard to others. When they heard it, they said, God forbid!
The hard-working farmer should be first to receive his share of the crops.
Be patient, brothers, until the coming of the Lord. Behold, the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth, being patient over it, until it receive the early and late rains.
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Judah and all its cities will dwell together in it, the farmer and the shepherds with the flocks.
Then he will judge disputes between nations and settle matters between many people. They will beat (hammer) their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks. Nations will not fight against each other, and they will not learn war anymore.