Thematic Bible: Joh 15
Thematic Bible
Vine » Joh 15 » Israe,l compared to an unfruitful vine
He dug it up, gathered out its stones, planted it with the choicest vine, built a tower in its midst, and also cut out a winepress therein. He looked for it to yield grapes, but it yielded wild grapes.
Yet I had planted you a noble vine, wholly a right seed. How then have you turned into the degenerate branches of a foreign vine to me?
Israel is a luxuriant vine that puts forth his fruit. According to the abundance of his fruit he has multiplied his altars. As their land has prospered, they have adorned their sacred stones.
You brought a vine out of Egypt. You drove out the nations, and planted it.
Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: As the vine tree among the trees of the forest, which I have given to the fire for fuel, so will I give the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
It grew, and became a spreading vine of low stature, whose branches turned toward him, and its roots were under him: so it became a vine, and brought forth branches, and shot forth sprigs.
Your mother was like a vine, in your blood, planted by the waters: it was fruitful and full of branches by reason of many waters.
Related Topics
- Abundance, Material
- Agriculture, Terms
- Altars, Pagan
- Bearing Fruit
- Debauchery
- Excavation
- Fertile Land
- Forts
- Freedom, Acts Of In Ot
- Fruitfulness, Spiritual