Thematic Bible: Vine, a


Thematic Bible




He dug it all around and cleared away its stones,
And planted it with the choicest vine (the people of Judah).
And He built a tower in the center of it;
And also hewed out a wine vat in it.
Then He expected it to produce [the choicest] grapes,
But it produced only worthless ones.
Verse ConceptsAgriculture, TermsFortsExcavationWineskins And Vats


“Yet I had planted you [O house of Israel as] a choice vine,
A completely faithful seed.
How then have you turned against Me
Into degenerate shoots of a foreign and wild vine [alien to Me]?
Verse ConceptsDebaucheryRejection Of God, Results OfVines

Israel is a luxuriant and prolific vine;
He produces fruit for himself.
The more his fruit,
The more altars he made [to Baal];
The richer his land,
The better he made the [idolatrous] pillars.
Verse ConceptsPeace, Human Search ForVinesAltars, PaganSocial SelfishnessFertile LandObelisksBearing Fruit


You uprooted a vine (Israel) from Egypt;
You drove out the [Canaanite] nations and planted the vine [in Canaan].
Verse ConceptsFreedom, Acts Of In OtPlanting VineyardsThe Lord Drove Them Out

Therefore, thus says the Lord God, ‘Like the wood of the grapevine among the trees of the forest, which I have given to the fire for fuel, so have I given up the people of Jerusalem; Verse ConceptsThings Like People

Then it sprouted and grew and became a low, spreading vine whose branches turned [in submission] toward him, but its roots remained under it. So it became a vine and yielded shoots and sent out branches. Verse ConceptsSpreadingSprouting PlantsSmall ThingsSproutingThose Subjected To People


‘Your mother [Jerusalem] was like a vine in your vineyard,
Planted by the waters;
It was fruitful and full of branches
Because of abundant water.
Verse ConceptsFruitfulness, SpiritualRivers And StreamsVineyardAbundance, MaterialWater For PlantsBearing Fruitfruitfulness