15 Bible Verses about Metaphorical Vineyards
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I will sing about the one I love,
a song about my loved one’s vineyard:
The one I love had a vineyard
on a very fertile hill.
He broke up the soil, cleared it of stones,
and planted it with the finest vines.
He built a tower in the middle of it
and even dug out a winepress there.
He expected it to yield good grapes,
but it yielded worthless grapes. So now, residents of Jerusalem
and men of Judah,
please judge between Me
and My vineyard.
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What more could I have done for My vineyard
than I did?
Why, when I expected a yield of good grapes,
did it yield worthless grapes?
Now I will tell you
what I am about to do to My vineyard:
I will remove its hedge,
and it will be consumed;
I will tear down its wall,
and it will be trampled.
I will make it a wasteland.
It will not be pruned or weeded;
thorns and briers will grow up.
I will also give orders to the clouds
that rain should not fall on it.
For the vineyard of the Lord of Hosts
is the house of Israel,
and the men of Judah,
the plant He delighted in.
He looked for justice
but saw injustice,
for righteousness,
but heard cries of wretchedness.
I, Yahweh, watch over it;
I water it regularly.
I guard it night and day
so that no one disturbs it.
For the vineyard of the Lord of Hosts
is the house of Israel,
and the men of Judah,
the plant He delighted in.
He looked for justice
but saw injustice,
for righteousness,
but heard cries of wretchedness.
The Lord brings this charge
against the elders and leaders of His people:
“You have devastated the vineyard.
The plunder from the poor is in your houses.
This is what the Lord of Hosts says:
Glean the remnant of Israel
as thoroughly as a vine.
Pass your hand once more like a grape gatherer
over the branches.
“For the kingdom of heaven is like a landowner who went out early in the morning to hire workers for his vineyard.
To those men he said, ‘You also go to my vineyard, and I’ll give you whatever is right.’ So off they went.
“‘Because no one hired us,’ they said to him.
“‘You also go to my vineyard,’ he told them.
“But what do you think? A man had two sons. He went to the first and said, ‘My son, go, work in the vineyard today.’
When evening came, the owner of the vineyard told his foreman, ‘Call the workers and give them their pay, starting with the last and ending with the first.’
Therefore, when the owner of the vineyard comes, what will he do to those farmers?”
And He told this parable: “A man had a fig tree that was planted in his vineyard. He came looking for fruit on it and found none.
