15 Bible Verses about Metaphorical Vineyards

Let me sing for my beloved my love song concerning his vineyard: My beloved had a vineyard on a very fertile hill. He dug it and cleared it of stones, and planted it with choice vines; he built a watchtower in the midst of it, and hewed out a wine vat in it; and he looked for it to yield grapes, but it yielded wild grapes. And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem and men of Judah, judge between me and my vineyard.read more.
What more was there to do for my vineyard, that I have not done in it? When I looked for it to yield grapes, why did it yield wild grapes? And now I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard. I will remove its hedge, and it shall be devoured; I will break down its wall, and it shall be trampled down. I will make it a waste; it shall not be pruned or hoed, and briers and thorns shall grow up; I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it. For the vineyard of the LORD of hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah are his pleasant planting; and he looked for justice, but behold, bloodshed; for righteousness, but behold, an outcry!

In that day, "A pleasant vineyard,sing of it!

I, the LORD, am its keeper; every moment I water it. Lest anyone punish it, I keep it night and day;

For the vineyard of the LORD of hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah are his pleasant planting; and he looked for justice, but behold, bloodshed; for righteousness, but behold, an outcry!

The LORD will enter into judgment with the elders and princes of his people: "It is you who have devoured the vineyard, the spoil of the poor is in your houses.

Thus says the LORD of hosts: "They shall glean thoroughly as a vine the remnant of Israel; like a grape-gatherer pass your hand again over its branches."

"For the kingdom of heaven is like a master of a house who went out early in the morning to hire laborers for his vineyard.

and to them he said, 'You go into the vineyard too, and whatever is right I will give you.'

They said to him, 'Because no one has hired us.' He said to them, 'You go into the vineyard too.'

"What do you think? A man had two sons. And he went to the first and said, 'Son, go and work in the vineyard today.'

And when evening came, the owner of the vineyard said to his foreman, 'Call the laborers and pay them their wages, beginning with the last, up to the first.'

And they took him and threw him out of the vineyard and killed him.

When therefore the owner of the vineyard comes, what will he do to those tenants?"

And he told this parable: "A man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard, and he came seeking fruit on it and found none.

"I am the true vine, and my Father is the vinedresser.