15 Bible Verses about Metaphorical Vineyards

Let me sing to my loved one a song of my beloved concerning his vineyard: My loved one had a vineyard on a fertile hill. He dug the soil all around and removed its stones. He planted it with the choicest vine. And he built a tower in the middle of it and also hewed out a wine vat in it. Then he expected it to produce good grapes, but it only produced worthless ones. Now then, you inhabitants of Jerusalem and Judah, judge between my vineyard and me!read more.
What more could have been done for my vineyard than what I have already done for it? When I waited for it to produce good grapes, why did it produce only sour, wild grapes? Here is what I am going to do to my vineyard: I will take away the hedge and break down the wall that protects it. I will let wild animals eat it and trample it down. It will turn into a desert, neither pruned nor cultivated. It will be covered with thorns and briars. I will command the clouds not to send rain. I am Jehovah of Hosts (All Powerful)! Israel is the vineyard, and Judah is the garden I tended with care. I had hoped for honesty and for justice, but dishonesty and cries for mercy were all I found.

In that day sing about a fruitful vineyard:

I, Jehovah, watch over it. I water it continually. I guard it day and night so that no one may harm it.

I am Jehovah of Hosts (All Powerful)! Israel is the vineyard, and Judah is the garden I tended with care. I had hoped for honesty and for justice, but dishonesty and cries for mercy were all I found.

Jehovah enters into judgment with the elders and princes of his people: It is you who have devoured the vineyard. The plunder of the poor is in your houses.

Jehovah of Hosts says: They will thoroughly glean as the vine the remnant of Israel. Pass your hand again like a grape gatherer over the baskets.

The kingdom of heaven is like the master of a house, who went out early in the morning to hire workers for his vineyard.

He said to them: 'Go to the vineyard with the others. I will pay you whatever is right.' So they went to work.

They said: 'No man has given us work.' He told them to go work with the rest in the vineyard.

What do you think? A man had two sons. He asked the first to work today in the vineyard.

When evening came, the lord of the vineyard said to his manager: 'Let the workers come and pay them from the last to the first.'

They took him out of the vineyard and killed him.

When the lord of the vineyard returns, what will he do to the workmen?

Jesus told them an illustration: There was a man who had a fig tree growing in his vineyard. He looked for figs on it but found none.

I am the true vine, and my Father is the cultivator.