The LORD’s Vineyard
(John 15:1–8)
In that day the LORD will take His sharp, great, and mighty sword, and bring judgment on Leviathan the fleeing serpent 1—Leviathan the coiling serpent—and He will slay the dragon of the sea. Ezk 29:3Isa 51:9Isa 66:16Rev 12:3Job 26:13Psa 104:26Rev 20:2Psa 74:13-14 In that day: Jer 2:21Isa 5:1-7Luk 20:9-18Mat 21:33-46Num 21:17Psa 80:8-19
“Sing about a fruitful vineyard.
I, the LORD, am its keeper; Isa 58:11Jhn 15:1-21Sa 2:9Psa 121:3-5Ezk 34:11Ezk 37:14Ezk 34:24Isa 46:9
I water it continually.
I guard it night and day
so no one can disturb it;
I am not angry. Heb 6:8Isa 10:17Mat 3:122Sa 23:6Psa 85:32Pe 2:9Ezk 16:63Isa 12:1
If only thorns and briers confronted Me,
I would march and trample them,
I would burn them to the ground.
Or let them lay claim to My protection; Isa 25:4Job 22:21Eph 2:16-172Co 5:19-21Col 1:20-21Ezk 34:25-26Heb 6:18Hos 2:18-20
let them make peace with Me—
yes, let them make peace with Me.”
In the days to come, Jacob will take root. Isa 37:31Hos 14:5-6Rom 11:16-26Hos 2:23Isa 54:1-3Psa 92:13-15Zec 2:11Isa 60:22
Israel will bud and blossom
and fill the whole world with fruit.
Has the LORD struck Israel as He struck her oppressors? Isa 37:36-38Dan 2:31-35Isa 10:20-25Isa 14:22-23Isa 17:14Isa 17:3Jer 30:11-16Jer 50:33-34
Was she killed like those who slayed her?
By warfare and exile 2You contended with her Ezk 19:12Hos 4:1Jer 10:24Jer 4:111Pe 1:6Hos 13:15Hos 6:1-2Jer 2:17-37
and removed her with a fierce wind,
as on the day the east wind blows.
Therefore Jacob’s guilt will be atoned for, Isa 48:10Rom 11:27Dan 11:35Isa 17:81Co 11:322Ch 14:52Ch 34:42Ch 36:19
and the full fruit of the removal of his sin will be this: 3
When he makes all the altar stones
like crushed bits of chalk,
no Asherah poles or incense altars
will remain standing.
For the fortified city lies deserted— Isa 17:2Isa 17:9Isa 32:13-14Jer 26:18Jer 26:6Mic 3:12Ezk 36:4Isa 25:2
a homestead abandoned, a wilderness forsaken.
There the calves graze, and there they lie down;
they strip its branches bare.
When its limbs are dry, Isa 1:3Isa 43:1Isa 43:7Isa 44:24Jer 8:7Ezk 9:10Jer 4:22Jhn 15:6
they are broken off.
Women come and use them for kindling;
for this is a people without understanding.
Therefore their Maker has no compassion on them,
and their Creator shows them no favor.
In that day the LORD will thresh from the flowing Euphrates 4to the Wadi of Egypt, and you, O Israelites, will be gathered one by one. Gen 15:18Deu 30:3-4Isa 56:8Neh 1:9Amo 9:9Isa 11:11-16Isa 17:6Isa 24:13-16 And in that day a great ram’s horn will sound, and those who were perishing in Assyria will come forth with those who were exiles in Egypt. And they will worship the LORD on the holy mountain in Jerusalem. Mat 24:31Lev 25:9Heb 12:22Isa 19:23-251Ch 15:24Isa 11:16Luk 4:18Zec 14:16