Let me sing for my well beloved a song of my beloved about his vineyard. Mrk 12:1Luk 20:9Jhn 15:1Jer 2:21Mat 21:33Psa 80:8Deu 31:19-22Sng 2:16
My beloved had a vineyard on a very fruitful hill.
He dug it up, Jer 2:21Deu 32:32-33Isa 1:2-41Co 9:7Luk 13:6-7Mrk 11:13Rev 14:18-20Luk 20:10-18
gathered out its stones,
planted it with the choicest vine,
built a tower in the middle of it,
and also cut out a wine press in it.
He looked for it to yield grapes,
but it yielded wild grapes.
“Now, inhabitants of Jerusalem and men of Judah, Jer 2:4-5Luk 20:15-16Mat 21:40-41Mic 6:2-3Mrk 12:9-12Psa 50:4-6Psa 51:4Rom 2:5
please judge between me and my vineyard.
What could have been done more to my vineyard, that I have not done in it? Mat 23:37Mic 6:3-4Act 7:51-60Jer 2:5Ezk 24:13Isa 1:5Jer 2:30-31Jer 6:29-30
Why, when I looked for it to yield grapes, did it yield wild grapes?
Now I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard. Isa 28:18Lam 1:15Luk 21:24Deu 28:49-52Gen 11:4Gen 11:7Isa 10:6Isa 28:3
I will take away its hedge, and it will be eaten up.
I will break down its wall, and it will be trampled down.
I will lay it a wasteland. Isa 7:23-25Jer 25:11Isa 24:1-31Ki 17:12Ch 36:19-21Amo 4:7Deu 28:23-24Deu 29:23
It won’t be pruned or hoed,
but it will grow briers and thorns.
I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain on it.”
For the vineyard of the LORD of Armies is the house of Israel, Psa 80:8-11Jas 5:4Jer 12:10Mat 3:8-101Co 6:8-11Deu 15:9Exo 3:7Isa 1:6
and the men of Judah his pleasant plant.
He looked for justice, but behold, oppression,
for righteousness, but behold, a cry of distress.
Woe to those who join house to house, Mic 2:2Hab 2:9-12Jer 22:13-17Luk 12:16-241Ki 21:16-20Ezk 11:15Ezk 33:24Mat 23:13
who lay field to field, until there is no room,
and you are made to dwell alone in the middle of the land!
In my ears, the LORD of Armies says: “Surely many houses will be desolate, Mat 23:38Amo 3:7Amo 5:11Isa 22:142Ch 36:21Amo 6:11Isa 27:10Isa 5:6
even great and beautiful, unoccupied.
For ten acres 1 of vineyard shall yield one bath, 2 Lev 26:26Hag 1:6Hag 2:16Hag 1:9-11Ezk 45:10-11Jol 1:17Lev 27:16
and a homer 3 of seed shall yield an ephah.” 4
Woe to those who rise up early in the morning, that they may follow strong drink, Pro 23:29-30Pro 20:1Rom 13:13Isa 5:22Ecc 10:16-17Isa 28:7-81Co 6:101Th 5:6-7
who stay late into the night, until wine inflames them!
The harp, lyre, tambourine, and flute, with wine, are at their feasts; Psa 28:5Amo 6:4-6Job 21:11-14Job 34:27Dan 5:23Jud 1:12Dan 5:1-4Gen 31:27
but they don’t respect the work of the LORD,
neither have they considered the operation of his hands.
Therefore my people go into captivity for lack of knowledge. Hos 4:6Isa 1:3Isa 1:7Isa 27:11Jhn 3:19-20Rom 1:282Pe 3:5Isa 42:22-25
Their honorable men are famished,
and their multitudes are parched with thirst.
Therefore Sheol 5 has enlarged its desire, Hab 2:5Luk 21:34Pro 30:16Psa 55:15Isa 30:33Mat 7:13Pro 27:20Rev 20:13-15
and opened its mouth without measure;
and their glory, their multitude, their pomp, and he who rejoices among them, descend into it.
So man is brought low, Isa 2:11Isa 2:9Jer 5:4-51Pe 5:5Dan 4:37Exo 9:17Isa 10:12Isa 10:33
mankind is humbled,
and the eyes of the arrogant ones are humbled;
but the LORD of Armies is exalted in justice, Psa 46:101Ch 29:11Isa 12:41Pe 2:15Ezk 36:23Isa 29:23Ezk 38:23Isa 33:5
and God the Holy One is sanctified in righteousness.
Then the lambs will graze as in their pasture, Zep 2:6Isa 7:25Zep 2:14Amo 4:1-3Deu 28:33Deu 32:15Hos 8:7Isa 1:7
and strangers will eat the ruins of the rich.
Woe to those who draw iniquity with cords of falsehood, Jer 23:14Ezk 13:22Jer 23:10Jer 5:31Psa 36:22Sa 16:20-23Act 26:9Ezk 13:10-11
and wickedness as with cart rope,
who say, “Let him make haste, let him hasten his work, that we may see it; Ezk 12:22Jer 17:152Pe 3:3-4Amo 5:18-19Isa 66:5Jer 23:36Jer 5:12-13Ezk 12:27
let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel draw near and come,
that we may know it!”
Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil; Pro 17:152Ti 3:1-5Luk 16:15Mal 2:17Job 17:12Mat 6:22-232Pe 2:12Pe 2:18-19
who put darkness for light,
and light for darkness;
who put bitter for sweet,
and sweet for bitter!
Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes, 1Co 3:18-20Pro 3:7Rom 12:16Pro 26:12Pro 26:16Jhn 9:41Job 11:12Rom 1:22
and prudent in their own sight!
Woe to those who are mighty to drink wine, Isa 5:11Hab 2:15Isa 28:7Isa 56:12Pro 23:19-20Isa 28:1-3
and champions at mixing strong drink;
who acquit the guilty for a bribe, Isa 10:2Jas 5:6Pro 17:15Psa 94:21Isa 1:23Mic 3:11Mic 7:3Pro 31:4-5
but deny justice for the innocent!
Therefore as the tongue of fire devours the stubble, Isa 30:12Job 18:16Jol 2:5Luk 3:17Isa 47:14Exo 15:7Isa 30:91Co 3:12-13
and as the dry grass sinks down in the flame,
so their root shall be as rottenness,
and their blossom shall go up as dust,
because they have rejected the law of the LORD of Armies,
and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.
Therefore the LORD’s anger burns against his people, Isa 10:4Isa 9:212Ki 9:37Isa 9:17Dan 9:16Jer 4:241Th 2:162Ch 36:16
and he has stretched out his hand against them and has struck them.
The mountains tremble,
and their dead bodies are as refuse in the middle of the streets.
For all this, his anger is not turned away,
but his hand is still stretched out.
He will lift up a banner to the nations from far away, Zec 10:8Deu 28:49Isa 7:18Isa 18:3Isa 11:12Mal 1:11Hab 1:8Isa 13:2
and he will whistle for them from the end of the earth.
Behold, they will come speedily and swiftly.
No one shall be weary nor stumble among them; Job 12:18Jol 2:7-8Job 12:211Ki 2:5Dan 5:6Deu 32:25Eph 6:13-14Isa 11:5
no one shall slumber nor sleep,
neither shall the belt of their waist be untied,
nor the strap of their sandals be broken,
whose arrows are sharp, Psa 45:5Ezk 21:9-11Nam 2:3-4Isa 21:1Jdg 5:22Jer 47:3Jer 5:16Mic 4:13
and all their bows bent.
Their horses’ hoofs will be like flint,
and their wheels like a whirlwind.
Their roaring will be like a lioness. Isa 42:22Isa 49:24-25Mic 5:8Zec 11:3Amo 3:8Gen 49:9Hos 11:10Isa 10:6
They will roar like young lions.
Yes, they shall roar,
and seize their prey and carry it off,
and there will be no one to deliver.
They will roar against them in that day like the roaring of the sea. Isa 8:22Jol 2:10Jer 4:23-28Rev 16:10-11Ezk 32:7-8Isa 13:10Jer 6:23Luk 21:25-26
If one looks to the land, behold, darkness and distress.
The light is darkened in its clouds.