Jeremiah 12:10
The keepers of sheep have been the destruction of my vine-garden, crushing my heritage under their feet; they have made my fair heritage an unplanted waste;
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Jeremiah 12:10
The keepers of sheep have been the destruction of my vine-garden, crushing my heritage under their feet; they have made my fair heritage an unplanted waste;
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Jeremiah 12:7
I have given up my house, I have let my heritage go; I have given the loved one of my soul into the hands of her haters.
Jeremiah 12:8
My heritage has become like a lion in the woodland to me; her voice has been loud against me; so I have hate for her.
Jeremiah 12:9
My heritage is like a brightly coloured bird to me; the cruel birds are attacking her on every side: go, get together all the beasts of the field, make them come for destruction.
Jeremiah 12:10
The keepers of sheep have been the destruction of my vine-garden, crushing my heritage under their feet; they have made my fair heritage an unplanted waste;
Jeremiah 12:11
They have made it waste; it is weeping to me, being wasted; all the land is made waste, because no man takes it to heart.
Jeremiah 12:12
Those who make waste have come on all the open hilltops in the waste land; for the sword of the Lord sends destruction from one end of the land to the other end of the land: no flesh has peace.
Jeremiah 12:13
Though good grain was planted, they have got in thorns: they have given themselves pain without profit: they will be shamed on account of their produce, because of the burning wrath of the Lord.
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Isaiah 5:1
Let me make a song about my loved one, a song of love for his vine-garden. My loved one had a vine-garden on a fertile hill:
Isaiah 5:2
And after working the earth of it with a spade, he took away its stones, and put in it a very special vine; and he put up a watchtower in the middle of it, hollowing out in the rock a place for the grape-crushing; and he was hoping that it would give the best grapes, but it gave common grapes.
Isaiah 5:3
And now, you people of Jerusalem and you men of Judah, be the judges between me and my vine-garden.
Jeremiah 2:21
But when you were planted by me, you were a noble vine, in every way a true seed: how then have you been changed into the branching plant of a strange vine?
Isaiah 5:7
For the vine-garden of the Lord of armies is the people of Israel, and the men of Judah are the plant of his delight: and he was looking for upright judging, and there was blood; for righteousness, and there was a cry for help.
Psalms 80:8
You took a vine out of Egypt: driving out the nations, and planting it in their land.
Psalms 80:9
You made ready a place for it, so that it might take deep root, and it sent out its branches over all the land.
Psalms 80:10
The mountains were covered with its shade, and the great trees with its branches.
Psalms 80:11
It sent out its arms to the Sea, and its branches to the River.
Hosea 10:1
Israel is a branching vine, full of fruit; as his fruit is increased, so the number of his altars is increased; as the land is fair, so they have made fair pillars.
Isaiah 5:5
And now, this is what I will do to my vine-garden: I will take away the circle of thorns round it, and it will be burned up; its wall will be broken down and the beasts of the field will go through it;
Psalms 80:13
It is uprooted by the pigs from the woods, the beasts of the field get their food from it.
Psalms 80:15
Even to the tree which was planted by your right hand, and to the branch which you made strong for yourself.
Isaiah 3:14
The Lord comes to be the judge of their responsible men and of their rulers: it is you who have made waste the vine-garden, and in your houses is the property of the poor which you have taken by force.
Ezekiel 15:6
For this cause the Lord has said: Like the vine-tree among the trees of the woods which I have given to the fire for burning, so will I give the people of Jerusalem.
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Jeremiah 6:3
Keepers of sheep with their flocks will come to her; they will put up their tents round her; everyone will get food in his place.
Jeremiah 10:21
For the keepers of the sheep have become like beasts, not looking to the Lord for directions: so they have not done wisely and all their flocks have been put to flight.
Jeremiah 10:22
News is going about, see, it is coming, a great shaking is coming from the north country, so that the towns of Judah may be made waste and become the living-place of jackals.
Jeremiah 23:1
A curse is on the keepers who are causing the destruction and loss of the sheep of my field, says the Lord.
Jeremiah 23:2
So this is what the Lord, the God of Israel, has said against the keepers who have the care of my people: You have let my flock be broken up, driving them away and not caring for them; see, I will send on you the punishment for the evil of your doings, says the Lord.
Jeremiah 2:8
The priests did not say, Where is the Lord? and those who were expert in the law had no knowledge of me: and the rulers did evil against me, and the prophets became prophets of the Baal, going after things without value.
Jeremiah 3:15
And I will give you keepers, pleasing to my heart, who will give you your food with knowledge and wisdom.
Jeremiah 3:19
But I said, How am I to put you among the children, and give you a desired land, a heritage of glory among the armies of the nations? and I said, You are to say to me, My father; and not be turned away from me.
Ezekiel 34:2
Son of man, be a prophet against the keepers of the flock of Israel, and say to them, O keepers of the sheep! this is the word of the Lord: A curse is on the keepers of the flock of Israel who take the food for themselves! is it not right for the keepers to give the food to the sheep?
Isaiah 56:9
All you beasts of the field, come together for your meat, even all you beasts of the wood.
Jeremiah 25:34
Give cries of grief, you keepers of sheep; give cries for help, rolling yourselves in the dust, you chiefs of the flock: for the days of your destruction have fully come, and I will send you in all directions, and your fall will be like that of the males of the flock.
Ezekiel 34:5
And they were wandering in every direction because there was no keeper: and they became food for all the beasts of the field.
Ezekiel 34:8
By my life, says the Lord, truly, because my sheep have been taken away, and my sheep became food for all the beasts of the field, because there was no keeper, and my keepers did not go in search of the sheep, but the keepers took food for themselves and gave my sheep no food;
John 10:2
He who goes in by the door is the keeper of the sheep.
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Isaiah 27:2
In that day it will be said, A vine-garden of delight, make a song about it.
Isaiah 27:3
I, the Lord, am watching it; I will give it water at all times: I will keep it night and day, for fear that any damage comes to it.
Isaiah 27:4
My passion is over: if the thorns were fighting against me, I would make an attack on them, and they would be burned up together.
Isaiah 27:5
Or let him put himself under my power, and make peace with me.
Isaiah 27:6
In days to come Jacob will take root: Israel will put out buds and flowers; and the face of the world will be full of fruit.
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Isaiah 63:18
Why have evil men gone over your holy place, so that it has been crushed under the feet of our haters?
Isaiah 64:10
Your holy towns have become a waste, Zion has become a waste, Jerusalem is a mass of broken walls.
Ezekiel 20:35
And I will take you into the waste land of the peoples, and there I will take up the cause with you face to face.
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Ezekiel 19:10
Your mother was in comparison like a vine, planted by the waters: she was fertile and full of branches because of the great waters.
Ezekiel 19:11
And she had a strong rod for a rod of authority for the rulers, and it became tall among the clouds and it was seen lifted up among the number of its branches.
Ezekiel 19:12
But she was uprooted in burning wrath, and made low on the earth; the east wind came, drying her up, and her branches were broken off; her strong rod became dry, the fire made a meal of it.
Ezekiel 19:13
And now she is planted in the waste land, in a dry and unwatered country.
Ezekiel 19:14
And fire has gone out from her rod, causing the destruction of her branches, so that there is no strong rod in her to be the ruler's rod of authority. This is a song of grief, and it was for a song of grief.
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Matthew 20:1
For the kingdom of heaven is like the master of a house, who went out early in the morning to get workers into his vine-garden.
Matthew 21:33
Give ear to another story. A master of a house made a vine garden, and put a wall round it, and made a place for crushing out the wine, and made a tower, and let it out to field-workers, and went into another country.
Ezekiel 15:7
And my face will be turned against them; and though they have come out of the fire they will be burned up by it; and it will be clear to you that I am the Lord when my face is turned against them.
Ezekiel 15:8
And I will make the land a waste because they have done evil, says the Lord.
Matthew 21:28
But how does it seem to you? A man had two sons; and he came to the first, and said, Son, go and do work today in the vine-garden.
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