Isaiah 5:7
For the vineyard of Yahweh of Armies is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasant plant. He looked for justice, but behold, oppression, for righteousness, but behold, a cry of distress.
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Isaiah 5:7
For the vineyard of Yahweh of Armies is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasant plant. He looked for justice, but behold, oppression, for righteousness, but behold, a cry of distress.
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Isaiah 5:5
Now I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard. I will take away its hedge, and it will be eaten up. I will break down its wall, and it will be trampled down.
Isaiah 5:6
I will lay it a wasteland. 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.”
Jeremiah 12:10
Many shepherds have destroyed my vineyard. They have trodden my portion under foot. They have made my pleasant portion a desolate wilderness.
Matthew 21:33
“Hear another parable. There was a man who was a master of a household who planted a vineyard, set a hedge about it, dug a wine press in it, built a tower, leased it out to farmers, and went into another country.
Isaiah 27:2
In that day, sing to her, “A pleasant vineyard!
Psalms 80:10
The mountains were covered with its shadow. Its boughs were like God’s cedars.
Psalms 80:11
It sent out its branches to the sea, its shoots to the River.
Psalms 80:12
Why have you broken down its walls, so that all those who pass by the way pluck it?
Psalms 80:13
The boar out of the wood ravages it. The wild animals of the field feed on it.
Matthew 20:1
“For the Kingdom of Heaven is like a man who was the master of a household, who went out early in the morning to hire laborers for his vineyard.
Matthew 21:28
But what do you think? A man had two sons, and he came to the first, and said, ‘Son, go work today in my vineyard.’
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Isaiah 5:1
Let me sing for my well beloved a song of my beloved about his vineyard. My beloved had a vineyard on a very fruitful hill.
Isaiah 5:2
He dug it up, 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.
Isaiah 5:3
“Now, inhabitants of Jerusalem and men of Judah, please judge between me and my vineyard.
Isaiah 5:4
What could have been done more to my vineyard, that I have not done in it? Why, when I looked for it to yield grapes, did it yield wild grapes?
Jeremiah 2:21
Yet I had planted you a noble vine, a pure and faithful seed. How then have you turned into the degenerate branches of a foreign vine to me?
Psalms 80:8
You brought a vine out of Egypt. You drove out the nations, and planted it.
Psalms 80:9
You cleared the ground for it. It took deep root, and filled the land.
Psalms 80:14
Turn again, we beg you, God of Armies. Look down from heaven, and see, and visit this vine,
Psalms 80:15
the stock which your right hand planted, the branch that you made strong for yourself.
Psalms 80:16
It’s burned with fire. It’s cut down. They perish at your rebuke.
Hosea 10:1
Israel is a luxuriant vine that produces his fruit. According to the abundance of his fruit he has multiplied his altars. As their land has prospered, they have adorned their sacred stones.
Deuteronomy 32:32
For their vine is of the vine of Sodom, of the fields of Gomorrah. Their grapes are poison grapes. Their clusters are bitter.
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James 5:4
Behold, the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you have kept back by fraud, cry out; and the cries of those who reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of Armies.
Job 34:28
so that they caused the cry of the poor to come to him. He heard the cry of the afflicted.
Job 31:38
If my land cries out against me, and its furrows weep together;
Job 31:39
if I have eaten its fruits without money, or have caused its owners to lose their life,
Job 24:12
From out of the populous city, men groan. The soul of the wounded cries out, yet God doesn’t regard the folly.
Exodus 1:14
and they made their lives bitter with hard service in mortar and in brick, and in all kinds of service in the field, all their service, in which they ruthlessly made them serve.
Exodus 5:8
You shall require from them the number of the bricks which they made before. You shall not diminish anything of it, for they are idle. Therefore they cry, saying, ‘Let’s go and sacrifice to our God.’
2 Kings 4:1
Now a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets cried out to Elisha, saying, “Your servant my husband is dead. You know that your servant feared Yahweh. Now the creditor has come to take for himself my two children to be slaves.”
Job 35:9
“By reason of the multitude of oppressions they cry out. They cry for help by reason of the arm of the mighty.
Psalms 12:5
“Because of the oppression of the weak and because of the groaning of the needy, I will now arise,” says Yahweh; “I will set him in safety from those who malign him.”
Ecclesiastes 4:1
Then I returned and saw all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold, the tears of those who were oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was power; but they had no comforter.
Luke 18:7
Won’t God avenge his chosen ones who are crying out to him day and night, and yet he exercises patience with them?
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Isaiah 5:8
Woe to those who join house to house, who lay field to field, until there is no room, and you are made to dwell alone in the middle of the land!
Isaiah 5:9
In my ears, Yahweh of Armies says: “Surely many houses will be desolate, even great and beautiful, unoccupied.
Micah 2:2
They covet fields and seize them, and houses, then take them away. They oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage.
Job 24:2
There are people who remove the landmarks. They violently take away flocks, and feed them.
Isaiah 59:6
Their webs won’t become garments. They won’t cover themselves with their works. Their works are works of iniquity, and acts of violence are in their hands.
Amos 3:10
“Indeed they don’t know to do right,” says Yahweh, “Who hoard plunder and loot in their palaces.”
Amos 6:3
Alas for you who put far away the evil day, and cause the seat of violence to come near,
Micah 6:12
Her rich men are full of violence, her inhabitants speak lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their speech.
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Isaiah 1:21
How the faithful city has become a prostitute! She was full of justice. Righteousness lodged in her, but now there are murderers.
Ecclesiastes 3:16
Moreover I saw under the sun, in the place of justice, that wickedness was there; and in the place of righteousness, that wickedness was there.
Isaiah 3:14
Yahweh will enter into judgment with the elders of his people and their leaders: “It is you who have eaten up the vineyard. The plunder of the poor is in your houses.
Amos 5:11
Therefore, because you trample on the poor and take taxes from him of wheat, you have built houses of cut stone, but you will not dwell in them. You have planted pleasant vineyards, but you shall not drink their wine.
Isaiah 3:17
therefore the Lord brings sores on the crown of the head of the women of Zion, and Yahweh will make their scalps bald.”
Jeremiah 5:27
As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit. Therefore they have become great, and grew rich.
Ezekiel 22:6
“ ‘ “Behold, the princes of Israel, everyone according to his power, have been in you to shed blood.
Zephaniah 3:1
Woe to her who is rebellious and polluted, the oppressing city!
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Isaiah 1:23
Your princes are rebellious and companions of thieves. Everyone loves bribes and follows after rewards. They don’t defend the fatherless, neither does the cause of the widow come to them.
Ezekiel 22:7
In you have they treated father and mother with contempt. Among you they have oppressed the foreigner. In you they have wronged the fatherless and the widow.
Isaiah 3:15
What do you mean that you crush my people, and grind the face of the poor?” says the Lord, Yahweh of Armies.
Ezekiel 22:29
The people of the land have used oppression and exercised robbery. Yes, they have troubled the poor and needy, and have oppressed the foreigner wrongfully.
Micah 3:2
You who hate the good, and love the evil; who tear off their skin, and their flesh from off their bones;
Micah 3:3
who also eat the flesh of my people, and peel their skin from off them, and break their bones, and chop them in pieces, as for the pot, and as meat within the cauldron.
Malachi 3:5
I will come near to you to judgment. I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, against the adulterers, against the perjurers, and against those who oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and who deprive the foreigner of justice, and don’t fear me,” says Yahweh of Armies.
Amos 4:1
Listen to this word, you cows of Bashan, who are on the mountain of Samaria, who oppress the poor, who crush the needy, who tell their husbands, “Bring us drinks!”
James 2:6
But you have dishonored the poor man. Don’t the rich oppress you and personally drag you before the courts?
Psalms 82:2
“How long will you judge unjustly, and show partiality to the wicked?” Selah.
Isaiah 10:2
to deprive the needy of justice, and to rob the poor among my people of their rights, that widows may be their plunder, and that they may make the fatherless their prey!
Jeremiah 5:28
They have grown fat. They shine; yes, they excel in deeds of wickedness. They don’t plead the cause, the cause of the fatherless, that they may prosper; and they don’t defend the rights of the needy.
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Genesis 4:10
Yahweh said, “What have you done? The voice of your brother’s blood cries to me from the ground.
Exodus 3:7
Yahweh said, “I have surely seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt, and have heard their cry because of their taskmasters, for I know their sorrows.
Nehemiah 5:1
Then there arose a great cry of the people and of their wives against their brothers the Jews.
Genesis 18:20
Yahweh said, “Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous,
Deuteronomy 24:15
In his day you shall give him his wages, neither shall the sun go down on it, for he is poor and sets his heart on it, lest he cry against you to Yahweh, and it be sin to you.
Exodus 2:23
In the course of those many days, the king of Egypt died, and the children of Israel sighed because of the bondage, and they cried, and their cry came up to God because of the bondage.
Exodus 2:24
God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob.
Exodus 22:22
“You shall not take advantage of any widow or fatherless child.
Exodus 22:23
If you take advantage of them at all, and they cry at all to me, I will surely hear their cry;
Exodus 22:24
and my wrath will grow hot, and I will kill you with the sword; and your wives shall be widows, and your children fatherless.
Exodus 3:9
Now, behold, the cry of the children of Israel has come to me. Moreover I have seen the oppression with which the Egyptians oppress them.
Deuteronomy 15:9
Beware that there not be a wicked thought in your heart, saying, “The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand,” and your eye be evil against your poor brother and you give him nothing; and he cry to Yahweh against you, and it be sin to you.
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Amos 5:7
You who turn justice to wormwood, and cast down righteousness to the earth!
Deuteronomy 29:18
lest there should be among you man, woman, family, or tribe whose heart turns away today from Yahweh our God, to go to serve the gods of those nations; lest there should be among you a root that produces bitter poison;
Hosea 10:4
They make promises, swearing falsely in making covenants. Therefore judgment springs up like poisonous weeds in the furrows of the field.
Proverbs 1:3
to receive instruction in wise dealing, in righteousness, justice, and equity;
Amos 6:12
Do horses run on the rocky crags? Does one plow there with oxen? But you have turned justice into poison, and the fruit of righteousness into bitterness,
Hebrews 12:15
looking carefully lest there be any man who falls short of the grace of God, lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you and many be defiled by it,
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Ezekiel 15:2
“Son of man, what is the vine tree more than any tree, the vine branch which is among the trees of the forest?
Ezekiel 15:3
Will wood be taken of it to make anything? Will men take a pin of it to hang any vessel on it?
Ezekiel 15:4
Behold, it is cast into the fire for fuel; the fire has devoured both its ends, and the middle of it is burned. Is it profitable for any work?
Ezekiel 15:5
Behold, when it was whole, it was suitable for no work. How much less, when the fire has devoured it, and it has been burned, will it yet be suitable for any work?”
Ezekiel 15:6
Therefore the Lord Yahweh says: “As the vine wood among the trees of the forest, which I have given to the fire for fuel, so I will give the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
Ezekiel 15:7
I will set my face against them. They will go out from the fire, but the fire will still devour them. Then you will know that I am Yahweh, when I set my face against them.
John 15:1
“I am the true vine, and my Father is the farmer.
Isaiah 27:11
When its boughs are withered, they will be broken off. The women will come and set them on fire, for they are a people of no understanding. Therefore he who made them will not have compassion on them, and he who formed them will show them no favor.
Isaiah 53:2
For he grew up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of dry ground. He has no good looks or majesty. When we see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him.
Isaiah 60:21
Then your people will all be righteous. They will inherit the land forever, the branch of my planting, the work of my hands, that I may be glorified.
Matthew 15:13
But he answered, “Every plant which my heavenly Father didn’t plant will be uprooted.
John 15:5
I am the vine. You are the branches. He who remains in me and I in him bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.
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Luke 13:6
He spoke this parable. “A certain man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard, and he came seeking fruit on it and found none.
Luke 13:7
He said to the vine dresser, ‘Behold, these three years I have come looking for fruit on this fig tree, and found none. Cut it down! Why does it waste the soil?’
Luke 13:8
He answered, ‘Lord, leave it alone this year also, until I dig around it and fertilize it.
Luke 13:9
If it bears fruit, fine; but if not, after that, you can cut it down.’ ”
Mark 11:13
Seeing a fig tree afar off having leaves, he came to see if perhaps he might find anything on it. When he came to it, he found nothing but leaves, for it was not the season for figs.
Mark 11:14
Jesus told it, “May no one ever eat fruit from you again!” and his disciples heard it.
Micah 7:1
Misery is mine! Indeed, I am like one who gathers the summer fruits, as gleanings of the vineyard. There is no cluster of grapes to eat. My soul desires to eat the early fig.
Matthew 21:19
Seeing a fig tree by the road, he came to it and found nothing on it but leaves. He said to it, “Let there be no fruit from you forever!” Immediately the fig tree withered away.
Mark 11:21
Peter, remembering, said to him, “Rabbi, look! The fig tree which you cursed has withered away.”
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Matthew 21:42
Jesus said to them, “Did you never read in the Scriptures, ‘The stone which the builders rejected was made the head of the corner. This was from the Lord. It is marvelous in our eyes’?
Matthew 21:43
“Therefore I tell you, God’s Kingdom will be taken away from you and will be given to a nation producing its fruit.
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Psalms 144:12
Then our sons will be like well-nurtured plants, our daughters like pillars carved to adorn a palace.
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Isaiah 59:7
Their feet run to evil, and they hurry to shed innocent blood. Their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity. Desolation and destruction are in their paths.
Isaiah 59:8
They don’t know the way of peace; and there is no justice in their ways. They have made crooked paths for themselves; whoever goes in them doesn’t know peace.
Isaiah 59:13
transgressing and denying Yahweh, and turning away from following our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.
Isaiah 59:14
Justice is turned away backward, and righteousness stands far away; for truth has fallen in the street, and uprightness can’t enter.
Isaiah 59:15
Yes, truth is lacking; and he who departs from evil makes himself a prey. Yahweh saw it, and it displeased him that there was no justice.
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Matthew 3:10
Even now the ax lies at the root of the trees. Therefore every tree that doesn’t produce good fruit is cut down, and cast into the fire.
John 15:6
If a man doesn’t remain in me, he is thrown out as a branch and is withered; and they gather them, throw them into the fire, and they are burned.
Hebrews 6:8
but if it bears thorns and thistles, it is rejected and near being cursed, whose end is to be burned.
John 15:2
Every branch in me that doesn’t bear fruit, he takes away. Every branch that bears fruit, he prunes, that it may bear more fruit.
John 15:3
You are already pruned clean because of the word which I have spoken to you.
John 15:4
Remain in me, and I in you. As the branch can’t bear fruit by itself unless it remains in the vine, so neither can you, unless you remain in me.
Ezekiel 15:8
I will make the land desolate, because they have acted unfaithfully,” says the Lord Yahweh.
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Matthew 7:16
By their fruits you will know them. Do you gather grapes from thorns or figs from thistles?
Matthew 7:17
Even so, every good tree produces good fruit, but the corrupt tree produces evil fruit.
Matthew 7:18
A good tree can’t produce evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree produce good fruit.
Matthew 7:19
Every tree that doesn’t grow good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.
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Exodus 22:25
“If you lend money to any of my people with you who is poor, you shall not be to him as a creditor. You shall not charge him interest.
Exodus 22:26
If you take your neighbor’s garment as collateral, you shall restore it to him before the sun goes down,
Exodus 22:27
for that is his only covering, it is his garment for his skin. What would he sleep in? It will happen, when he cries to me, that I will hear, for I am gracious.
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Matthew 21:34
When the season for the fruit came near, he sent his servants to the farmers to receive his fruit.
Luke 20:10
At the proper season, he sent a servant to the farmers to collect his share of the fruit of the vineyard. But the farmers beat him and sent him away empty.
Luke 20:11
He sent yet another servant, and they also beat him and treated him shamefully, and sent him away empty.
Luke 20:12
He sent yet a third, and they also wounded him and threw him out.
Luke 20:13
The lord of the vineyard said, ‘What shall I do? I will send my beloved son. It may be that seeing him, they will respect him.’
Luke 20:14
“But when the farmers saw him, they reasoned among themselves, saying, ‘This is the heir. Come, let’s kill him, that the inheritance may be ours.’
Luke 20:15
Then they threw him out of the vineyard and killed him. What therefore will the lord of the vineyard do to them?
Luke 20:16
He will come and destroy these farmers, and will give the vineyard to others.” When they heard that, they said, “May that never be!”
Isaiah 1:4
Ah sinful nation, a people loaded with iniquity, offspring of evildoers, children who deal corruptly! They have forsaken Yahweh. They have despised the Holy One of Israel. They are estranged and backward.
Mark 12:2
When it was time, he sent a servant to the farmer to get from the farmer his share of the fruit of the vineyard.
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Job 30:7
They bray among the bushes. They are gathered together under the nettles.
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Psalms 128:3
Your wife will be as a fruitful vine in the innermost parts of your house, your children like olive shoots around your table.
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Song of Solomon 1:6
Don’t stare at me because I am dark, because the sun has scorched me. My mother’s sons were angry with me. They made me keeper of the vineyards. I haven’t kept my own vineyard.
Luke 16:12
If you have not been faithful in that which is another’s, who will give you that which is your own?
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Isaiah 14:2
The peoples will take them, and bring them to their place. The house of Israel will possess them in Yahweh’s land for servants and for handmaids. They will take as captives those whose captives they were; and they shall rule over their oppressors.
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Isaiah 46:3
“Listen to me, house of Jacob, and all the remnant of the house of Israel, that have been carried from their birth, that have been carried from the womb.
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Isaiah 63:7
I will tell of the loving kindnesses of Yahweh and the praises of Yahweh, according to all that Yahweh has given to us, and the great goodness toward the house of Israel, which he has given to them according to his mercies, and according to the multitude of his loving kindnesses.
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Matthew 25:24
“He also who had received the one talent came and said, ‘Lord, I knew you that you are a hard man, reaping where you didn’t sow, and gathering where you didn’t scatter.
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Matthew 25:25
I was afraid, and went away and hid your talent in the earth. Behold, you have what is yours.’
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