The Parable of the Vineyard |
1 | Now will I sing to my well-beloved
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a song of my beloved touching his vineyard. Mt. 21.33 · Mk. 12.1 · Lk. 20.9 |
My well-beloved hath a vineyard |
in a very fruitful hill: |
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2 | and he fenced it, and gathered out the stones thereof,
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and planted it with the choicest vine, |
and built a tower in the midst of it, |
and also made a winepress therein: |
and he looked that it should bring forth grapes, |
and it brought forth wild grapes. |
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3 | And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem, and men of Judah,
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judge, I pray you, betwixt me and my vineyard. |
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4 | What could have been done more to my vineyard,
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that I have not done in it? |
Wherefore, when I looked that it should bring forth grapes, |
brought it forth wild grapes? |
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5 | And now go to;
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I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard: |
I will take away the hedge thereof, |
and it shall be eaten up; |
and break down the wall thereof, |
and it shall be trodden down: |
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6 | and I will lay it waste:
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it shall not be pruned, nor digged; |
but there shall come up briers and thorns: |
I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it. |
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7 | For the vineyard of the LORD of hosts is the house of Israel,
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and the men of Judah his pleasant plant: |
and he looked for judgment, but behold oppression; |
for righteousness, but behold a cry. |
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Woes Pronounced on the Wicked |
8 | ¶ Woe unto them that join house to house, that lay field to field, till there be no place, that they may be placed alone in the midst of the earth! |
9 | In mine ears said the LORD of hosts, Of a truth many houses shall be desolate, even great and fair, without inhabitant. |
10 | Yea, ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and the seed of a homer shall yield an ephah. |
11 | ¶ Woe unto them that rise up early in the morning, that they may follow strong drink; that continue until night, till wine inflame them! |
12 | And the harp and the viol, the tabret and pipe, and wine, are in their feasts: but they regard not the work of the LORD, neither consider the operation of his hands. |
13 | ¶ Therefore my people are gone into captivity, because they have no knowledge: and their honorable men are famished, and their multitude dried up with thirst. |
14 | Therefore hell hath enlarged herself, and opened her mouth without measure: and their glory, and their multitude, and their pomp, and he that rejoiceth, shall descend into it. |
15 | And the mean man shall be brought down, and the mighty man shall be humbled, and the eyes of the lofty shall be humbled: |
16 | but the LORD of hosts shall be exalted in judgment, and God that is holy shall be sanctified in righteousness. |
17 | Then shall the lambs feed after their manner, and the waste places of the fat ones shall strangers eat. |
18 | ¶ Woe unto them that draw iniquity with cords of vanity, and sin as it were with a cart rope: |
19 | that say, Let him make speed, and hasten his work, that we may see it: and let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel draw nigh and come, that we may know it! |
20 | Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter! |
21 | Woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight! |
22 | Woe unto them that are mighty to drink wine, and men of strength to mingle strong drink: |
23 | which justify the wicked for reward, and take away the righteousness of the righteous from him! |
24 | ¶ Therefore as the fire devoureth the stubble, and the flame consumeth the chaff, so their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust: because they have cast away the law of the LORD of hosts, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel. |
25 | Therefore is the anger of the LORD kindled against his people, and he hath stretched forth his hand against them, and hath smitten them: and the hills did tremble, and their carcasses weretorn in the midst of the streets. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand isstretched out still. |
26 | ¶ And he will lift up an ensign to the nations from far, and will hiss unto them from the end of the earth: and, behold, they shall come with speed swiftly: |
27 | none shall be weary nor stumble among them; none shall slumber nor sleep; neither shall the girdle of their loins be loosed, nor the latchet of their shoes be broken: |
28 | whose arrows are sharp, and all their bows bent, their horses' hoofs shall be counted like flint, and their wheels like a whirlwind: |
29 | their roaring shall be like a lion, they shall roar like young lions; yea, they shall roar, and lay hold of the prey, and shall carry it away safe, and none shall deliver it. |
30 | And in that day they shall roar against them like the roaring of the sea: and if one look unto the land, behold darkness and sorrow; and the light is darkened in the heavens thereof. |
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