1Now will I sing to my wellbeloved a song of my beloved touching his vineyard. My wellbeloved hath a vineyard in a very fruitful hill:[ † ]Psalms 80:8Jeremiah 2:21Matthew 21:33Mark 12:1Luke 20:9 2and he fenced it, and gathered out the stones thereof, 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.[ † ]Deuteronomy 32:6
3And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem, and men of Judah, judge, I pray you, betwixt me and my vineyard.[ † ]Romans 3:4 4What could have been done more to my vineyard, that I have not done in it? wherefore, when I looked that it should bring forth grapes, brought it forth wild grapes?[ † ]2 Chronicles 36:15-16Jeremiah 2:5Jeremiah 7:25-26Micah 6:3Matthew 23:37 5And now go to; 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:[ † ]2 Chronicles 36:19Psalms 80:12Psalms 89:40-41 6and I will lay it waste: 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.[ † ]2 Chronicles 36:19-21Isaiah 7:19-25Jeremiah 25:11 7For the vineyard of the Lord of hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasant plant: and he looked for judgment, but behold oppression; for righteousness, but behold a cry.
8Woe 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![ † ]Jeremiah 22:13-17Micah 2:2Habakkuk 2:9-12 9In mine ears said the Lord of hosts, Of a truth many houses shall be desolate, even great and fair, without inhabitant.[ † ]Isaiah 22:14 10Yea, ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and the seed of an homer shall yield an ephah.[ † ]Ezekiel 45:11
11Woe unto them that rise up early in the morning, that they may follow strong drink; that continue until night, till wine inflame them![ † ]Proverbs 23:29-30Ecclesiastes 10:16-17Isaiah 5:22 12And 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.[ † ]Amos 6:5Job 34:27Psalms 28:5 13Therefore my people are gone into captivity, because they have no knowledge: and their honourable men are famished, and their multitude dried up with thirst.[ † ]2 Kings 24:14-16Isaiah 1:3Isaiah 27:11Hosea 4:6 14Therefore 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. 15And the mean man shall be brought down, and the mighty man shall be humbled, and the eyes of the lofty shall be humbled:[ † ]Isaiah 2:9-11 16but the Lord of hosts shall be exalted in judgment, and God that is holy shall be sanctified in righteousness.[ † ]Isaiah 2:11 17Then shall the lambs feed after their manner, and the waste places of the fat ones shall strangers eat.[ † ]Isaiah 10:16
18Woe unto them that draw iniquity with cords of vanity, and sin as it were with a cart rope: 19that 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![ † ]Jeremiah 17:15Amos 5:18
20Woe 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!
21Woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight![ † ]Proverbs 3:7Romans 1:22Romans 12:161 Corinthians 3:18-20 22Woe unto them that are mighty to drink wine, and men of strength to mingle strong drink: 23which justify the wicked for reward, and take away the righteousness of the righteous from him![ † ]Exodus 23:8Proverbs 17:15Isaiah 1:23Micah 3:11Micah 7:3 24Therefore 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.[ † ]Exodus 15:7Job 18:16
25Therefore 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 carcases were torn in the midst of the streets. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.[ † ]2 Kings 22:13-17Isaiah 66:15Psalms 18:7Isaiah 64:3Jeremiah 4:24Nahum 1:5Isaiah 9:12-17Jeremiah 4:8Daniel 9:16 26And 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:[ † ]Isaiah 11:10-12Isaiah 7:18Zechariah 10:8Malachi 1:11Joel 2:7 27none 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:[ † ]Daniel 5:6 28whose arrows are sharp, and all their bows bent, their horses' hoofs shall be counted like flint, and their wheels like a whirlwind:[ † ]Jeremiah 5:16 29their 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 . 30And 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.[ † ]Isaiah 8:22Jeremiah 4:23-28Joel 2:10Luke 21:25-26