All your people will be righteous; they will possess the land for ever; they are the branch I planted, the work of my hands, so that I may be glorified.
He began to speak to them in parables: ‘A man planted a vineyard, put a fence round it, dug out a pit for a winepress, and built a watchtower. Then he leased it to tenant farmers and went away.
‘Listen to another parable: There was a landowner, who planted a vineyard, put a fence round it, dug a winepress in it, and built a watchtower. He leased it to tenant farmers and went away.
Israel is a lush vine; it yields fruit for itself. The more his fruit increased, the more he increased the altars. The better his land produced, the better they made the sacred pillars.
Let’s go early to the vineyards; let’s see if the vine has budded, if the blossom has opened, if the pomegranates are in bloom. There I will give you my caresses.
to provide for those who mourn in Zion; to give them a crown of beauty instead of ashes, festive oil instead of mourning, and splendid clothes instead of despair. And they will be called righteous trees, planted by the Lord to glorify him.
Now if some of the branches were broken off, and you, though a wild olive branch, were grafted in among them and have come to share in the rich root of the cultivated olive tree,