Isaiah 5:2

Modern English Version

And He fenced it, and removed its stones, and planted it with the choicest vine. And He built a tower in the midst of it, and also made a winepress in it; and He expected it to bring forth good grapes, but it brought forth wild grapes.

Cross References

2 Samuel 7:10

Moreover, I will appoint a place for My people Israel. I will plant them, and they will dwell in that very place. They will be restless no longer, and the unjust will no longer oppress them, as in former times,

Nehemiah 13:15

In those days I saw in Judah some treading winepresses on the Sabbath or hauling loads of grain or loading donkeys with wine, grapes, figs, and all manner of burdens in order to bring them to Jerusalem on the Sabbath day. So, during the day while they were selling the food goods, I warned them.

Psalm 80:8

You have brought a vine out of Egypt; You have cast out the nations and planted it.

Psalm 80:9

You cleared the ground for it; it took deep root and filled the land.

Exodus 33:16

For how will it be known that I have found favor in Your sight, I and Your people? Is it not by Your going with us, so that we will be distinguished, I and Your people, from all the people who are on the face of the earth?”

Isaiah 1:8

The daughter of Zion is left like a shelter in a vineyard, like a hut in a field of melons, like a besieged city.

Isaiah 5:7

For the vineyard of the Lord of Hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah His pleasant plant. Thus He looked for justice, but behold, oppression; for righteousness, but behold, an outcry!

Jeremiah 11:17

For the Lord of Hosts, who planted you, has pronounced disaster against you, because of the evil of the house of Israel and of the house of Judah, which they have done against themselves to provoke Me to anger in offering incense to Baal.

Jeremiah 2:21

Yet I had planted you a noble vine, a wholly faithful seed. How then have you turned into the degenerate plant of a strange vine to Me?

Hosea 10:1

Israel is a fertile vine that brings forth its fruit. As his fruit multiplied, so his altars increased; as his land prospered, so he improved his pillars.

Micah 4:8

As for you, watchtower of the flock, citadel of the daughter of Zion, to you it will come, the former dominion will come, kingship for the daughter of Jerusalem.

Numbers 23:9

For from the top of the rocks I see him, and from the hills I behold him; there, the people will dwell alone and will not be counted among the nations.

Matthew 21:19

When He saw a fig tree by the road, He went to it but found nothing on it except leaves. He said to it, “Let no fruit ever grow on you again.” Immediately the fig tree withered away.

Matthew 21:33

“Listen to another parable: There was a certain landowner who planted a vineyard and built a wall around it. He dug a winepress in it and built a tower. Then he rented it to vinedressers and went into a distant country.

Matthew 21:34

When the season of the fruit drew near, he sent his servants to the vinedressers to receive his fruit.

Mark 11:13

Seeing from afar a fig tree with leaves, He went to see if perhaps He might find anything on it. When He came to it, He found nothing except leaves, for it was not the season for figs.

Mark 12:1

He began to speak to them in parables. “A man planted a vineyard, and set a hedge around it, and dug a pit for the winepress, and built a tower, and rented it to vinedressers, and went to a far country.

Mark 12:2

At harvest time he sent a servant to the vinedressers to receive from them some of the fruit of the vineyard.

Romans 9:4

who are Israelites, to whom belong the adoption, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the service of God, and the promises,

1 Corinthians 9:7

Who goes to war at any time at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard, but does not eat of its fruit? Or who feeds a flock, but does not drink of the flock’s milk?

Deuteronomy 32:6

Is this how you repay the Lord, you foolish and unwise people? Is He not your father, who has bought you? Has He not made you, and established you?

Judges 16:4

After this Samson loved a woman in the Valley of Sorek, whose name was Delilah.