Isaiah 5:2

New American Bible - revised edition

He spaded it, cleared it of stones, and planted the choicest vines; Within it he built a watchtower, and hewed out a wine press. Then he waited for the crop of grapes, but it yielded rotten grapes.

Cross References

2 Samuel 7:10

I will assign a place for my people Israel and I will plant them in it to dwell there; they will never again be disturbed, nor shall the wicked ever again oppress them, as they did at the beginning,

Nehemiah 13:15

In those days I perceived that people in Judah were treading the wine presses on the sabbath; that they were bringing in sheaves of grain, loading them on their donkeys, together with wine, grapes, figs, and every other kind of load, and bringing them to Jerusalem on the sabbath day. I warned them to sell none of these provisions.

Psalm 80:8

O God of hosts, restore us; light up your face and we shall be saved.

Psalm 80:9

You brought a vine out of Egypt; you drove out nations and planted it.

Exodus 33:16

For how can it be known that I and your people have found favor with you, except by your going with us? Then we, your people and I, will be singled out from every other people on the surface of the earth.”

Isaiah 1:8

And daughter Zion is left like a hut in a vineyard, Like a shed in a melon patch, like a city blockaded.

Isaiah 5:7

The vineyard of the Lord of hosts is the house of Israel, the people of Judah, his cherished plant; He waited for judgment, but see, bloodshed! for justice, but hark, the outcry!

Jeremiah 11:17

The Lord of hosts who planted you has decreed disaster for you because of the evil done by the house of Israel and by the house of Judah, who provoked me by sacrificing to Baal. The Plot Against Jeremiah.

Jeremiah 2:21

But I had planted you as a choice vine, all pedigreed stock; How could you turn out so obnoxious to me, a spurious vine?

Hosea 10:1

Israel is a luxuriant vine whose fruit matches its growth. The more abundant his fruit, the more altars he built; The more productive his land, the more sacred pillars he set up.

Micah 4:8

And you, O tower of the flock, hill of daughter Zion! To you it shall come: the former dominion shall be restored, the reign of daughter Jerusalem.

Numbers 23:9

For from the top of the crags I see him, from the heights I behold him. Here is a people that lives apart and does not reckon itself among the nations.

Matthew 21:19

Seeing a fig tree by the road, he went over to it, but found nothing on it except leaves. And he said to it, “May no fruit ever come from you again.” And immediately the fig tree withered.

Matthew 21:33

“Hear another parable. There was a landowner who planted a vineyard, put a hedge around it, dug a wine press in it, and built a tower. Then he leased it to tenants and went on a journey.

Matthew 21:34

When vintage time drew near, he sent his servants to the tenants to obtain his produce.

Mark 11:13

Seeing from a distance a fig tree in leaf, he went over to see if he could find anything on it. When he reached it he found nothing but leaves; it was not the time for figs.

Mark 12:1

He began to speak to them in parables. “A man planted a vineyard, put a hedge around it, dug a wine press, and built a tower. Then he leased it to tenant farmers and left on a journey.

Mark 12:2

At the proper time he sent a servant to the tenants to obtain from them some of the produce of the vineyard.

Romans 9:4

They are Israelites; theirs the adoption, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the worship, and the promises;

1 Corinthians 9:7

Who ever serves as a soldier at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard without eating its produce? Or who shepherds a flock without using some of the milk from the flock?

Deuteronomy 32:6

Is this how you repay the Lord, so foolish and unwise a people? Is he not your father who begot you, the one who made and established you?

Judges 16:4

After that he fell in love with a woman in the Wadi Sorek whose name was Delilah.