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Isaiah 5:4

New American Bible - revised edition

What more could be done for my vineyard that I did not do? Why, when I waited for the crop of grapes, did it yield rotten grapes?

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The knobs and branches so sprang from it that the whole formed but a single piece of pure beaten gold.

Why would you yet be struck, that you continue to rebel? The whole head is sick, the whole heart faint.

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

thus says the Lord: What fault did your ancestors find in me that they withdrew from me, Went after emptiness, and became empty themselves?

One basket contained excellent figs, those that ripen early. But the other basket contained very bad figs, so bad they could not be eaten.

From the day that your ancestors left the land of Egypt even to this day, I kept on sending all my servants the prophets to you.

Yet they have not listened to me nor have they paid attention; they have stiffened their necks and done worse than their ancestors.

Even in defiling yourself with depravity I would still have cleansed you, but you would not have your impurity cleansed. You will not be cleansed now until I wreak my fury on you.

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.

“Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those sent to you, how many times I yearned to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her young under her wings, but you were unwilling!




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