Isaiah 5:1

The Passion Translation

Let me sing a song for the one I love, called “My Lover and His Vineyard”: My beloved planted a vineyard on a very fertile hill.

Cross References

Psalm 101:1

Lord, I will sing about your faithful love for me. My song of praise will have your justice as its theme.

Psalm 45:1

My heart is on fire, boiling over with passion. Bubbling up within me are these beautiful lyrics as a lovely poem to be sung for the King. Like a river bursting its banks, I’m overflowing with words, spilling out into this sacred story.

Psalm 60:5

Come to your beloved ones and gently draw us out. For Lord, you save those whom you love. Come with your might and strength!

Psalm 80:8

Remember how you transplanted us here like a tender vine from Egypt. You cleared the land for your vineyard, evicting the nations from your land and planting us here. The roots of your vineyard went deep into the soil and filled the land with fruit.

Song of Solomon 2:16

I know my lover is mine and I have everything in you, for we delight ourselves in each other.

Song of Solomon 5:16

Most sweet are his kisses, even his whispers of love. He is delightful in every way and perfect from every viewpoint. If you ask me why I love him so, O brides-to-be, it’s because there is none like him to me. Everything about him fills me with holy desire! And now he is my beloved—my friend forever.

Song of Solomon 5:2

After this I let my devotion slumber, but my heart for him stayed awake. I had a dream. I dreamed of my beloved— he was coming to me in the darkness of night. The melody of the man I love awakened me. I heard his knock at my heart’s door as he pleaded with me: Arise, my love. Open your heart, my darling, deeper still to me. Will you receive me this dark night? There is no one else but you, my friend, my equal. I need you this night to arise and come be with me. You are my pure, loyal dove, a perfect partner for me. My flawless one, will you arise? For my heaviness and tears are more than I can bear. I have spent myself for you throughout the dark night.

Song of Solomon 6:3

I am fully devoted to my beloved, and my beloved is fully devoted to me.

Jeremiah 12:10

Many rulers have destroyed my vineyard. They have trampled my property and have made my magnificent fields into a desolate desert.

Jeremiah 2:21

I planted you like a special vine from the absolute best seed, but look at what you’ve become now! You’re like a twisted, rotten vine.

Ezekiel 15:2

“Son of man, how is the wood of the grapevine different than that of other tree branches of the forest?

Ezekiel 19:10

“ ‘Your mother was like a grapevine planted beside a stream, with luscious fruit and full of branches, because the water flowed so abundantly.

Matthew 21:33

“Pay close attention to this parable,” Jesus said. “There once was an honorable man who planted a vineyard. He built a fence around it, dug out a pit for pressing the grapes, and erected a watchtower. Afterward he leased the land to tenant farmers and then went a distance away.

Mark 12:1

Then Jesus began to speak to them in parables: “There once was a man who planted a vineyard and put a secure fence around it. He dug a pit for its winepress and erected a watch tower. Then he leased it to tenant-farmers and traveled abroad.

Luke 20:9

Jesus taught the people using this story: “A man once planted a vineyard, then leased it out to tenants. Then he left to go abroad and was away for a long time.

John 15:1

“I am a true sprouting vine, and the farmer who tends the vine is my Father.