Bible verses about "vineyards" | BBE

² And after working the earth of it with a spade, he took away its stones, and put in it a very special vine; and he put up a watchtower in the middle of it, hollowing out in the rock a place for the grape-crushing; and he was hoping that it would give the best grapes, but it gave common grapes.

⁴ I undertook great works, building myself houses and planting vine-gardens.

¹ Let me make a song about my loved one, a song of love for his vine-garden. My loved one had a vine-garden on a fertile hill: ² And after working the earth of it with a spade, he took away its stones, and put in it a very special vine; and he put up a watchtower in the middle of it, hollowing out in the rock a place for the grape-crushing; and he was hoping that it would give the best grapes, but it gave common grapes. ³ And now, you people of Jerusalem and you men of Judah, be the judges between me and my vine-garden. ⁴ Is there anything which might have been done for my vine-garden which I have not done? why then, when I was hoping for the best grapes did it give me common grapes? ⁵ And now, this is what I will do to my vine-garden: I will take away the circle of thorns round it, and it will be burned up; its wall will be broken down and the beasts of the field will go through it; ⁶ And I will make it waste; its branches will not be touched with the knife, or the earth worked with the spade; but blackberries and thorns will come up in it: and I will give orders to the clouds not to send rain on it. ⁷ For the vine-garden of the Lord of armies is the people of Israel, and the men of Judah are the plant of his delight: and he was looking for upright judging, and there was blood; for righteousness, and there was a cry for help.

² In that day it will be said, A vine-garden of delight, make a song about it.

³³ Give ear to another story. A master of a house made a vine garden, and put a wall round it, and made a place for crushing out the wine, and made a tower, and let it out to field-workers, and went into another country. ³⁴ And when the time for the fruit came near, he sent his servants to the workmen, to get the fruit. ³⁵ And the workmen made an attack on his servants, giving blows to one, putting another to death, and stoning another. ³⁶ Again, he sent other servants more in number than the first: and they did the same to them. ³⁷ But after that he sent his son to them, saying, They will have respect for my son. ³⁸ But when the workmen saw the son, they said among themselves, This is he who will one day be the owner of the property; come, let us put him to death and take his heritage. ³⁹ And they took him and, driving him out of the vine-garden, put him to death. ⁴⁰ When, then, the lord of the vine-garden comes, what will he do to those workmen? ⁴¹ They say to him, He will put those cruel men to a cruel death, and will let out the vine-garden to other workmen, who will give him the fruit when it is ready.

⁶ And he made up this story for them: A certain man had a fig-tree in his garden, and he came to get fruit from it, and there was no fruit. ⁷ And he said to the gardener, See, for three years I have been looking for fruit from this tree, and I have not had any: let it be cut down; why is it taking up space? ⁸ And he said, Lord, let it be for this year, and I will have the earth turned up round it, and put animal waste on it, to make it fertile: ⁹ And if, after that, it has fruit, it is well; if not, let it be cut down.

¹ For the kingdom of heaven is like the master of a house, who went out early in the morning to get workers into his vine-garden. ² And when he had made an agreement with the workmen for a penny a day, he sent them into his vine-garden. ³ And he went out about the third hour, and saw others in the market-place doing nothing; ⁴ And he said to them, Go into the vine-garden with the others, and whatever is right I will give you. And they went to work. ⁵ Again he went out about the sixth and the ninth hour, and did the same. ⁶ And about the eleventh hour he went out and saw others doing nothing; and he says to them, Why are you here all the day doing nothing? ⁷ They say to him, Because no man has given us work. He says to them, Go in with the rest, into the vine-garden. ⁸ And when evening came, the lord of the vine-garden said to his manager, Let the workers come, and give them their payment, from the last to the first. ⁹ And when those men came who had gone to work at the eleventh hour, they were given every man a penny. ¹⁰ Then those who came first had the idea that they would get more; and they, like the rest, were given a penny. ¹¹ And when they got it, they made a protest against the master of the house, ¹² Saying, These last have done only one hour's work, and you have made them equal to us, who have undergone the hard work of the day and the burning heat. ¹³ But he in answer said to one of them, Friend, I do you no wrong: did you not make an agreement with me for a penny? ¹⁴ Take what is yours, and go away; it is my pleasure to give to this last, even as to you. ¹⁵ Have I not the right to do as seems good to me in my house? or is your eye evil, because I am good? ¹⁶ So the last will be first, and the first last.