Isaiah 5:2

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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.

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  • Jer 2:21 : 21 But when you were planted by me, you were a noble vine, in every way a true seed: how then have you been changed into the branching plant of a strange vine?
  • Mark 11:13 : 13 And seeing a fig-tree in the distance with leaves, he went to see if by chance it had anything on it: and when he came to it, he saw nothing but leaves, for it was not the time for the fruit.
  • Matt 21:19 : 19 And seeing a fig-tree by the wayside, he came to it, and saw nothing on it but leaves only; and he said to it, Let there be no fruit from you from this time forward for ever. And straight away the fig-tree became dry and dead.
  • Exod 33:16 : 16 For is not the fact of your going with us the sign that I and this people have grace in your eyes, so that we, that is, I and your people, are separate from all other people on the face of the earth?
  • Num 23:9 : 9 From the top of the rocks I see him, looking down on him from the hills: it is a people made separate, not to be numbered among the nations.
  • Deut 32:6 : 6 Is this your answer to the Lord, O foolish people and unwise? Is he not your father who has given you life? He has made you and given you your place.
  • Deut 32:8-9 : 8 When the Most High gave the nations their heritage, separating into groups the children of men, he had the limits of the peoples marked out, keeping in mind the number of the children of Israel. 9 For the Lord's wealth is his people; Jacob is the land of his heritage.
  • Deut 32:32-33 : 32 For their vine is the vine of Sodom, from the fields of Gomorrah: their grapes are the grapes of evil, and the berries are bitter: 33 Their wine is the poison of dragons, the cruel poison of snakes.
  • Judg 16:4 : 4 Now after this, he was in love with a woman in the valley of Sorek, named Delilah.
  • Neh 13:15 : 15 In those days, I saw in Judah some who were crushing grapes on the Sabbath, and getting in grain and putting it on asses; as well as wine and grapes and figs and all sorts of goods which they took into Jerusalem on the Sabbath day: and I gave witness against them on the day when they were marketing food.
  • Ps 44:1-3 : 1 <To the chief music-maker. Of the sons of Korah Maschil.> It has come to our ears, O God, our fathers have given us the story, of the works which you did in their days, in the old times, 2 Uprooting the nations with your hand, and planting our fathers in their place; cutting down the nations, but increasing the growth of your people. 3 For they did not make the land theirs by their swords, and it was not their arms which kept them safe; but your right hand, and your arm, and the light of your face, because you had pleasure in them.
  • Isa 1:2-4 : 2 Give ear, O heavens, and you, O earth, to the word which the Lord has said: I have taken care of my children till they became men, but their hearts have been turned away from me. 3 Even the ox has knowledge of its owner, and the ass of the place where its master puts its food: but Israel has no knowledge, my people give no thought to me. 4 O nation full of sin, a people weighted down with crime, a generation of evil-doers, false-hearted children: they have gone away from the Lord, they have no respect for the Holy One of Israel, their hearts are turned back from him.
  • Isa 1:8 : 8 And the daughter of Zion has become like a tent in a vine-garden, like a watchman's house in a field of fruit, like a town shut in by armies.
  • Isa 1:21-23 : 21 The upright town has become untrue; there was a time when her judges gave right decisions, when righteousness had a resting-place in her, but now she is full of those who take men's lives. 22 Your silver is no longer true metal, your wine is mixed with water. 23 Your chiefs have gone against the Lord, they have become friends of thieves; every one of them is looking for profit and going after rewards; they do not give right decisions for the child who has no father, and they do not let the cause of the widow come before them.
  • Isa 5:7 : 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.
  • Isa 63:2-3 : 2 Why is your clothing red, and why are your robes like those of one who is crushing the grapes? 3 I have been crushing the grapes by myself, and of the peoples there was no man with me: in my wrath and in my passion, they were crushed under my feet; and my robes are marked with their life-blood, and all my clothing is red.
  • Matt 21:34 : 34 And when the time for the fruit came near, he sent his servants to the workmen, to get the fruit.
  • Hos 10:1 : 1 Israel is a branching vine, full of fruit; as his fruit is increased, so the number of his altars is increased; as the land is fair, so they have made fair pillars.
  • Mic 4:8 : 8 And you, O tower of the flock, Ophel of the daughter of Zion, to you it will come, even the earlier authority, the kingdom of the daughter of Jerusalem.
  • Mark 12:2 : 2 And when the time came, he sent a servant to get from the workmen some of the fruit of the garden.
  • Luke 13:6-7 : 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?
  • Luke 20:10-18 : 10 And at the right time he sent a servant to the workers to get part of the fruit from the vines; but the workmen gave him blows and sent him away with nothing. 11 And he sent another servant, and they gave blows to him in the same way, and put shame on him, and sent him away with nothing. 12 And he sent a third, and they gave him wounds and put him out. 13 And the lord of the garden said, What am I to do? I will send my dearly loved son; they may give respect to him. 14 But when the workmen saw him, they said to one another, This is he who will one day be the owner of the property: let us put him to death and the heritage will be ours. 15 And driving him out of the garden they put him to death. Now what will the lord do to these workmen? 16 He will come and put them to destruction and give the garden to others. And when he said this, they said, May it not be so. 17 But he, looking on them, said, Is it not in the Writings, The stone which the builders put on one side, the same has become the chief stone of the building? 18 Everyone falling on that stone will be broken, but the man on whom the stone comes down will be crushed to dust.
  • Rom 9:4 : 4 Who are Israelites: who have the place of sons, and the glory, and the agreements with God, and the giving of the law, and the worship, and the hope offered by God:
  • 1 Cor 9:7 : 7 Who ever goes to war without looking to someone to be responsible for his payment? who puts in vines and does not take the fruit of them? or who takes care of sheep without drinking of their milk?
  • Rev 14:18-20 : 18 And another angel came out from the altar, who has power over fire; and he gave a loud cry to him who had the sharp curved blade, saying, Put in your sharp blade, and let the grapes of the vine of the earth be cut; for her grapes are fully ready. 19 And the angel sent his blade into the earth, and the vine of the earth was cut, and he put it into the great wine-crusher of the wrath of God. 20 And the grapes were crushed under foot outside the town, and blood came out from them, even to the head-bands of the horses, two hundred miles.

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  • Isa 5:3-7
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    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.

  • Isa 5:1
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    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:

  • Mark 12:1-2
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    1 And he gave them teaching in the form of stories. A man had a vine-garden planted, and put a wall about it, and made a place for crushing out the wine, and put up a tower, and let it out to field-workers, and went into another country.

    2 And when the time came, he sent a servant to get from the workmen some of the fruit of the garden.

  • Ezek 17:5-8
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    5 And he took some of the seed of the land, planting it in fertile earth, placing it by great waters; he put it in like a willow-tree.

    6 And its growth went on and it became a vine, low and widely stretching, whose branches were turned to him and its roots were under him: so it became a vine, putting out branches and young leaves.

    7 And there was another eagle with great wings and thick feathers: and now this vine, pushing out its roots to him, sent out its branches in his direction from the bed where it was planted, so that he might give it water.

    8 He had it planted in a good field by great waters so that it might put out branches and have fruit and be a strong vine.

  • Matt 21:33-35
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    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.

  • Jer 2:21
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    21 But when you were planted by me, you were a noble vine, in every way a true seed: how then have you been changed into the branching plant of a strange vine?

  • Isa 18:5
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    5 For before the time of getting in the grapes, after the opening of the bud, when the flower has become a grape ready for crushing, he will take away the small branches with knives, cutting down and taking away the wide-stretching branches.

  • Ps 80:15
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    15 Even to the tree which was planted by your right hand, and to the branch which you made strong for yourself.

  • Luke 20:9-10
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    9 And he gave the people this story: A man made a vine-garden and gave the use of it to some field-workers and went into another country for a long time.

    10 And at the right time he sent a servant to the workers to get part of the fruit from the vines; but the workmen gave him blows and sent him away with nothing.

  • Joel 1:7
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    7 By him my vine is made waste and my fig-tree broken: he has taken all its fruit and sent it down to the earth; its branches are made white.

  • Gen 40:10
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    10 And on the vine were three branches; and it seemed as if it put out buds and flowers, and from them came grapes ready for cutting.

  • Luke 13:6-7
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    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?

  • Mark 12:8-9
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    8 And they took him and put him to death, pushing his body out of the garden.

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  • Ps 80:8-9
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    8 You took a vine out of Egypt: driving out the nations, and planting it in their land.

    9 You made ready a place for it, so that it might take deep root, and it sent out its branches over all the land.

  • Jer 31:5
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    5 Again will your vine-gardens be planted on the hill of Samaria: the planters will be planting and using the fruit.

  • Matt 21:39-41
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    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.

  • Amos 5:11
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    11 So because the poor man is crushed under your feet, and you take taxes from him of grain: you have made for yourselves houses of cut stone, but you will not take your rest in them; the fair vine-gardens planted by your hands will not give you wine.

  • Jer 12:10
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    10 The keepers of sheep have been the destruction of my vine-garden, crushing my heritage under their feet; they have made my fair heritage an unplanted waste;

  • Hos 10:1
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    1 Israel is a branching vine, full of fruit; as his fruit is increased, so the number of his altars is increased; as the land is fair, so they have made fair pillars.

  • Luke 20:15-16
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    15 And driving him out of the garden they put him to death. Now what will the lord do to these workmen?

    16 He will come and put them to destruction and give the garden to others. And when he said this, they said, May it not be so.

  • Eccl 2:4-5
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    4 I undertook great works, building myself houses and planting vine-gardens.

    5 I made myself gardens and fruit gardens, planting in them fruit-trees of all sorts.

  • Isa 27:2
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    2 In that day it will be said, A vine-garden of delight, make a song about it.

  • Ezek 15:2
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    2 Son of man, what is the vine-tree more than any branching tree which is among the trees of the woods?

  • Job 15:33
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    33 He is like a vine whose grapes do not come to full growth, or an olive-tree dropping its flowers.

  • Deut 28:39
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    39 You will put in vines and take care of them, but you will get no wine or grapes from them; for they will be food for worms.

  • Amos 5:17
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    17 In all the vine-gardens there will be cries of grief: for I will go through among you, says the Lord.

  • Judg 9:13
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    13 But the vine said to them, Am I to give up my wine, which makes glad God and men, to go waving over the trees?

  • Amos 9:14
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    14 And I will let the fate of my people Israel be changed, and they will be building up again the waste towns and living in them; they will again be planting vine-gardens and taking the wine for their drink; and they will make gardens and get the fruit of them.

  • Luke 20:13
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    13 And the lord of the garden said, What am I to do? I will send my dearly loved son; they may give respect to him.

  • Deut 20:6
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    6 Or if any man has made a vine-garden without taking the first-fruits of it, let him go back to his house, so that in the event of his death in the fight, another may not be the first to make use of the fruit.

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    12 My vine-garden, which is mine, is before me: you, O Solomon, will have the thousand, and those who keep the fruit of them two hundred.

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    9 Do not have your vine-garden planted with two sorts of seed: or all of it may become a loss, the seed you have put in as well as the increase.