Isaiah 5:4

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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?

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  • Matt 23:37 : 37 O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, putting to death the prophets, and stoning those who are sent to her! Again and again would I have taken your children to myself as a bird takes her young ones under her wings, and you would not!
  • Acts 7:51-60 : 51 You whose hearts are hard and whose ears are shut to me; you are ever working against the Holy Spirit; as your fathers did, so do you. 52 Which of the prophets was not cruelly attacked by your fathers? and they put to death those who gave them the news of the coming of the Upright One; whom you have now given up and put to death; 53 You, to whom the law was given as it was ordered by angels, and who have not kept it. 54 Hearing these things, they were cut to the heart and moved with wrath against him. 55 But he was full of the Holy Spirit, and looking up to heaven, he saw the glory of God and Jesus at the right hand of God. 56 And he said, Now I see heaven open, and the Son of man at the right hand of God. 57 But with loud cries, and stopping their ears, they made an attack on him all together, 58 Driving him out of the town and stoning him: and the witnesses put their clothing at the feet of a young man named Saul. 59 And Stephen, while he was being stoned, made prayer to God, saying, Lord Jesus, take my spirit. 60 And going down on his knees, he said in a loud voice, Lord, do not make them responsible for this sin. And when he had said this, he went to his rest.
  • 2 Chr 36:14-16 : 14 And more than this, all the great men of Judah and the priests and the people made their sin great, turning to all the disgusting ways of the nations; and they made unclean the house of the Lord which he had made holy in Jerusalem. 15 And the Lord, the God of their fathers, sent word to them by his servants, sending early and frequently, because he had pity on his people and on his living-place; 16 But they put shame on the servants of God, making sport of his words and laughing at his prophets, till the wrath of God was moved against his people, till there was no help.
  • Isa 1:5 : 5 Why will you have more and more punishment? why keep on in your evil ways? Every head is tired and every heart is feeble.
  • Jer 2:5 : 5 These are the words of the Lord: What evil have your fathers seen in me that they have gone far from me, and, walking after what is false, have become false?
  • Jer 2:30-31 : 30 I gave your children blows to no purpose; they got no good from training: your sword has been the destruction of your prophets, like a death-giving lion. 31 O generation, see the word of the Lord. Have I been a waste land to Israel? or a land of dark night? why do my people say, We have got loose, we will not come to you again?
  • Jer 6:29-30 : 29 The blower is blowing strongly, the lead is burned away in the fire: they go on heating the metal to no purpose, for the evil-doers are not taken away. 30 They will be named waste silver, because the Lord has given them up.
  • Ezek 24:13 : 13 As for your unclean purpose: because I have been attempting to make you clean, but you have not been made clean from it, you will not be made clean till I have let loose my passion on you in full measure.
  • Mic 6:3-4 : 3 O my people, what have I done to you? how have I been a weariness to you? give answer against me. 4 For I took you up out of the land of Egypt and made you free from the prison-house; I sent before you Moses, Aaron, and Miriam.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Isa 5:1-3
    3 verses
    88%

    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.

  • Isa 5:5-7
    3 verses
    85%

    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.

  • Jer 2:21
    77%

    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 12:1-2
    2 verses
    76%

    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.

  • Mark 12:8-9
    2 verses
    76%

    8 And they took him and put him to death, pushing his body out of the garden.

    9 What then will the master of the garden do? He will come and put the workmen to death, and will give the garden into the hands of others.

  • Luke 13:6-7
    2 verses
    76%

    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?

  • Matt 21:39-41
    3 verses
    76%

    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.

  • Isa 18:5
    76%

    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.

  • Jer 12:10
    75%

    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;

  • Luke 20:15-16
    2 verses
    75%

    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.

  • Ezek 17:5-8
    4 verses
    75%

    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.

  • Joel 1:7
    75%

    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.

  • Luke 20:9-10
    2 verses
    75%

    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.

  • Luke 20:13
    75%

    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.

  • Matt 21:33-35
    3 verses
    74%

    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.

  • Amos 5:17
    74%

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

  • Ps 80:15
    74%

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

  • Ezek 15:5-6
    2 verses
    74%

    5 Truly, before it was cut down, it was not used for any purpose: how much less, when the fire has made a meal of it and it is burned, will it be made into anything?

    6 For this cause the Lord has said: Like the vine-tree among the trees of the woods which I have given to the fire for burning, so will I give the people of Jerusalem.

  • Ezek 15:2
    73%

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

  • Ps 80:12-13
    2 verses
    73%

    12 Why are its walls broken down by your hands, so that all who go by may take its fruit?

    13 It is uprooted by the pigs from the woods, the beasts of the field get their food from it.

  • Judg 9:13
    72%

    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?

  • Obad 1:5
    71%

    5 If thieves came, attacking you by night, (how are you cut off!) would they not go on taking till they had enough? if men came cutting your grapes would they take them all?

  • Gen 40:10
    71%

    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.

  • Amos 5:11
    71%

    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.

  • John 15:1
    71%

    1 I am the true vine and my Father is the gardener.

  • Deut 20:6
    71%

    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.

  • Jer 11:15
    71%

    15 About Judah. What have you to do in my house? is it your thought that oaths and holy flesh will get you out of your trouble? will you make yourself safe in this way?

  • Luke 13:9
    71%

    9 And if, after that, it has fruit, it is well; if not, let it be cut down.

  • Song 8:12
    71%

    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.

  • Isa 27:2
    71%

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

  • Jer 2:7
    71%

    7 And I took you into a fertile land, where you were living on its fruit and its wealth; but when you came in, you made my land unclean, and made my heritage a disgusting thing.

  • Jer 4:17
    71%

    17 Like keepers of a field they are against her on every side; because she has been fighting against me, says the Lord.