Isaiah 5:4

World English Bible (2000)

What could have been done more to my vineyard, that I have not done in it? Why, when I looked for it to yield grapes, did it yield wild grapes?

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  • Matt 23:37 : 37 "Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets, and stones those who are sent to her! How often I would have gathered your children together, even as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, and you would not!
  • Acts 7:51-60 : 51 "You stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Spirit! As your fathers did, so you do. 52 Which of the prophets didn't your fathers persecute? They killed those who foretold the coming of the Righteous One, of whom you have now become betrayers and murderers. 53 You received the law as it was ordained by angels, and didn't keep it!" 54 Now when they heard these things, they were cut to the heart, and they gnashed at him with their teeth. 55 But he, being full of the Holy Spirit, looked up steadfastly into heaven, and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing on the right hand of God, 56 and said, "Behold, I see the heavens opened, and the Son of Man standing at the right hand of God!" 57 But they cried out with a loud voice, and stopped their ears, and rushed at him with one accord. 58 They threw him out of the city, and stoned him. The witnesses placed their garments at the feet of a young man named Saul. 59 They stoned Stephen as he called out, saying, "Lord Jesus, receive my spirit!" 60 He kneeled down, and cried with a loud voice, "Lord, don't hold this sin against them!" When he had said this, he fell asleep.
  • 2 Chr 36:14-16 : 14 Moreover all the chiefs of the priests, and the people, trespassed very greatly after all the abominations of the nations; and they polluted the house of Yahweh which he had made holy in Jerusalem. 15 Yahweh, the God of their fathers, sent to them by his messengers, rising up early and sending, because he had compassion on his people, and on his dwelling place: 16 but they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words, and scoffed at his prophets, until the wrath of Yahweh arose against his people, until there was no remedy.
  • Isa 1:5 : 5 Why should you be beaten more, that you revolt more and more? The whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.
  • Jer 2:5 : 5 Thus says Yahweh, "What unrighteousness have your fathers found in me, that they have gone far from me, and have walked after vanity, and are become vain?
  • Jer 2:30-31 : 30 "I have struck your children in vain. They received no correction. Your own sword has devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion. 31 Generation, consider the word of Yahweh. Have I been a wilderness to Israel? Or a land of thick darkness? Why do my people say, 'We have broken loose. We will come to you no more?'
  • Jer 6:29-30 : 29 The bellows blow fiercely; the lead is consumed of the fire: in vain do they go on refining; for the wicked are not plucked away. 30 Men will call them rejected silver, because Yahweh has rejected them."
  • Ezek 24:13 : 13 In your filthiness is lewdness: because I have cleansed you and you weren't cleansed, you shall not be cleansed from your filthiness any more, until I have caused my wrath toward you to rest.
  • Mic 6:3-4 : 3 My people, what have I done to you? How have I burdened you? Answer me! 4 For I brought you up out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed you out of the house of bondage. I sent before you Moses, Aaron, and Miriam.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Isa 5:1-3
    3 verses
    88%

    1Let me sing for my well beloved a song of my beloved about his vineyard. My beloved had a vineyard on a very fruitful hill.

    2He dug it up, gathered out its stones, planted it with the choicest vine, built a tower in its midst, and also cut out a winepress therein. He looked for it to yield grapes, but it yielded wild grapes.

    3"Now, inhabitants of Jerusalem and men of Judah, please judge between me and my vineyard.

  • Isa 5:5-7
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    85%

    5Now I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard. I will take away its hedge, and it will be eaten up. I will break down its wall of it, and it will be trampled down.

    6I will lay it a wasteland. It won't be pruned nor hoed, but it will grow briers and thorns. I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain on it."

    7For the vineyard of Yahweh of Armies is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasant plant: and he looked for justice, but, behold, oppression; for righteousness, but, behold, a cry of distress.

  • Jer 2:21
    77%

    21Yet I had planted you a noble vine, wholly a right seed. How then have you turned into the degenerate branches of a foreign vine to me?

  • Mark 12:1-2
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    1He began to speak to them in parables. "A man planted a vineyard, put a hedge around it, dug a pit for the winepress, built a tower, rented it out to a farmer, and went into another country.

    2When it was time, he sent a servant to the farmer to get from the farmer his share of the fruit of the vineyard.

  • Mark 12:8-9
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    76%

    8They took him, killed him, and cast him out of the vineyard.

    9What therefore will the lord of the vineyard do? He will come and destroy the farmers, and will give the vineyard to others.

  • Luke 13:6-7
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    76%

    6He spoke this parable. "A certain man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard, and he came seeking fruit on it, and found none.

    7He said to the vine dresser, 'Behold, these three years I have come looking for fruit on this fig tree, and found none. Cut it down. Why does it waste the soil?'

  • Matt 21:39-41
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    76%

    39So they took him, and threw him out of the vineyard, and killed him.

    40When therefore the lord of the vineyard comes, what will he do to those farmers?"

    41They told him, "He will miserably destroy those miserable men, and will lease out the vineyard to other farmers, who will give him the fruit in its season."

  • Isa 18:5
    76%

    5For before the harvest, when the blossom is over, and the flower becomes a ripening grape, he will cut off the sprigs with pruning hooks, and he will cut down and take away the spreading branches.

  • Jer 12:10
    75%

    10Many shepherds have destroyed my vineyard, they have trodden my portion under foot, they have made my pleasant portion a desolate wilderness.

  • Luke 20:15-16
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    75%

    15They threw him out of the vineyard, and killed him. What therefore will the lord of the vineyard do to them?

    16He will come and destroy these farmers, and will give the vineyard to others." When they heard it, they said, "May it never be!"

  • Ezek 17:5-8
    4 verses
    75%

    5He took also of the seed of the land, and planted it in a fruitful soil; he placed it beside many waters; he set it as a willow tree.

    6It grew, and became a spreading vine of low stature, whose branches turned toward him, and its roots were under him: so it became a vine, and brought forth branches, and shot forth sprigs.

    7There was also another great eagle with great wings and many feathers: and behold, this vine did bend its roots toward him, and shot forth its branches toward him, from the beds of its plantation, that he might water it.

    8It was planted in a good soil by many waters, that it might bring forth branches, and that it might bear fruit, that it might be a goodly vine.

  • Joel 1:7
    75%

    7He has laid my vine waste, and stripped my fig tree. He has stripped its bark, and thrown it away. Its branches are made white.

  • Luke 20:9-10
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    75%

    9He began to tell the people this parable. "A man planted a vineyard, and rented it out to some farmers, and went into another country for a long time.

    10At the proper season, he sent a servant to the farmers to collect his share of the fruit of the vineyard. But the farmers beat him, and sent him away empty.

  • Luke 20:13
    75%

    13The lord of the vineyard said, 'What shall I do? I will send my beloved son. It may be that seeing him, they will respect him.'

  • Matt 21:33-35
    3 verses
    74%

    33"Hear another parable. There was a man who was a master of a household, who planted a vineyard, set a hedge about it, dug a winepress in it, built a tower, leased it out to farmers, and went into another country.

    34When the season for the fruit drew near, he sent his servants to the farmers, to receive his fruit.

    35The farmers took his servants, beat one, killed another, and stoned another.

  • Amos 5:17
    74%

    17In all vineyards there will be wailing; for I will pass through the midst of you," says Yahweh.

  • Ps 80:15
    74%

    15the stock which your right hand planted, the branch that you made strong for yourself.

  • Ezek 15:5-6
    2 verses
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    5Behold, when it was whole, it was meet for no work: how much less, when the fire has devoured it, and it is burned, shall it yet be meet for any work!

    6Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: As the vine tree among the trees of the forest, which I have given to the fire for fuel, so will I give the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

  • Ezek 15:2
    73%

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

  • Ps 80:12-13
    2 verses
    73%

    12Why have you broken down its walls, so that all those who pass by the way pluck it?

    13The boar out of the wood ravages it. The wild animals of the field feed on it.

  • Judg 9:13
    72%

    13"The vine said to them, 'Should I leave my new wine, which cheers God and man, and go to wave back and forth over the trees?'

  • Obad 1:5
    71%

    5"If thieves came to you, if robbers by night--oh, what disaster awaits you--wouldn't they only steal until they had enough? If grape pickers came to you, wouldn't they leave some gleaning grapes?

  • Gen 40:10
    71%

    10and in the vine were three branches. It was as though it budded, its blossoms shot forth, and its clusters brought forth ripe grapes.

  • Amos 5:11
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    11Forasmuch therefore as you trample on the poor, and take taxes from him of wheat: You have built houses of cut stone, but you will not dwell in them. You have planted pleasant vineyards, but you shall not drink their wine.

  • John 15:1
    71%

    1"I am the true vine, and my Father is the farmer.

  • Deut 20:6
    71%

    6What man is there who has planted a vineyard, and has not used its fruit? Let him go and return to his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man use its fruit.

  • Jer 11:15
    71%

    15What has my beloved to do in my house, since she has worked lewdness [with] many, and the holy flesh is passed from you? when you do evil, then you rejoice.

  • Luke 13:9
    71%

    9If it bears fruit, fine; but if not, after that, you can cut it down.'"

  • Song 8:12
    71%

    12My own vineyard is before me. The thousand are for you, Solomon; two hundred for those who tend its fruit. Lover

  • Isa 27:2
    71%

    2In that day, sing to her, "A pleasant vineyard!

  • Jer 2:7
    71%

    7I brought you into a plentiful land, to eat its fruit and its goodness; but when you entered, you defiled my land, and made my heritage an abomination.

  • Jer 4:17
    71%

    17As keepers of a field, they are against her all around, because she has been rebellious against me,'" says Yahweh.