Isa 5:1-7, 27:2-3, Jer 2:21, Eze 15:6, 17:6, 19:10, Mat 21:33-41 | ESV | STEP | Let me sing for my beloved my love song concerning his vineyard : My beloved had a vineyard on a very fertile hill .

1 Let me sing for my beloved
my love song concerning his vineyard:
My beloved had ^aa vineyard
on a very fertile hill.
2 He dug it and cleared it of stones,
and planted it with ^bchoice vines;
he built a watchtower in the midst of it,
and hewed out a wine vat in it;
and ^che looked for it to yield grapes,
but it yielded wild grapes.
3 And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem
and men of Judah,
judge between me and my vineyard.
4 ^dWhat more was there to do for my vineyard,
that I have not done in it?
^eWhen I looked for it to yield grapes,
why did it yield wild grapes?
5 And now I will tell you
what I will do to my vineyard.
I will remove ^fits hedge,
and it shall be devoured; ^{▼▼Or grazed over; compare Exodus 22:5}
^hI will break down its wall,
and it shall be trampled down.
6 I will make it a waste;
it shall not be pruned or hoed,
and ⁱbriers and thorns shall grow up;
^jI will also command the clouds
that they rain no rain upon it.
7 ^kFor the vineyard of the Lord of hosts
is the house of Israel,
and the men of Judah
are his pleasant planting;
and he looked for justice,
but behold, bloodshed; ^{▼▼The Hebrew words for justice and bloodshed sound alike}
for righteousness,
but behold, an outcry! ^{▼▼The Hebrew words for righteous and outcry sound alike}

Isaiah 27:2-3

2 In that day,
ⁿ“A pleasant vineyard, ^{▼▼Many Hebrew manuscripts A vineyard of wine} ^psing of it!
3 I, the Lord, am its keeper;
every moment I water it.
Lest anyone punish it,
I keep it night and day;

Jeremiah 2:21

21 ^qYet I planted you a choice vine,
wholly of pure seed.
^rHow then have you turned degenerate
and become a wild vine?

Ezekiel 15:6

6 Therefore thus says the Lord God: ^sLike the wood of the vine among the trees of the forest, ^twhich I have given to the fire for fuel, so have I given up the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

Ezekiel 17:6

6 and it sprouted and became a ^ulow ^vspreading vine, and its branches turned toward him, and its roots remained where it stood. So it became a vine and produced branches and put out boughs.

Ezekiel 19:10

10 Your mother was ^wlike a vine in a vineyard ^{▼▼Some Hebrew manuscripts; most Hebrew manuscripts in your blood}
planted by the water,
^yfruitful and full of branches
^zby reason of abundant water.

Matthew 21:33-41

The Parable of the Tenants

33 ^aa“Hear another parable. There was a master of a house who planted ^aba vineyard ^acand put a fence around it and dug a winepress in it and built a tower and ^adleased it to tenants, and ^aewent into another country. 34 When the season for fruit drew near, he sent his servants ^{▼▼Greek bondservants; also verses 35, 36} to the tenants ^agto get his fruit. 35 ^ahAnd the tenants took his servants and beat one, killed another, and ^aistoned another. 36 ^ajAgain he sent other servants, more than the first. And they did the same to them. 37 Finally he sent his son to them, saying, ‘They will respect my son.’ 38 But when the tenants saw the son, they said to themselves, ^ak‘This is the heir. Come, ^allet us kill him and have his inheritance.’ 39 And they took him and ^amthrew him out of the vineyard and killed him. 40 ^anWhen therefore the owner of the vineyard comes, what will he do to those tenants?” 41 They said to him, ^ao“He will put those wretches to a miserable death and ^aplet out the vineyard to other tenants who will give him the fruits in their seasons.”