Isa 5:1-7, Jer 17:6, 44:22, Mar 11:14, 21, Luk 13:7-9 | 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}

Jeremiah 17:6

6 ⁿHe is like a shrub in the desert,
^oand shall not see any good come.
He shall dwell in the parched places of the wilderness,
in ^pan uninhabited salt land.

Jeremiah 44:22

22 ^qThe Lord could no longer bear your evil deeds and ^rthe abominations that you committed. ^sTherefore your land has become ^ta desolation and a waste and a curse, ^uwithout inhabitant, as it is this day.

Mark 11:14

14 And he said to it, “May no one ever eat fruit from you again.” And his disciples heard it.

Mark 11:21

21 And Peter remembered and said to him, ^v“Rabbi, look! The fig tree that you cursed has withered.”

Luke 13:7-9

7 And he said to the vinedresser, ‘Look, for three years now I have come seeking fruit on this fig tree, and I find none. ^wCut it down. Why should it use up the ground?’ 8 And he answered him, ‘Sir, let it alone this year also, until I dig around it and put on manure. 9 Then if it should bear fruit next year, well and good; but if not, you can cut it down.’”