I planted you, a choice vine from the very best seed. How then could you turn into a degenerate, foreign vine?

然而，我栽你是上等的葡萄树，全然是真种子；你怎么向我变为外邦葡萄树的坏枝子呢？

然而，我栽种你为上等的葡萄树，全用纯正的种子；你怎么向我变为外邦葡萄树的坏枝子呢？

然而，我栽种你为上等的葡萄树，全用纯正的种子；你怎么向我变为外邦葡萄树的坏枝子呢？

你原本是我栽种的上等葡萄树，是最好的品种。你怎么自甘堕落，变成了野葡萄？

我栽你时原是上等的葡萄树，是绝对纯种的；你怎么在我面前变为坏枝子，成了野葡萄呢？

然而，我栽你是上等的葡萄樹，全然是真種子；你怎麼向我變為外邦葡萄樹的壞枝子呢？

然而，我栽種你為上等的葡萄樹，全用純正的種子；你怎麼向我變為外邦葡萄樹的壞枝子呢？

然而，我栽種你為上等的葡萄樹，全用純正的種子；你怎麼向我變為外邦葡萄樹的壞枝子呢？

你原本是我栽種的上等葡萄樹，是最好的品種。你怎麼自甘墮落，變成了野葡萄？

我栽你時原是上等的葡萄樹，是絕對純種的；你怎麼在我面前變為壞枝子，成了野葡萄呢？

然而我，我栽了你是上好的葡萄樹，全是真正的種；你怎會向我變為外來葡萄樹的偏差種呢？

然我植爾為嘉葡萄、出於嘉種、爾奚變為異種葡萄之劣枝乎、

昔我肇造爾邦、若植葡萄、擇其嘉種。迄於今、嘉者奚變為劣。

昔我植爾為嘉葡萄樹、種盡真種、今奚變為壞葡萄樹、枝悉惡劣、

I had planted you like a choice vine of sound and reliable stock. How then did you turn against me into a corrupt, wild vine?

You were like a good vine when I planted you. You were a healthy plant. Then how did you turn against me? How did you become a bad, wild vine?

Yet I planted you a choice vine, wholly of pure seed. How then have you turned degenerate and become a wild vine?

But I was the one who planted you, choosing a vine of the purest stock— the very best. How did you grow into this corrupt wild vine?

Yet I planted you as a choice vine, A completely faithful seed. How then have you turned yourself before Me Into the degenerate shoots of a foreign vine?

Yet I had planted you a noble vine, a seed of highest quality. How then have you turned before Me Into the degenerate plant of an alien vine?

Yet I had planted thee a noble vine, wholly a right seed: how then art thou turned into the degenerate branches of a foreign vine unto me?

I planted you, a choice vine from the very best seed. How then could you turn into a degenerate, foreign vine?

Yet I had planted thee a noble vine, wholly a right seed: how then art thou turned into the degenerate plant of a strange vine unto me?

I planted you in the land like a special vine of the very best stock. Why in the world have you turned into something like a wild vine that produces rotten, foul-smelling grapes?

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

What more could I have done for my vineyard than I did? Why, when I expected a yield of good grapes, did it yield worthless grapes?

You will bring them in and plant them on the mountain of your possession; LORD, you have prepared the place for your dwelling; Lord, your hands have established the sanctuary.

You dug up a vine from Egypt; you drove out the nations and planted it.

“ I am the true vine, and my Father is the gardener.

In order to plant them, you displaced the nations by your hand; in order to settle them, you brought disaster on the peoples.

For their vine is from the vine of Sodom and from the fields of Gomorrah. Their grapes are poisonous; their clusters are bitter.

Now he began to tell the people this parable:“ A man planted a vineyard, leased it to tenant farmers, and went away for a long time.

“ Listen to another parable: There was a landowner, who planted a vineyard, put a fence around it, dug a winepress in it, and built a watchtower. He leased it to tenant farmers and went away.

He began to speak to them in parables:“ A man planted a vineyard, put a fence around it, dug out a pit for a winepress, and built a watchtower. Then he leased it to tenant farmers and went away.

Because he loved your ancestors, he chose their descendants after them and brought you out of Egypt by his presence and great power,

But you, Israel, my servant, Jacob, whom I have chosen, descendant of Abraham, my friend—

you offspring of Abraham his servant, Jacob’s descendants— his chosen ones.

stay in this land as an alien, and I will be with you and bless you. For I will give all these lands to you and your offspring, and I will confirm the oath that I swore to your father Abraham.I will make your offspring as numerous as the stars of the sky, I will give your offspring all these lands, and all the nations of the earth will be blessed by your offspring,because Abraham listened to me and kept my mandate, my commands, my statutes, and my instructions.”

“ Your name will no longer be Jacob,” he said.“ It will be Israel because you have struggled with God and with men and have prevailed.”

The faithful town— what an adulteress she has become! She was once full of justice. Righteousness once dwelt in her, but now, murderers!

For I have chosen him so that he will command his children and his house after him to keep the way of the LORD by doing what is right and just. This is how the LORD will fulfill to Abraham what he promised him.”

I will sing about the one I love, a song about my loved one’s vineyard: The one I love had a vineyard on a very fertile hill.He broke up the soil, cleared it of stones, and planted it with the finest vines. He built a tower in the middle of it and even dug out a winepress there. He expected it to yield good grapes, but it yielded worthless grapes.

to provide for those who mourn in Zion; to give them a crown of beauty instead of ashes, festive oil instead of mourning, and splendid clothes instead of despair. And they will be called righteous trees, planted by the LORD to glorify him.

Israel worshiped the LORD throughout Joshua’s lifetime and during the lifetimes of the elders who outlived Joshua and who had experienced all the works the LORD had done for Israel.

All your people will be righteous; they will possess the land forever; they are the branch I planted, the work of my hands, so that I may be glorified.

How the gold has become tarnished, the fine gold become dull! The stones of the temple lie scattered at the head of every street.