“ But he replied to him,‘ Sir, leave it this year also, until I dig around it and fertilize it.

管园的说：‘主啊，今年且留着，等我周围掘开土，加上粪；

园丁回答：‘主啊，今年且留着，等我在树周围掘开土，加上肥料，

园丁回答：‘主啊，今年且留着，等我在树周围掘开土，加上肥料，

“园丁请求说，‘主人，再留它一年吧！让我在它四周松土、施肥，

管园的说：‘主人，今年且留着它，等我把周围的泥土挖松，加上肥料；

“但是园丁回答，对他说：‘主人，今年再留着它吧。等我在它周围挖掘，施些粪肥，

管園的說：『主啊，今年且留着，等我周圍掘開土，加上糞；

園丁回答：『主啊，今年且留着，等我在樹周圍掘開土，加上肥料，

園丁回答：『主啊，今年且留着，等我在樹周圍掘開土，加上肥料，

「園丁請求說，『主人，再留它一年吧！讓我在它四周鬆土、施肥，

管園的說：‘主人，今年且留著它，等我把周圍的泥土挖鬆，加上肥料；

園工回答他說：「主人啊，這一年也容它吧；等我在它周圍挖掘，撒上糞。

「但是園丁回答，對他說：『主人，今年再留著它吧。等我在它周圍挖掘，施些糞肥，

對曰、主、今歲姑容之、待我周掘壅糞、

對曰、主、今歲且容之、待我周掘壅糞、

對曰、主、今歲姑容之、待我周掘壅糞、

園丁對曰：「主、今春姑留、待我疏其周圍之土、而糞之、

“‘ Sir,’ the man replied,‘ leave it alone for one more year, and I’ll dig around it and fertilize it.

“‘ Sir,’ the man replied,‘ leave it alone for one more year. I’ll dig around it and feed it.

And he answered him,‘ Sir, let it alone this year also, until I dig around it and put on manure.

“ The gardener answered,‘ Sir, give it one more chance. Leave it another year, and I’ll give it special attention and plenty of fertilizer.

“ But he replied to him,‘ Sir, leave it this year also, until I dig around it and fertilize it.

But he answered and said to him,‘ Sir, leave it alone for this year too, until I dig around it and put in fertilizer;

But he answered and said to him,‘ Sir, let it alone this year also, until I dig around it and fertilize it.

And he answering saith unto him, Lord, let it alone this year also, till I shall dig about it, and dung it:

And he answering said unto him, Lord, let it alone this year also, till I shall dig about it, and dung[ it]:

But the worker answered him,‘ Sir, leave it alone this year too, until I dig around it and put fertilizer on it.

He answered,‘ Lord, leave it alone this year also, until I dig around it and fertilize it.

Let the priests, the Lord’s ministers, weep between the portico and the altar. Let them say:“ Have pity on Your people, Lord, and do not make Your inheritance a disgrace, an object of scorn among the nations. Why should it be said among the peoples,‘ Where is their God?’”

The Lord does not delay His promise, as some understand delay, but is patient with you, not wanting any to perish but all to come to repentance.

Brothers, my heart’s desire and prayer to God concerning them is for their salvation!

if I can somehow make my own people jealous and save some of them.

Then the Lord said to me:“ Even if Moses and Samuel should stand before Me, My compassions would not reach out to these people. Send them from My presence, and let them go.

So He said He would have destroyed them— if Moses His chosen one had not stood before Him in the breach to turn His wrath away from destroying them.

The following day Moses said to the people,“ You have committed a grave sin. Now I will go up to the Lord; perhaps I will be able to atone for your sin.”So Moses returned to the Lord and said,“ Oh, these people have committed a grave sin; they have made a god of gold for themselves.Now if You would only forgive their sin. But if not, please erase me from the book You have written.”

Then he said,“ My Lord, if I have indeed found favor in Your sight, my Lord, please go with us. Even though this is a stiff-necked people, forgive our wrongdoing and sin, and accept us as Your own possession.”

But Moses interceded with the Lord his God:“ Lord, why does Your anger burn against Your people You brought out of the land of Egypt with great power and a strong hand?Why should the Egyptians say,‘ He brought them out with an evil intent to kill them in the mountains and wipe them off the face of the earth’? Turn from Your great anger and relent concerning this disaster planned for Your people.Remember Your servants Abraham, Isaac, and Israel— You swore to them by Your very self and declared,‘ I will make your offspring as numerous as the stars of the sky and will give your offspring all this land that I have promised, and they will inherit it forever.’”

“ Oh, Lord God,” Joshua said,“ why did You ever bring these people across the Jordan to hand us over to the Amorites for our destruction? If only we had been content to remain on the other side of the Jordan!What can I say, Lord, now that Israel has turned its back and run from its enemies?When the Canaanites and all who live in the land hear about this, they will surround us and wipe out our name from the earth. Then what will You do about Your great name?”

Though our guilt testifies against us, Yahweh, act for Your name’s sake. Indeed, our rebellions are many; we have sinned against You.Hope of Israel, its Savior in time of distress, why are You like a foreigner in the land, like a traveler stopping only for the night?Why are You like a helpless man, like a warrior unable to save? Yet You are among us, Yahweh, and we are called by Your name. Don’t leave us!

The Lord said to Moses,“ How long will these people despise Me? How long will they not trust in Me despite all the signs I have performed among them?I will strike them with a plague and destroy them. Then I will make you into a greater and mightier nation than they are.”But Moses replied to the Lord,“ The Egyptians will hear about it, for by Your strength You brought up this people from them.They will tell it to the inhabitants of this land. They have heard that You, Lord, are among these people, how You, Lord, are seen face to face, how Your cloud stands over them, and how You go before them in a pillar of cloud by day and in a pillar of fire by night.If You kill this people with a single blow, the nations that have heard of Your fame will declare,‘ Since the Lord wasn’t able to bring this people into the land He swore to give them, He has slaughtered them in the wilderness.’“ So now, may my Lord’s power be magnified just as You have spoken:The Lord is slow to anger and rich in faithful love, forgiving wrongdoing and rebellion. But He will not leave the guilty unpunished, bringing the consequences of the fathers’ wrongdoing on the children to the third and fourth generation.Please pardon the wrongdoing of this people, in keeping with the greatness of Your faithful love, just as You have forgiven them from Egypt until now.”The Lord responded,“ I have pardoned them as you requested.

And I replied,“ Oh no, Lord God! The prophets are telling them,‘ You won’t see sword or suffer famine. I will certainly give you true peace in this place.’”But the Lord said to me,“ These prophets are prophesying a lie in My name. I did not send them, nor did I command them or speak to them. They are prophesying to you a false vision, worthless divination, the deceit of their own minds.“ Therefore, this is what the Lord says concerning the prophets who prophesy in My name, though I did not send them, and who say,‘ There will never be sword or famine in this land.’ By sword and famine these prophets will meet their end.The people they are prophesying to will be thrown into the streets of Jerusalem because of the famine and the sword. There will be no one to bury them— they, their wives, their sons, and their daughters. I will pour out their own evil on them.”You are to speak this word to them: Let my eyes overflow with tears; day and night may they not stop, for the virgin daughter of my people has been destroyed by a great disaster, an extremely severe wound.If I go out to the field, look— those slain by the sword! If I enter the city, look— those ill from famine! For both prophet and priest travel to a land they do not know.

Should good be repaid with evil? Yet they have dug a pit for me. Remember how I stood before You to speak good on their behalf, to turn Your anger from them.