He answered,‘ Lord, leave it alone 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:

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

Let the priests, the ministers of Yahweh, weep between the porch and the altar, and let them say,“ Spare your people, Yahweh, and don’t give your heritage to reproach, that the nations should rule over them. Why should they say among the peoples,‘ Where is their God?’”

The Lord is not slow concerning his promise, as some count slowness; but he is patient with us, not wishing that anyone should perish, but that all should come to repentance.

Brothers, my heart’s desire and my prayer to God is for Israel, that they may be saved.

if by any means I may provoke to jealousy those who are my flesh, and may save some of them.

Then Yahweh said to me,“ Though Moses and Samuel stood before me, yet my mind would not turn toward this people. Cast them out of my sight, and let them go out!

Therefore he said that he would destroy them, had Moses, his chosen, not stood before him in the breach, to turn away his wrath, so that he wouldn’t destroy them.

On the next day, Moses said to the people,“ You have sinned a great sin. Now I will go up to Yahweh. Perhaps I shall make atonement for your sin.”Moses returned to Yahweh, and said,“ Oh, this people have sinned a great sin, and have made themselves gods of gold.Yet now, if you will, forgive their sin— and if not, please blot me out of your book which you have written.”

He said,“ If now I have found favor in your sight, Lord, please let the Lord go among us, even though this is a stiff- necked people; pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us for your inheritance.”

Moses begged Yahweh his God, and said,“ Yahweh, why does your wrath burn hot against your people, that you have brought out of the land of Egypt with great power and with a mighty hand?Why should the Egyptians talk, saying,‘ He brought them out for evil, to kill them in the mountains, and to consume them from the surface of the earth?’ Turn from your fierce wrath, and turn away from this evil against your people.Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, your servants, to whom you swore by your own self, and said to them,‘ I will multiply your offspring as the stars of the sky, and all this land that I have spoken of I will give to your offspring, and they shall inherit it forever.’”

Joshua said,“ Alas, Lord Yahweh, why have you brought this people over the Jordan at all, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to cause us to perish? I wish that we had been content and lived beyond the Jordan!Oh, Lord, what shall I say, after Israel has turned their backs before their enemies?For the Canaanites and all the inhabitants of the land will hear of it, and will surround us, and cut off our name from the earth. What will you do for your great name?”

Though our iniquities testify against us, work for your name’s sake, Yahweh; for our rebellions are many. We have sinned against you.You hope of Israel, its Savior in the time of trouble, why should you be as a foreigner in the land, and as a wayfaring man who turns aside to stay for a night?Why should you be like a scared man, as a mighty man who can’t save? Yet you, Yahweh, are in the middle of us, and we are called by your name. Don’t leave us.

Yahweh said to Moses,“ How long will this people despise me? and how long will they not believe in me, for all the signs which I have worked among them?I will strike them with the pestilence, and disinherit them, and will make of you a nation greater and mightier than they.”Moses said to Yahweh,“ Then the Egyptians will hear it; for you brought up this people in your might from among them.They will tell it to the inhabitants of this land. They have heard that you Yahweh are among this people; for you Yahweh are seen face to face, and your cloud stands over them, and you go before them, in a pillar of cloud by day, and in a pillar of fire by night.Now if you killed this people as one man, then the nations which have heard the fame of you will speak, saying,‘ Because Yahweh was not able to bring this people into the land which he swore to them, therefore he has slain them in the wilderness.’Now please let the power of the Lord be great, according as you have spoken, saying,‘ Yahweh is slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness, forgiving iniquity and disobedience; and he will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, on the third and on the fourth generation.’Please pardon the iniquity of this people according to the greatness of your loving kindness, and just as you have forgiven this people, from Egypt even until now.”Yahweh said,“ I have pardoned according to your word;

Then I said,“ Ah, Lord Yahweh! Behold, the prophets tell them,‘ You will not see the sword, neither will you have famine; but I will give you assured peace in this place.’”Then Yahweh said to me,“ The prophets prophesy lies in my name. I didn’t send them. I didn’t command them. I didn’t speak to them. They prophesy to you a lying vision, divination, and a thing of nothing, and the deceit of their own heart.Therefore Yahweh says concerning the prophets who prophesy in my name, but I didn’t send them, yet they say,‘ Sword and famine will not be in this land.’ Those prophets will be consumed by sword and famine.The people to whom they prophesy will be cast out in the streets of Jerusalem because of the famine and the sword. They will have no one to bury them— them, their wives, their sons, or their daughters, for I will pour their wickedness on them.“ You shall say this word to them:“‘ Let my eyes run down with tears night and day, and let them not cease; for the virgin daughter of my people is broken with a great breach, with a very grievous wound.If I go out into the field, then, behold, the slain with the sword! If I enter into the city, then, behold, those who are sick with famine! For both the prophet and the priest go about in the land, and have no knowledge.’”

Should evil be recompensed for good? For they have dug a pit for my soul. Remember how I stood before you to speak good for them, to turn away your wrath from them.