Isaiah 5:1-7 NKJV


Isaiah 5:1-7 Now let me sing to my Well-beloved A song of my Beloved regarding His vineyard: My Well-beloved has a vineyard On a very fruitful hill.

He dug it up and cleared out its stones, And planted it with the choicest vine. He built a tower in its midst, And also made a winepress in it; So He expected it to bring forth good grapes, But it brought forth wild grapes.

And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem  and men of Judah, Judge, Please, between Me and My vineyard.

What more could have been done to My vineyard That I have not done in it? Why then, when I expected it to bring forth good grapes, Did it bring forth wild grapes?

And now, please let Me tell you what I will do to My vineyard: I will take away its hedge, and it shall be burned; And break down its wall, and it shall be trampled down.

I will lay it waste; It shall not be pruned or dug, But there shall come up briers and thorns. I will also command the clouds That they rain no rain on it."

For the vineyard of the LORD  of hosts is the house of Israel, And the men of Judah are His pleasant plant. He looked for justice, but behold, oppression; For righteousness, but behold, a cry for help.

Psalm 80:12-19 Why have You broken down her hedges, So that all who pass by the way pluck her fruit?

The boar out of woods uproots it, And the wild beast of the field devours it.

Return, we beseech You, O God  of hosts; Look down from heaven and see, And visit this vine

And the vineyard which Your right hand has planted, And the branch that You made strong for Yourself.

It is burned with fire, it is cut down; They perish at the rebuke of Your countenance.

Let Your hand be upon the man of Your right hand, Upon the son of man whom You made strong for Yourself.

Then we will not turn back from you; Revive us, and we will call upon Your name.

Restore us, O LORD God of hosts; Cause Your face to shine, And we shall be saved!

Jeremiah 2:20-25 "For of old I have broken your yoke and burst your bonds; And you said, 'I will not transgress,' When on every high hill and under every green tree You lay down, playing the harlot.

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?

For though you wash yourself with lye, and use much soap, Yet your iniquity is marked before Me," says the Lord GOD.

"How can you say, 'I am not polluted, I have not gone after the Baals'? See your way in the valley; Know what you have done; You are a swift dromedary breaking loose in her ways,

A wild donkey used to the wilderness, That sniffs at the wind in her desire; In her time of mating, who can turn her away? All those who seek her will not weary themselves; In her mouth they will find her.

Withhold your foot from being unshod, and your throat from thirst. But you said, 'There is no hope. No! For I have loved aliens, and after them I will go.'

Romans 3:1-8 What advantage then has the Jew, or what is the profit of circumcision?

Much in every way! Chiefly because to them were committed the oracles of God.

For what if some did not believe? Will their unbelief make the faithfulness of God without effect?

Certainly not! Indeed, let God be true but every man a liar. As it is written: "That You may be justified in Your words, And may overcome when you are judged."

But if our unrighteousness demonstrates the righteousness of God, what shall we say? Is God unjust who inflicts wrath? (I speak as a man.)

Certainly not! For then how will God judge the world?

For if the truth of God has increased through my lie to His glory, why am I also still judged as sinner?

And why not say, "Let us do evil that good may come"?--as we are slanderously reported and as some affirm that we say. Their condemnation is just.