You bring them in and plant them on your mountain, the place that you, LORD, have chosen for your home, the Temple that you yourself have built.

how you yourself drove out the heathen and established your people in their land; how you punished the other nations and caused your own to prosper.

You brought a grapevine out of Egypt; you drove out other nations and planted it in their land.

Listen while I sing you this song, a song of my friend and his vineyard: My friend had a vineyard on a very fertile hill.

He dug the soil and cleared it of stones; he planted the finest vines. He built a tower to guard them, dug a pit for treading the grapes. He waited for the grapes to ripen, but every grape was sour.

Your people will all do what is right, And will possess the land forever. I planted them, I made them, To reveal my greatness to all.

To give to those who mourn in Zion Joy and gladness instead of grief, A song of praise instead of sorrow. They will be like trees That the LORD himself has planted. They will all do what is right, And God will be praised for what he has done.

"Listen to another parable," Jesus said. "There was once a landowner who planted a vineyard, put a fence around it, dug a hole for the wine press, and built a watchtower. Then he rented the vineyard to tenants and left home on a trip.

Then Jesus spoke to them in parables: "Once there was a man who planted a vineyard, put a fence around it, dug a hole for the wine press, and built a watchtower. Then he rented the vineyard to tenants and left home on a trip.

Then Jesus told the people this parable: "There was once a man who planted a vineyard, rented it out to tenants, and then left home for a long time.

"I am the real vine, and my Father is the gardener.

I have chosen him in order that he may command his sons and his descendants to obey me and to do what is right and just. If they do, I will do everything for him that I have promised."

Live here, and I will be with you and bless you. I am going to give all this territory to you and to your descendants. I will keep the promise I made to your father Abraham.

I will bless you, because Abraham obeyed me and kept all my laws and commands."

The man said, "Your name will no longer be Jacob. You have struggled with God and with men, and you have won; so your name will be Israel."

Because he loved your ancestors, he chose you, and by his great power he himself brought you out of Egypt.

As long as Joshua lived, the people of Israel served the LORD, and after his death they continued to do so as long as those leaders were alive who had seen for themselves everything that the LORD had done for Israel.

(SEE 105:5)

"But you, Israel my servant, you are the people that I have chosen, the descendants of Abraham, my friend.

Their enemies, corrupt as Sodom and Gomorrah, are like vines that bear bitter and poisonous grapes,

The city that once was faithful is behaving like a whore! At one time it was filled with righteous people, but now only murderers remain.

Is there anything I failed to do for it? Then why did it produce sour grapes and not the good grapes I expected?

Our glittering gold has grown dull; the stones of the Temple lie scattered in the streets.