Bible Cross References
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Jeremiah 24:5-7
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"I, the LORD, the God of Israel, consider that the people who were taken away to Babylonia are like these good figs, and I will treat them with kindness.
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I will watch over them and bring them back to this land. I will build them up and not tear them down; I will plant them and not pull them up.
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I will give them the desire to know that I am the LORD. Then they will be my people, and I will be their God, because they will return to me with all their heart.
Hosea 9:10
The LORD says, "When I first found Israel, it was like finding grapes growing in the desert. When I first saw your ancestors, it was like seeing the first ripe figs of the season. But when they came to Mount Peor, they began to worship Baal and soon became as disgusting as the gods they loved.
Micah 7:1
It's hopeless! I am like a hungry person who finds no fruit left on the trees and no grapes on the vines. All the grapes and all the tasty figs have been picked.
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Jeremiah 24:8-10
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"As for King Zedekiah of Judah, the politicians around him, and the rest of the people of Jerusalem who have stayed in this land or moved to Egypt---I, the LORD, will treat them all like these figs that are too bad to be eaten.
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I will bring such a disaster on them that all the nations of the world will be terrified. People will make fun of them, make jokes about them, ridicule them, and use their name as a curse everywhere I scatter them.
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I will bring war, starvation, and disease on them until there is not one of them left in the land that I gave to them and their ancestors."
Isaiah 5:4
Is there anything I failed to do for it? Then why did it produce sour grapes and not the good grapes I expected?
Isaiah 5:7
Israel is the vineyard of the LORD Almighty; the people of Judah are the vines he planted. He expected them to do what was good, but instead they committed murder. He expected them to do what was right, but their victims cried out for justice.
Ezekiel 15:2-5
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"Mortal man," he said, "how does a vine compare with a tree? What good is a branch of a grapevine compared with the trees of the forest?
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Can you use it to make anything? Can you even make a peg out of it to hang things on?
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It is only good for building a fire. And when the ends are burned up and the middle is charred, can you make anything out of it?
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It was useless even before it was burned. Now that the fire has burned it and charred it, it is even more useless."
Malachi 1:12-14
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But you dishonor me when you say that my altar is worthless and when you offer on it food that you despise.
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You say, 'How tired we are of all this!' and you turn up your nose at me. As your offering to me you bring a stolen animal or one that is lame or sick. Do you think I will accept that from you?
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A curse on the cheater who sacrifices a worthless animal to me, when he has in his flock a good animal that he promised to give me! For I am a great king, and people of all nations fear me."
Matthew 5:13
"You are like salt for the whole human race. But if salt loses its saltiness, there is no way to make it salty again. It has become worthless, so it is thrown out and people trample on it.