"Therefore hear the parable of the sower:

And Micaiah said, Not so, [it is] not I: hear the word of the Lord: I saw the God of Israel sitting on His throne, and all the host of heaven stood about Him on His right hand and on His left.

Hear the word of the Lord, you rulers of Sodom; attend to the law of God, you people of Gomorrah.

And you shall say to them, Hear the word of the Lord, you kings of Judah, and men of Judah, and the dwellers in Jerusalem, and they that enter in by these gates. Thus says the Lord God of Israel: Behold, I [will] bring such a catastrophe upon this place, that the ears of everyone that hears it shall tingle.

Hear the word of the Lord, you children of Israel: for the Lord [has] a controversy with the inhabitants of the land, because there is no truth, nor mercy, nor knowledge of God in the land.

You have transplanted a vine out of Egypt; You have cast out the heathen, and planted it.

Its shadow covered the mountains, and its shoots [equaled] the choice cedars.

Why have You broken down its hedge, while all that pass by the way pluck it?

O God of hosts, turn, we pray; look on [us] from heaven, and behold and visit this vine;

[It is] burned with fire and dug up; they shall perish at the rebuke of Your presence.

Solomon had a vineyard in Baal Hamon; he leased his vineyard to keepers; everyone was to bring for its fruit a thousand pieces of silver.

My vineyard, even mine, is before me; Solomon [shall have] a thousand, and they that keep its fruit two hundred.

Now I will sing to [my] Beloved a song of my Beloved concerning His vineyard. [My] Beloved had a vineyard on a high hill in a fertile place.

And now, you inhabitants of Jerusalem, and [every] man of Judah, judge between Me and My vineyard.

Yet I planted you a fruitful vine, entirely of the right sort- how are you a strange vine turned to bitterness!

Then He began to speak to them with parables: "A man planted a vineyard and set a fence around it, dug a wine vat and built a tower. And he leased it to farmers, and went on a journey.

Then He began to tell the people this parable: "A man planted a vineyard, leased it to farmers, and went on a journey for a long time.

And again he sent another servant; and they flogged him also, treated him shamefully, and sent [him] away empty-handed.

Then the owner of the vineyard said, 'What shall I do? I will send my beloved son. Perhaps when they see him they will respect [him].'

And casting him out of the vineyard, they killed him. What then will the owner of the vineyard do to them?

Then He looked at them and said, "What then is this which is written: 'The stone which the builders rejected Has become the chief cornerstone'?

"I am the true vine, and My Father is the vinedresser.

saying: "The scribes and the Pharisees sit on Moses' seat.

So I took of you wise and understanding and prudent men, and I set them to rule over you as rulers of thousands, and rulers of hundreds, and rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens, and officers to your judges.

You shall not have respect to persons in judgment, you shall judge small and great equally; you shall not shrink from before the person of a man, for the judgment is God's; and whatsoever matter shall be too hard for you, you shall bring it to me, and I will hear it.

You shall make for yourself judges and officers in your cities, which the Lord your God gives you in [your] tribes, and they shall judge the people with righteous judgment;

then you shall arise and go up to the place which the Lord your God shall choose, and you shall come to the priests the Levites, and to the judge who shall be in those days, and they shall search out [the matter] and report the judgment to you.

You shall do according to the law and to the judgment which they shall declare to you: you shall not swerve to the right hand or to the left from any sentence which they shall report to you.

And to Levi he said, [Let] Levi give his manifestations and his truth to the holy One, whom they tempted in the temptation; they reviled Him at the Water of Strife.

They shall declare Your ordinances to Jacob, and Your law to Israel; they shall place incense in [the time of] Your wrath continually upon Your altar.

And you shall know that I have sent this commandment to you, that My covenant might be with the sons of Levi, says the Lord Almighty.

The law of truth was in his mouth, and iniquity was not found in his lips: he walked before Me directing [his way] in peace, and he turned many from unrighteousness.

But you have turned aside from the way, and caused many to fail in [following] the law: you have corrupted the covenant of Levi, says the Lord Almighty.

"For [it is] as [if] a man leaving on a journey, who called his own servants and handed over his possessions to them.

And to the one he gave five talents, and to another two, and to another one, to each according to his own ability; and immediately he went on a journey.

It is like a man going away on a journey, having left his house and having given authority to his servants, and to each his work, and commanded the doorkeeper that he should watch.

Therefore He said: "A certain nobleman went into a far country to receive for himself a kingdom and to return.