Isaiah 5:1-7

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The Vineyard of the Lord Destroyed

5 Let me sing for my beloved
    my love song concerning his vineyard:
My beloved had ^(A)a vineyard
    on a very fertile hill.
²He dug it and cleared it of stones,
    and planted it with ^(B)choice vines;
he built a watchtower in the midst of it,
    and hewed out a wine vat in it;
and ^(C)he looked for it to yield grapes,
    but it yielded wild grapes.

³And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem
    and men of Judah,
judge between me and my vineyard.
⁴^(D)What more was there to do for my vineyard,
    that I have not done in it?
^(E)When I looked for it to yield grapes,
    why did it yield wild grapes?

⁵And now I will tell you
    what I will do to my vineyard.
I will remove ^(F)its hedge,
    and it shall be devoured;^[a]
^(G)I will break down its wall,
    and it shall be trampled down.
⁶I will make it a waste;
    it shall not be pruned or hoed,
    and ^(H)briers and thorns shall grow up;
^(I)I will also command the clouds
    that they rain no rain upon it.

⁷^(J)For the vineyard of the Lord of hosts
    is the house of Israel,
and the men of Judah
    are his pleasant planting;
and he looked for justice,
    but behold, bloodshed;^[b]
for righteousness,
    but behold, an outcry!^[c]

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Footnotes

Isaiah 5:5 Or grazed over; compare Exodus 22:5
Isaiah 5:7 The Hebrew words for justice and bloodshed sound alike
Isaiah 5:7 The Hebrew words for righteous and outcry sound alike

Psalm 80

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Restore Us, O God

To the choirmaster: according to ^(A)Lilies. A Testimony. Of ^(B)Asaph, a Psalm.

80 Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel,
    you who lead ^(C)Joseph like ^(D)a flock.
You who are ^(E)enthroned upon the cherubim, ^(F)shine forth.
²    Before ^(G)Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh,
^(H)stir up your might
    and ^(I)come to save us!

³^(J)Restore us,^[a] O God;
^(K)let your face shine, that we may be saved!

⁴O ^(L)Lord God of hosts,
    ^(M)how long will you be angry with your people's prayers?
⁵You have fed them with ^(N)the bread of tears
    and given them tears to drink in full measure.
⁶^(O)You make us an object of contention for our ^(P)neighbors,
    and our enemies laugh among themselves.

⁷^(Q)Restore us, O God of hosts;
let your face shine, that we may be saved!

⁸You brought ^(R)a vine out of Egypt;
    you ^(S)drove out the nations and planted it.
⁹You ^(T)cleared the ground for it;
    it took deep root and filled the land.
¹⁰The mountains were covered with its shade,
    the mighty cedars with its branches.
¹¹It sent out its branches to ^(U)the sea
    and its shoots to ^(V)the River.^[b]
¹²Why then have you ^(W)broken down its walls,
    so that all who pass along the way pluck its fruit?
¹³^(X)The boar from the forest ravages it,
    and all that move in the field feed on it.

¹⁴Turn again, O God of hosts!
    ^(Y)Look down from heaven, and see;
have regard for this vine,
¹⁵    the stock that your right hand planted,
    and for the son whom you made strong for yourself.
¹⁶They have ^(Z)burned it with fire; they have ^(AA)cut it down;
    may they perish at ^(AB)the rebuke of your face!
¹⁷But ^(AC)let your hand be on the man of your right hand,
    the son of man whom you have made strong for yourself!
¹⁸Then we shall not turn back from you;
    ^(AD)give us life, and we will call upon your name!

¹⁹^(AE)Restore us, O Lord God of hosts!
Let your face shine, that we may be saved!

Footnotes

Psalm 80:3 Or Turn us again; also verses 7, 19
Psalm 80:11 That is, the Euphrates

Philippians 3:14-21

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¹⁴I press on toward the goal for ^(A)the prize of the upward ^(B)call of God in Christ Jesus. ¹⁵Let those of us who are ^(C)mature think this way, and if in anything ^(D)you think otherwise, ^(E)God will reveal that also to you. ¹⁶Only ^(F)let us hold true to what we have attained.

¹⁷Brothers, ^(G)join in imitating me, and keep your eyes on those who walk ^(H)according to the example you have in us. ¹⁸For ^(I)many, of whom I have often told you and now tell you ^(J)even with tears, walk as enemies of the cross of Christ. ¹⁹^(K)Their end is destruction, ^(L)their god is their belly, and ^(M)they glory in their shame, with ^(N)minds set on earthly things. ²⁰But ^(O)our citizenship is in heaven, and ^(P)from it we ^(Q)await a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, ²¹who will transform ^(R)our lowly body ^(S)to be like his glorious body, ^(T)by the power that enables him even ^(U)to subject all things to himself.

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Matthew 21:33-44

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The Parable of the Tenants

³³^(A)“Hear another parable. There was a master of a house who planted ^(B)a vineyard ^(C)and put a fence around it and dug a winepress in it and built a tower and ^(D)leased it to tenants, and ^(E)went into another country. ³⁴When the season for fruit drew near, he sent his servants^[a] to the tenants ^(F)to get his fruit. ³⁵^(G)And the tenants took his servants and beat one, killed another, and ^(H)stoned another. ³⁶^(I)Again he sent other servants, more than the first. And they did the same to them. ³⁷Finally he sent his son to them, saying, ‘They will respect my son.’ ³⁸But when the tenants saw the son, they said to themselves, ^(J)‘This is the heir. Come, ^(K)let us kill him and have his inheritance.’ ³⁹And they took him and ^(L)threw him out of the vineyard and killed him. ⁴⁰^(M)When therefore the owner of the vineyard comes, what will he do to those tenants?” ⁴¹They said to him, ^(N)“He will put those wretches to a miserable death and ^(O)let out the vineyard to other tenants who will give him the fruits in their seasons.”

⁴²Jesus said to them, ^(P)“Have you never read in the Scriptures:

^(Q)“‘The stone that the builders rejected
has become the cornerstone;^[b]
this was the Lord's doing,
and it is marvelous in our eyes’?

⁴³Therefore I tell you, the kingdom of God ^(R)will be taken away from you and given to a people ^(S)producing its fruits. ⁴⁴And ^(T)the one who falls on this stone will be broken to pieces; and ^(U)when it falls on anyone, it will crush him.”^[c]