Hosea 10:1 References
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Israel is a luxuriant avine; He produces fruit for himself. The more his fruit, The more altars he bmade; The richer his land, The better he made the sacred cpillars.
a Isaiah 5:1-7, Ezekiel 15:1-6
Isaiah 5
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Let me sing now for my well-beloved A song of my beloved concerning His vineyard. My well-beloved had a avineyard on a fertile hill.
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He dug it all around, removed its stones, And planted it with the achoicest vine. And He built a tower in the middle of it And also hewed out a wine vat in it; Then He bexpected it to produce good grapes, But it produced only worthless ones.
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"aWhat more was there to do for My vineyard that I have not done in it? Why, when I expected it to produce good grapes did it produce worthless ones?
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"So now let Me tell you what I am going to do to My vineyard: I will aremove its hedge and it will be consumed; I will bbreak down its wall and it will become ctrampled ground.
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"I will alay it waste; It will not be pruned or hoed, But briars and thorns will come up. I will also charge the clouds to brain no rain on it."
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For the avineyard of the Lord of hosts is the house of Israel And the men of Judah His delightful plant. Thus He looked for justice, but behold, bbloodshed; For righteousness, but behold, a cry of distress.
Ezekiel 15
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Then the word of the Lord came to me, saying,
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"Son of man, how is the wood of the avine better than any wood of a branch which is among the trees of the forest?
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"Can wood be taken from it to make anything, or can men take a peg from it on which to hang any vessel?
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"If it has been put into the afire for fuel, and the fire has consumed both of its ends and its middle part has been charred, is it then useful for anything?
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"Behold, while it is intact, it is not made into anything. How much less, when the fire has consumed it and it is charred, can it still be made into anything!
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"Therefore, thus says the Lord GOD, 'As the wood of the vine among the trees of the forest, which I have given to the fire for fuel, so have I given up the inhabitants of Jerusalem;