Jeremiah 12:10 Cross References - MSTC

¹⁰ Divers herdsmen have broken down my vineyard, and trodden upon my portion. Of my pleasant portion, they have made a wilderness and desert.

⁸ Thou hast brought a vine out of Egypt; thou hast cast out the heathen, and planted it. ⁹ Thou madest room for it, and caused it to take root, so that it filled the land. ¹⁰ The hills were covered with the shadow of it, and the boughs thereof were like the goodly cedar-trees. ¹¹ She stretched out her branches unto the sea, and her boughs unto the river. ¹² Why hast thou then broken down her hedge, that all they which go by, pluck off her grapes? ¹³ The wild boar out of the wood hath rooted it up, and the beasts of the field have devoured it. ¹⁴ Turn thee again, thou God of hosts, look down from heaven, behold and visit this vine, ¹⁵ and the place of the vineyard that thy righthand hath planted, and the son whom thou madest so strong for thyself. ¹⁶ It is burnt with fire, and cut down; O let them perish at the rebuke of thy wrath.

¹ Now will I sing my beloved friend a song of his vineyard. My beloved friend hath a vineyard in a very fruitful plenteous ground. ² This he hedged, this he walled round about, and planted it with goodly grapes. In the midst of it builded he a tower, and made a wine press therein. And afterward when he looked that it should bring him grapes, it brought forth thorns. ³ I show you now my cause, O ye Citizens of Jerusalem and whole Judah: Judge, I pray you, betwixt me and my vineyard. ⁴ What more could have been done for it, that I have not done? Wherefore than hath it given thorns, where I looked to have had grapes of it? ⁵ Well, now I shall tell you how I will do with my vineyard: I will take the hedge from it, that it may perish, and break down the wall, that it may be trodden under foot. ⁶ I will lay it waste, that it shall neither be twisted nor cut, but bear thorns and briers. I will also forbid the clouds, that they shall not rain upon it. ⁷ As for the vineyard of the LORD of Hosts, it is the house of Israel, and whole Judah his fair planting. Of these he looked for equity, but see there is wrong; for righteousness, lo, it is but misery.

²⁸ Therefore I either suspended, or slew the chiefest princes: I did curse Jacob, and gave Israel into reproof."

¹⁸ Thy people hath had but little of thy Sanctuary in possession, for our enemies have taken it in:

¹⁹ "'I have showed also, how I took thee up being but a child, and gave thee a pleasant land for thine heritage; yea, and a goodly Host of the Heathen: and how I commanded thee, that thou shouldest call me Father only, and not to shrink from me.

³ Their tents shall they pitch round about her, and every one shall feed his part with his hand.

¹ Woe be unto the shepherds, that destroy and scatter my flock," sayeth the LORD.

⁹ Lo, I will send out, and call for all the people that dwell in the North, sayeth the LORD, and will prepare Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon my servant, and will bring them upon this land, and upon all that dwell therein, and upon all the people that are about them, and will utterly root them out. I will make of them a wilderness, a mockage, and a continual desert.

³ Then all the princes of the king of Babylon, came in, and sat them down under the port: Nergalsharezer, Samgarnebo, Sarsechim the Rabsaris, Nergalsharezer the Rabmag, with all the other princes of the king of Babylon.

¹⁰ {Yod} The enemy hath put his hand to all the precious things that she had, yea even before her eyes came the Heathen in and out of the Sanctuary: whom thou, nevertheless, hast forbidden to come within thy congregation. ¹¹ {Khaf} All her people seek their bread with heaviness, and look: what precious things every man hath, that giveth he for meat to save his life. Consider, O LORD, and see, how vile I am become.

⁹ Then began he to put forth to the people this similitude, "A certain man planted a vineyard, and let it forth to farmers, and went himself into a strange country for a great season. ¹⁰ And when the time was come, he sent a servant to his tenants, that they should give him of the fruits of the vineyard. And the tenants did beat him: and sent him away empty. ¹¹ And again he ceased not thereby but sent yet another servant. And they did beat him, and foul entreated him also, and sent him away empty. ¹² Moreover, he sent the third, too: And him they wounded, and cast him out. ¹³ Then said the Lord of the vineyard, 'What shall I do? I will send my dear son, him peradventure they will reverence, when they see him.' ¹⁴ But when the farmers saw him, they thought in themselves, saying, 'This is the heir. Come, let us kill him, that the inheritance may be ours.' ¹⁵ And they cast him out of the vineyard, and killed him. Now what shall the Lord of the vineyard do unto them? ¹⁶ He will come and destroy those farmers, and will let out his vineyard to others." When they heard that, they said, "God forbid."

¹⁴ Let it stick therefore fast in your hearts, not once to study before, what ye shall answer for yourselves:

² but the court which is without the temple cast out, and mete it not: for it is given unto the gentiles, and the holy city shall they tread under foot forty two months.