Bible Verses About Parables

And as the king passed by, he cried unto the king; and he said, Thy servant went out into the midst of the battle; and, behold, a man turned aside, and brought a man unto me, and said, Keep this man: if by any means he be missing, then shall thy life be for his life, or else thou shalt pay a talent of silver.

And as thy servant was busy here and there, he was gone. And the king of Israel said unto him, So shall thy judgment be; thyself hast decided it.

And he hasted, and took the headband away from his eyes; and the king of Israel discerned him that he was of the prophets.

And he said unto him, Thus saith Jehovah, Because thou hast let go out of thy hand the man whom I had devoted to destruction, therefore thy life shall go for his life, and thy people for his people.

And Jehoash the king of Israel sent to Amaziah king of Judah, saying, The thistle that was in Lebanon sent to the cedar that was in Lebanon, saying, Give thy daughter to my son to wife: and there passed by a wild beast that was in Lebanon, and trod down the thistle.

Thou broughtest a vine out of Egypt: Thou didst drive out the nations, and plantedst it.

Thou preparedst room before it, And it took deep root, and filled the land.

The mountains were covered with the shadow of it, And the boughs thereof were like cedars of God.

It sent out its branches unto the sea, And its shoots unto the River.

Why hast thou broken down its walls, So that all they that pass by the way do pluck it?

The boar out of the wood doth ravage it, And the wild beasts of the field feed on it.

Turn again, we beseech thee, O God of hosts: Look down from heaven, and behold, and visit this vine,

And the stock which thy right hand planted, And the branch that thou madest strong for thyself.

It is burned with fire, it is cut down: They perish at the rebuke of thy countenance.

Let me sing for my wellbeloved a song of my beloved touching his vineyard. My wellbeloved had a vineyard in a very fruitful hill:

and he digged it, and gathered out the stones thereof, and planted it with the choicest vine, and built a tower in the midst of it, and also hewed out a winepress therein: and he looked that it should bring forth grapes, and it brought forth wild grapes.

And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem and men of Judah, judge, I pray you, betwixt me and my vineyard.

What could have been done more to my vineyard, that I have not done in it? wherefore, when I looked that it should bring forth grapes, brought it forth wild grapes?

And now I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard: I will take away the hedge thereof, and it shall be eaten up; I will break down the wall thereof, and it shall be trodden down:

and I will lay it waste; it shall not be pruned nor hoed; but there shall come up briers and thorns: I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it.

For the vineyard of Jehovah of hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasant plant: and he looked for justice, but, behold, oppression; for righteousness, but, behold, a cry.

In that day: A vineyard of wine, sing ye unto it.

I Jehovah am its keeper; I will water it every moment: lest any hurt it, I will keep it night and day.

Give ye ear, and hear my voice; hearken, and hear my speech.

Doth he that ploweth to sow plow continually? doth he continually open and harrow his ground?