Bible Verses About Parables: Of the vine

The word of ADONAI came to me:

"Human being, why should wood from a grapevine be better than some other kind of wood, than some branch that one might find among the trees of the forest?

Its wood can't be used to make anything, not even a pin on which to hang a pot.

So now it is thrown in the fire as fuel, the fire consumes both ends of it, and the middle of it is singed is it useful now for making something?

When it was whole, it was good for nothing; so how much less, when the fire has consumed it, and it is singed, will it be useful for making something!

"So Adonai ELOHIM says this: 'Like wood from the vine among the trees of the forest, which I consign to the fire as fuel, so I give those living in Yerushalayim.

I will set my face against them they may have escaped one fire, but the fire will consume them yet. When I set my face against them, you will know that I am ADONAI.

I will make the land desolate because they have dealt so treacherously,' says Adonai ELOHIM."

He also took some of the seed in the land and planted it in fertile soil, placing it where there was abundant water, as one would a willow.

It grew to become a fruitful vine sprawling over the ground; its branches turned toward him, and its roots were under him - thus it became a vine, sprouting branches and putting forth shoots.

"'There was another big eagle with great wings and many feathers; and the vine bent its roots toward him and put forth its branches toward him, so that he might water it more than in the bed where it was planted.

It had been planted in good soil, near plenty of water, so that it would produce branches, bear fruit and become a noble vine.'

"Say that Adonai ELOHIM asks: 'Will it succeed? Won't he pull it up by the roots and cut off its fruit; so that it dries up; and all its sprouting leaves wither? There will be no great power and few people there when it is plucked up by the roots.

Will it thrive just because it was planted? Won't it wither altogether when the east wind strikes it? Yes, it will wither right there in the beds where it was growing.'"

"'Your mother was like a strong grapevine planted by the water. It was fruitful and luxuriant because of the abundant water.

It had strong branches to be used as scepters by rulers; besides having thick foliage, it grew taller and taller, until its height was noticed, with its mass of branches.

But it was torn up in fury and flung on the ground. An east wind withered her fruit, her strong branches were broken off; they dried up; and fire consumed the vine.

It has been transplanted to the desert, to a dry, thirsty land.

Fire has gone out from its own branches, burning up its fruit, so that now it has no strong branch to be a ruler's scepter.'" This lamentation became very well known.