Bible Verses About Vine

So the trees said to the grapevine, 'You, come and rule over us!'

But the grapevine replied, 'Am I supposed to leave my wine, which gives cheer to God and humanity, just to go and hold sway over the trees?'

You brought a vine out of Egypt, you expelled the nations and planted it,

you cleared a space for it; then it took root firmly and filled the land.

The mountains were covered with its shade, the mighty cedars with its branches;

It put out branches as far as the sea and shoots to the [Euphrates] River.

Why did you break down [the vineyard's] wall, so that all passing by can pluck [its fruit]?

The boar from the forest tears it apart; wild creatures from the fields feed on it.

God of armies, please come back! Look from heaven, see, and tend this vine!

I will let it go to waste: it will be neither pruned nor hoed, but overgrown with briars and thorns. I will also order the clouds not to let rain fall on it.

But I planted you as a choice vine of seed fully tested and true. How did you degenerate into a wild vine for me?

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.

“I am the real vine, and my Father is the gardener.

Every branch which is part of me but fails to bear fruit, he cuts off; and every branch that does bear fruit, he prunes, so that it may bear more fruit.

Right now, because of the word which I have spoken to you, you are pruned.

Stay united with me, as I will with you — for just as the branch can’t put forth fruit by itself apart from the vine, so you can’t bear fruit apart from me.