Bible Verses About Parables: Of a vine of Egypt

Thou hast brought a vine out of Egypt: thou hast cast out the heathen, and planted it.

Thou madest roume for it, and didest cause it to take roote, and it filled the land.

The mountaines were couered with the shadowe of it, and the boughes thereof were like the goodly cedars.

Shee stretched out her branches vnto the Sea, and her boughes vnto the Riuer.

Why hast thou then broken downe her hedges, so that all they, which passe by the way, haue plucked her?

The wilde bore out of the wood hath destroyed it, and the wilde beastes of the fielde haue eaten it vp.

Returne we beseech thee, O God of hostes: looke downe from heauen and beholde and visite this vine,

And the vineyard, that thy right hand hath planted, and the young vine, which thou madest strong for thy selfe.

It is burnt with fire and cut downe: and they perish at the rebuke of thy countenance.