Ezekiel 15:2-8
vine <01612> [What.]
The vine is only noble and useful while producing fruit: for, when cut down, its wood is fit only for fuel. So Israel, having ceased to be fruitful, they are good for nothing, but, like a withered branch of a vine, to be burnt.
woody ..... trees ......... wood <06086> [among.]
thrown <05414> [it is cast.]
fire ...... fire <0784> [the fire.]
useful <06743> [Is it meet. Heb. Will it prosper.]
made ............... made <06213> [meet. Heb. made fit.]
I will set <05414> [I will set.]
from <03318> [they shall.]
know <03045> [and ye shall.]
make <05414> [I will.]
unfaithfully <04604 04603> [committed a trespass. Heb. trespassed a trespass.]
Ezekiel 17:6
sprouted <06779> [it grew.]
branches <01808> [whose.]
The Jewish state had then no height of dominion; and Zedekiah was wholly dependent on Nebuchadnezzar.
Isaiah 5:1-4
sing <07891> [Now.]
love ........... love <03039> [well-beloved.]
vineyard ...... vineyard <03754> [touching.]
fertile hill <07161 01121> [a very fruitful hill. Heb. the horn of the son of oil.]
built a hedge ...... stones <05823 05619> [fenced it. or, made a wall about it.]
planted <05193> [planted.]
vine <08321> [the choicest vine.]
{Sorek,} in Arabic, {sharik,} certainly denotes an excellent vine; but some with Bp. Lowth, retain it as a proper name. Sorek was a valley lying between Askelon and Gaza, so called from the excellence of its vines.
built <01129> [and built.]
constructed <02672> [made. Heb. hewed. a winepress.]
waited for <06960> [he looked.]
sour ones <0891> [wild grapes.]
decide <08199> [judge.]
Matthew 21:33-41
Listen <191> [Hear.]
In this parable, in its primary sense, the householder denotes the Supreme Being; the family, the Jewish nation; the vineyard, Jerusalem; the fence, the Divine protection; the wine-press, the law and sacrificial rites; the tower, the temple; and the husbandmen, the priests and doctors of the law.
<2258> [There.]
to tenant farmers <1092> [husbandmen.]
went on a journey <589> [went.]
he sent <649> [he sent.]
to collect <2983> [that.]
Finally <5305> [last.]
They will respect <1788> [They.]
This <3778> [This.]
seized <2983> [caught.]
threw <1544> [cast.]
killed <615> [slew.]
what <5101> [what.]
They said <3004> [they say.]
Our Lord here causes them to pass that sentence of destruction upon themselves which was literally executed about forty years afterwards by the Roman armies.
utterly <2560> [He will.]
he will lease <2532 1554> [and will let out.]
