Grapes

Your wife will bear children as a vine bears grapes, your household lush as a vineyard, The children around your table as fresh and promising as young olive shoots. Stand in awe of God's Yes. Oh, how he blesses the one who fears God!

“But I will not destroy them all,” says the Lord.“For just as good grapes are found among a cluster of bad ones(and someone will say, ‘Don’t throw them all away—some of those grapes are good!’),so I will not destroy all Israel. For I still have true servants there.

they began to return to Judah from the places to which they had fled. They stopped at Mizpah to meet with Gedaliah and then went into the Judean countryside to gather a great harvest of grapes and other crops.

"But things have changed. I'm taking the side of my core of surviving people: Sowing and harvesting will resume, Vines will grow grapes, Gardens will flourish, Dew and rain will make everything green.

“The days are coming,” declares the LORD, “when the reaper will be overtaken by the plowman and the planter by the one treading grapes. New wine will drip from the mountains and flow from all the hills.

"Live in me. Make your home in me just as I do in you. In the same way that a branch can't bear grapes by itself but only by being joined to the vine, you can't bear fruit unless you are joined with me.

Psalm 128:3 Isaiah 65:8 Jeremiah 40:12 Zechariah 8:11 Amos 9:13 John 15:4

Harvest earth's vineyard. The grapes are bursting with ripeness." Revelation 14:17

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