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And now I mean to revoke the gift; no harvest for her, no vintage; I will give wool and flax a holiday, that once laboured to cover her shame; (Hosea 2, 9)
It is but love’s stratagem, thus to lead her out into the wilderness; once there, it shall be all words of comfort. (Hosea 2, 14)
Not for such reapers harvest and vintage; the wanton must go without her wine; (Hosea 9, 2)
When I kept tryst with Israel long ago, rare the encounter, as of grapes out in the desert, of spring figs a-ripening high up on the tree. And all at once to Beelphegor they betook themselves, sold honour for shame, caught foul contagion from the things they loved! (Hosea 9, 10)
None that dwells under the protection of that name but shall come back to me; corn shall be theirs in plenty, and they will grow like one of their own vineyards, famed as the vintage of Lebanon itself. (Hosea 14, 8)
Alas, for husbandman’s labour lost, for vintage-song turned to lament! Alas for harvest perished, (Joel 1, 11)
A word from the Lord, and all shall be a gaping ruin, palace and cottage both. (Amos 6, 12)
A time is coming, the Lord says, when ploughman shall tread on the heels of reaper, sower’s task begin ere vintager’s is ended; never a mountain-side but shall run with sweet wine, never a hill but its rugged nature shall be tamed.✻ (Amos 9, 13)
Strange, the silence that has fallen upon Edom! Thieves were they, midnight robbers, that had assailed thee, at least they had been content to carry off what they had need of; some gleanings at least those vintagers would have left thee! (Obadiah 1, 5)
Your tears for Sion! Not more pitiful work is gleaning when the vintage is done; never a cluster to eat; for the ripe figs belly craves in vain. (Micah 7, 1)
Whereas you say, If a man says to his father or mother, The offering which I make to God is all the advantage you will have from me,✻ (Matthew 15, 5)
When vintage-time drew near, he sent his own servants on an errand to the vine-dressers, to claim its revenues. (Matthew 21, 34)
