¹⁷ Nevertheless my eye spared them from destroying them, neither did I make an end of them in the wilderness.

³¹ For when ye offer your gifts, when ye make your sons to pass through the fire, ye pollute yourselves with all your idols, even to this day: and shall I be inquired of by you, O house of Israel? As I live, saith the Lord GOD, I will not be inquired of by you.

⁹ He began to tell the people this parable. "A man planted a vineyard, and rented it out to some farmers, and went into another country for a long time.