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And Joseph also went up from Galilee, out of the city of Nazareth, into Judaea, unto the city of David, which is called Bethlehem; (because he was of the house and lineage of David:)
Then began he to speak to the people this parable; A certain man planted a vineyard, and let it forth to husbandmen, and went into a far country for a long time.
And, behold, certain of the scribes said within themselves, This man blasphemeth.
And he took up his parable, and said, Balaam the son of Beor hath said, and the man whose eyes are open hath said:
Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful.
And to whom sware he that they should not enter into his rest, but to them that believed not?
That he may set him with princes, even with the princes of his people.
The field which Abraham purchased of the sons of Heth: there was Abraham buried, and Sarah his wife.
And Dinah the daughter of Leah, which she bare unto Jacob, went out to see the daughters of the land.
The wind goeth toward the south, and turneth about unto the north; it whirleth about continually, and the wind returneth again according to his circuits.
Wherefore be ye not unwise, but understanding what the will of the Lord is.
We have been with child, we have been in pain, we have as it were brought forth wind; we have not wrought any deliverance in the earth; neither have the inhabitants of the world fallen.
Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall:
Egypt, and Judah, and Edom, and the children of Ammon, and Moab, and all that are in the utmost corners, that dwell in the wilderness: for all these nations are uncircumcised, and all the house of Israel are uncircumcised in the heart.
Because Syria, Ephraim, and the son of Remaliah, have taken evil counsel against thee, saying,
But I say, Have they not heard? Yes verily, their sound went into all the earth, and their words unto the ends of the world.
The land of Zabulon, and the land of Nephthalim, by the way of the sea, beyond Jordan, Galilee of the Gentiles;
Then called he Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces which were with him, and all the people from the least even to the greatest,
And all the people that were left of the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites, which were not of the children of Israel,
And Abraham took sheep and oxen, and gave them unto Abimelech; and both of them made a covenant.
For I am poor and needy, and my heart is wounded within me.
And the Philistines followed hard upon Saul and upon his sons; and the Philistines slew Jonathan, and Abinadab, and Malchi-shua, Saul's sons.
Behold, I waited for your words; I gave ear to your reasons, whilst ye searched out what to say.
For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, and that spreadeth out her roots by the river, and shall not see when heat cometh, but her leaf shall be green; and shall not be careful in the year of drought, neither shall cease from yielding fruit.
