And he answered him,‘ Sir, let it alone this year also, until I dig around it and put on manure.

管园的说：‘主啊，今年且留着，等我周围掘开土，加上粪；

园丁回答：‘主啊，今年且留着，等我在树周围掘开土，加上肥料，

园丁回答：‘主啊，今年且留着，等我在树周围掘开土，加上肥料，

“园丁请求说，‘主人，再留它一年吧！让我在它四周松土、施肥，

管园的说：‘主人，今年且留着它，等我把周围的泥土挖松，加上肥料；

“但是园丁回答，对他说：‘主人，今年再留着它吧。等我在它周围挖掘，施些粪肥，

管園的說：『主啊，今年且留着，等我周圍掘開土，加上糞；

園丁回答：『主啊，今年且留着，等我在樹周圍掘開土，加上肥料，

園丁回答：『主啊，今年且留着，等我在樹周圍掘開土，加上肥料，

「園丁請求說，『主人，再留它一年吧！讓我在它四周鬆土、施肥，

管園的說：‘主人，今年且留著它，等我把周圍的泥土挖鬆，加上肥料；

園工回答他說：「主人啊，這一年也容它吧；等我在它周圍挖掘，撒上糞。

「但是園丁回答，對他說：『主人，今年再留著它吧。等我在它周圍挖掘，施些糞肥，

對曰、主、今歲姑容之、待我周掘壅糞、

對曰、主、今歲且容之、待我周掘壅糞、

對曰、主、今歲姑容之、待我周掘壅糞、

園丁對曰：「主、今春姑留、待我疏其周圍之土、而糞之、

“‘ Sir,’ the man replied,‘ leave it alone for one more year, and I’ll dig around it and fertilize it.

“‘ Sir,’ the man replied,‘ leave it alone for one more year. I’ll dig around it and feed it.

“ The gardener answered,‘ Sir, give it one more chance. Leave it another year, and I’ll give it special attention and plenty of fertilizer.

“ But he replied to him,‘ Sir, leave it this year also, until I dig around it and fertilize it.

But he answered and said to him,‘ Sir, leave it alone for this year too, until I dig around it and put in fertilizer;

But he answered and said to him,‘ Sir, let it alone this year also, until I dig around it and fertilize it.

And he answering saith unto him, Lord, let it alone this year also, till I shall dig about it, and dung it:

“ But he replied to him,‘ Sir, leave it this year also, until I dig around it and fertilize it.

And he answering said unto him, Lord, let it alone this year also, till I shall dig about it, and dung[ it]:

But the worker answered him,‘ Sir, leave it alone this year too, until I dig around it and put fertilizer on it.

He answered,‘ Lord, leave it alone this year also, until I dig around it and fertilize it.

Between the vestibule and the altar let the priests, the ministers of the Lord, weep and say,“ Spare your people, O Lord, and make not your heritage a reproach, a byword among the nations. Why should they say among the peoples,‘ Where is their God?’”

The Lord is not slow to fulfill his promise as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should reach repentance.

Brothers, my heart’s desire and prayer to God for them is that they may be saved.

in order somehow to make my fellow Jews jealous, and thus save some of them.

Then the Lord said to me,“ Though Moses and Samuel stood before me, yet my heart would not turn toward this people. Send them out of my sight, and let them go!

Therefore he said he would destroy them— had not Moses, his chosen one, stood in the breach before him, to turn away his wrath from destroying them.

The next day Moses said to the people,“ You have sinned a great sin. And now I will go up to the Lord; perhaps I can make atonement for your sin.”So Moses returned to the Lord and said,“ Alas, this people has sinned a great sin. They have made for themselves gods of gold.But now, if you will forgive their sin— but if not, please blot me out of your book that you have written.”

And he said,“ If now I have found favor in your sight, O Lord, please let the Lord go in the midst of us, for it is a stiff-necked people, and pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us for your inheritance.”

But Moses implored the Lord his God and said,“ O Lord, why does your wrath burn hot against your people, whom you have brought out of the land of Egypt with great power and with a mighty hand?Why should the Egyptians say,‘ With evil intent did he bring them out, to kill them in the mountains and to consume them from the face of the earth’? Turn from your burning anger and relent from this disaster against your people.Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, your servants, to whom you swore by your own self, and said to them,‘ I will multiply your offspring as the stars of heaven, and all this land that I have promised I will give to your offspring, and they shall inherit it forever.’”

And Joshua said,“ Alas, O Lord God, why have you brought this people over the Jordan at all, to give us into the hands of the Amorites, to destroy us? Would that we had been content to dwell beyond the Jordan!O Lord, what can I say, when Israel has turned their backs before their enemies!For the Canaanites and all the inhabitants of the land will hear of it and will surround us and cut off our name from the earth. And what will you do for your great name?”

“ Though our iniquities testify against us, act, O Lord, for your name’s sake; for our backslidings are many; we have sinned against you.O you hope of Israel, its savior in time of trouble, why should you be like a stranger in the land, like a traveler who turns aside to tarry for a night?Why should you be like a man confused, like a mighty warrior who cannot save? Yet you, O Lord, are in the midst of us, and we are called by your name; do not leave us.”

And the Lord said to Moses,“ How long will this people despise me? And how long will they not believe in me, in spite of all the signs that I have done among them?I will strike them with the pestilence and disinherit them, and I will make of you a nation greater and mightier than they.”But Moses said to the Lord,“ Then the Egyptians will hear of it, for you brought up this people in your might from among them,and they will tell the inhabitants of this land. They have heard that you, O Lord, are in the midst of this people. For you, O Lord, are seen face to face, and your cloud stands over them and you go before them, in a pillar of cloud by day and in a pillar of fire by night.Now if you kill this people as one man, then the nations who have heard your fame will say,‘ It is because the Lord was not able to bring this people into the land that he swore to give to them that he has killed them in the wilderness.’And now, please let the power of the Lord be great as you have promised, saying,‘ The Lord is slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love, forgiving iniquity and transgression, but he will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, to the third and the fourth generation.’Please pardon the iniquity of this people, according to the greatness of your steadfast love, just as you have forgiven this people, from Egypt until now.”Then the Lord said,“ I have pardoned, according to your word.

Then I said:“ Ah, Lord God, behold, the prophets say to them,‘ You shall not see the sword, nor shall you have famine, but I will give you assured peace in this place.’”And the Lord said to me:“ The prophets are prophesying lies in my name. I did not send them, nor did I command them or speak to them. They are prophesying to you a lying vision, worthless divination, and the deceit of their own minds.Therefore thus says the Lord concerning the prophets who prophesy in my name although I did not send them, and who say,‘ Sword and famine shall not come upon this land’: By sword and famine those prophets shall be consumed.And the people to whom they prophesy shall be cast out in the streets of Jerusalem, victims of famine and sword, with none to bury them— them, their wives, their sons, and their daughters. For I will pour out their evil upon them.“ You shall say to them this word:‘ Let my eyes run down with tears night and day, and let them not cease, for the virgin daughter of my people is shattered with a great wound, with a very grievous blow.If I go out into the field, behold, those pierced by the sword! And if I enter the city, behold, the diseases of famine! For both prophet and priest ply their trade through the land and have no knowledge.’”

Should good be repaid with evil? Yet they have dug a pit for my life. Remember how I stood before you to speak good for them, to turn away your wrath from them.