Lexicon :: Strong's H1612 - gep̄en

So the chief cupbearer told his dream to Joseph, and said to him, “In my dream there was a grapevine in front of me;

“Tying [fn]his foal to the [strong] vine

And his donkey’s colt to the choice vine,

He washes his clothing in wine [because the grapevine produces abundantly],

And his robes in the blood of grapes.

“For their vine is from the vine of Sodom,

And from the fields of Gomorrah;

Their grapes are grapes of poison,

Their clusters, bitter.

“He will fail to bring his grapes to maturity [leaving them to wither unnourished] on the vine,

And will cast off blossoms [and fail to bring forth fruit] like the olive tree.

He destroyed their vines with [great] hailstones

And their sycamore trees with frost.

You uprooted a vine (Israel) from Egypt;

You drove out the [Canaanite] nations and planted the vine [in Canaan].

Turn again [in favor to us], O God of hosts;

Look down from heaven and see, and take care of this vine,

He struck their vines also and their fig trees,

And shattered the [ice-laden] trees of their territory.

Your wife shall be like a fruitful vine

Within the innermost part of your house;

Your children will be like olive plants

Around your table.

‘The fig tree has budded and ripens her figs,

And the vines are in blossom and give forth their fragrance.

Arise, my love, my fair one,

And come away [to climb the rocky steps of the hillside].’”

“I went down to the orchard of nut trees

To see the flowers of the valley,

To see whether the grapevine had budded

And the pomegranates were in flower.

“I said, ‘I will climb the palm tree;

I will grasp its branches.

Let your breasts be like clusters of the grapevine,

And the fragrance of your breath like apples,

“Let us go out early to the vineyards;

Let us see whether the vine has budded

And its blossoms have opened,

And whether the pomegranates have flowered.

There I will give you my love.

And it will come to pass in that day, in every place where there used to be a thousand vines, worth a thousand silver shekels, there will be briars and thorns.

For the fields of Heshbon have languished and withered, and the vines of Sibmah as well;

The lords of the nations have trampled down [Moab’s] choice vine branches,

Which reached as far as Jazer and wandered into the wilderness;

Its tendrils stretched out, they passed over [the shores of] the [Dead] Sea.

The new wine mourns,

The vine decays;

All the merry-hearted sigh and groan.

Beat your breasts [in mourning] for the beautiful fields, for the fruitful vine,

All the host of heaven will be dissolved,

And the skies will be rolled up like a scroll;

All their hosts [the stars and the planets] will also wither away

As a leaf withers from the vine,

And as a fig withers from the fig tree.

“Yet I had planted you [O house of Israel as] a choice vine,

A completely faithful seed.

How then have you turned against Me

Into degenerate shoots of a foreign and wild vine [alien to Me]?

“They will consume your harvest and [eat up] your bread;

They will consume your sons and your daughters;

They will consume your flocks and your herds;

They will consume your vines and your fig trees.

With the sword they will break down and demolish your fortified cities in which you trust.

Thus says the LORD of hosts,

“They will thoroughly gather like [fruit on] a vine what is left of Israel;

Pass your hand [over the vine] again and again [Babylon, tool of destruction] like a grape gatherer,

Over the branches [stripping the tendrils off the vine].”

“I will gather and snatch them away [utterly consuming them],” says the LORD.

“There will be no grapes on the vine,

Nor figs on the fig tree,

And even the leaf will wither;

And the things that I have given them will pass away [by the hand of those whom I have appointed].”’”

“O vines of Sibmah, I will weep for you

More than the weeping of Jazer [over its ruins and wasted vineyards].

Your tendrils [of influence] stretched across the sea,

Reaching [even] to the sea of Jazer.

The destroyer has fallen

On your summer fruits and your [season’s] crop of grapes.

‘Your mother [Jerusalem] was like a vine in your [fn]vineyard,

Planted by the waters;

It was fruitful and full of branches

Because of abundant water.

“I will destroy her vines and her fig trees

Of which she has said, ‘These are my wages

Which my lovers have given me.’

And I will make them a forest,

And the animals of the open country will devour them.

Israel is a luxuriant and prolific vine;

He produces fruit for himself.

The more his fruit,

The more altars he made [to Baal];

The richer his land,

The better he made the [idolatrous] pillars.

Those who live in his shadow

Will again raise grain,

And they will blossom like the vine.

His renown will be like the wine of Lebanon.

It has made My vine (My people) a waste and object of horror,

And splintered and broken My fig tree.

It has stripped them completely bare and thrown them away;

Their branches have become white.

The vine dries up

And the fig tree fails;

The pomegranate, the palm also, and the apple tree,

All the trees of the field dry up,

Indeed, joy dries up and withdraws

From the sons of men.

Do not be afraid, you animals of the field,

For the pastures of the wilderness have turned green;

The tree has produced its fruit,

And the fig tree and the vine have yielded in full.

Each of them shall sit [in security and peace] under his vine

And under his fig tree,

With no one to make them afraid,

For the mouth of the [omnipotent] LORD of hosts has spoken it.

Though the fig tree does not blossom

And there is no fruit on the vines,

Though the yield of the olive fails

And the fields produce no food,

Though the flock is cut off from the fold

And there are no cattle in the stalls,