Jeremiah 2:21

I planted you as a choice vine, completely from pure seed. 1 How then have you have changed yourself into a corrupt, worthless vine? 1

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Yet I had planted thee a noble vine, wholly a right seed: how then art thou turned into the degenerate plant of a strange vine unto me?

In Context

20For I broke your yoke that you had in ancient days; I tore your fetters off you. Still you said, 1 'I will not serve!' since you bowed down on every high hill and beneath every leafy tree, you adulterer. 1

22For even if you clean yourself in the river or wash with strong soap, 1 your iniquity is a stain before me—this is the declaration of the Lord Yahweh. 1

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Cross References

Genesis 26:3Stay in this very land, and I will be with you and will bless you; for to you and to your descendants, I will give all these lands, and I will fulfill the oath that I swore to Abraham your father.

Exodus 15:17You will bring them and plant them on the mountain of your inheritance, 1 the place, Yahweh, that you have made to live in, 1 the sanctuary, our Lord, that your hands have built. 1

Deuteronomy 32:32For their vine comes from the vine of Sodom, 1 and from the fields of Gomorrah; 1 their grapes are grapes of poison; 1 their clusters are bitter. 1

Psalms 44:2You drove out the nations with your hand, 1 but you planted our people; 1 you afflicted the peoples, 1 but you spread our people out in the land. 1

Psalms 80:9You cleared the land for it; 1 it took root and filled the land. 1

Isaiah 1:21How the faithful city has become a prostitute! 1 She who was full of justice—she was full of righteousness, 1 but now she is full of murderers. 1

Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 2:21-29

Expostulations with Israel. ( b. c. 629.) 20 For of old time I have broken thy yoke, and burst thy bands; and thou saidst, I will not transgress; when upon every high hill and under every green tree thou wanderest, playing the harlot. 21 Yet I had planted thee a noble vine, wholly a right seed: how then art thou turned into the degenerate plant of a strange vine unto me? 22 For though thou wash thee with nitre, and take thee much soap, yet thine iniquity is marked before me, saith the Lord God . 23 How canst thou… Read the whole commentary →

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