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Jeremiah 2:21

2:20 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. transgress: or, serve
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?

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Yet I had planted you a noble vine, a pure and faithful seed. How then have you turned into the degenerate branches of a foreign vine to me?

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?

Yet I had planted you a noble vine, wholly a right seed: how then are you turned into the degenerate plant of a strange vine to me?

2:22 For though thou wash thee with nitre, and take thee much soap, yet thine iniquity is marked before me, saith the Lord GOD.

What does Jeremiah 2:21 mean?

Jeremiah 2:21 is a verse in the book of Jeremiah, in the Old Testament. In the original Hebrew, key words include נָטַע (nâṭaʻ), שֹׂרֵק (sôrêq), אֶמֶת (ʼemeth). It connects to 3 cross-referenced passages elsewhere in Scripture.

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Yet
I
had
plantedנָטַעnâṭaʻ/naw-tah'/H5193properly, to strike in, i.e. fix; specifically, to plant (literally or figuratively)
thee
a
noble
vine,שֹׂרֵקsôrêq/so-rake'/H8321a vine stock (properly, one yielding purple grapes, the richest variety)
wholly
a
rightאֶמֶתʼemeth/eh'-meth/H571stability; (figuratively) certainty, truth, trustworthiness
seed:זֶרַעzeraʻ/zeh'-rah/H2233seed; figuratively, fruit, plant, sowing-time, posterity
how
then
art
thou
turnedהָפַךְhâphak/haw-fak'/H2015to turn about or over; by implication, to change, overturn, return, pervert
into
the
degenerate
plantסוּרçûwr/soor/H5494turned off, i.e. deteriorated
of
a
strangeנׇכְרִיnokrîy/nok-ree'/H5237strange, in a variety of degrees and applications (foreign, non-relative, adulterous, different, wonderful)
vineגֶּפֶןgephen/gheh'-fen/H1612a vine (as twining), especially the grape
unto
me?

Commentary on Jeremiah 2:21

HENRY_FULL · Jeremiah 2:21
="italic">yea, they give delight unto their souls. It is a pleasure to parents, which none know but those that are blessed with it, to see the happy fruit of the good education they have given their children, and to have a prospect of their well-doing for both worlds; it gives delight proportionable to the many thoughts of heart that have been concerning them. 2. In order to this, children must be trained up under a strict discipline, and not suffered to do what they will and to go without rebuke when they do amiss. The foolishness bound up in their hearts must by correction be driven out when they are young, or it will break out, to their own and their parents' shame, when they are grown up. Miscellaneous Maxims. 18 Where there is no vision, the people perish: but he that keepeth the law, happy is he. See here, I. The misery of the people that want a settled

Cross-references

Related passages from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

Job 19:16

I called my servant, and he gave me no answer; I intreated him with my mouth.

Jeremiah 26:3

If so be they will hearken, and turn every man from his evil way, that I may repent me of the evil, which I purpose to do unto them because of the evil of their doings.

Jeremiah 30:22

And ye shall be my people, and I will be your God.

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Verses like this

Other verses that share key original-language words with Jeremiah 2:21.

Genesis 49:11

Binding his foal unto the vine, and his ass's colt unto the choice vine; he washed his garments in wine, and his clothes in the blood of grapes:

Isaiah 5:2

And he fenced it, and gathered out the stones thereof, and planted it with the choicest vine, and built a tower in the midst of it, and also made a winepress therein: and he looked that it should bring forth grapes, and it brought forth wild grapes. fenced: or, made a wall about made: Heb. hewed

Psalms 80:8

Thou hast brought a vine out of Egypt: thou hast cast out the heathen, and planted it.

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What does Jeremiah 2:21 say?

Jeremiah 2:21 (King James Version) reads: "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?"

Is Jeremiah 2:21 in the Old or New Testament?

Jeremiah 2:21 is in the Old Testament of the Bible, in the book of Jeremiah.

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