Jeremiah 2:21 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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?

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²¹ Yet I had planted you [O house of Israel] a choice vine, wholly of pure seed. How then have you turned into degenerate shoots of wild vine alien to Me?

American Standard Version (1901)

²¹ Yet I had planted thee a noble vine, wholly a right seed: how then art thou turned into the degenerate branches of a foreign vine unto me?

Common English Bible

²¹ Yet it was I who planted you, a precious vine of fine quality; how could you turn into a wild vine and become good for nothing?

Catholic Public Domain Version

²¹ Yet I planted you as an elect vineyard, with only true seed. Then how have you been turned away from me, toward that which is depraved, O strange vineyard?

Jeremiah 2:21 Cross References

Isaiah 5:4

What could have been done more to my vineyard, that I have not done in it? wherefore, when I looked that it should bring forth grapes, brought it forth wild grapes?

Exodus 15:17

Thou shalt bring them in, and plant them in the mountain of thine inheritance, The place, O LORD, which thou hast made for thee to dwell in, The sanctuary, O Lord, which thy hands have established.

John 15:1

I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman.

Psalm 44:2

Thou didst drive out the nations with thy hand, and plantedst them in; Thou didst afflict the peoples, and didst spread them abroad.

Psalm 80:8

Thou broughtest a vine out of Egypt: Thou didst drive out the nations, and plantedst it.

Deuteronomy 4:37

And because he loved thy fathers, therefore he chose their seed after them, and brought thee out with his presence, with his great power, out of Egypt;

Luke 20:9

And he began to speak unto the people this parable: A man planted a vineyard, and let it out to husbandmen, and went into another country for a long time.

Mark 12:1

And he began to speak unto them in parables. A man planted a vineyard, and set a hedge about it, and digged a pit for the winepress, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and went into another country.

Deuteronomy 32:32

For their vine is of the vine of Sodom, And of the fields of Gomorrah: Their grapes are grapes of gall, Their clusters are bitter:

Matthew 21:33

Hear another parable: There was a man that was a householder, which planted a vineyard, and set a hedge about it, and digged a winepress in it, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and went into another country.

Isaiah 61:3

to appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give unto them a garland for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they might be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the LORD, that he might be glorified.

Isaiah 60:21

Thy people also shall be all righteous, they shall inherit the land for ever; the branch of my planting, the work of my hands, that I may be glorified.

Isaiah 41:8

But thou, Israel, my servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, the seed of Abraham my friend;

Isaiah 1:21

How is the faithful city become an harlot! she that was full of judgement! righteousness lodged in her, but now murderers.

Psalm 105:6

O ye seed of Abraham his servant, Ye children of Jacob, his chosen ones.

Joshua 24:31

And Israel served the LORD all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders that outlived Joshua, and had known all the work of the LORD, that he had wrought for Israel.

Lamentations 4:1

How is the gold become dim! how is the most pure gold changed! the stones of the sanctuary are poured out at the top of every street.

Genesis 32:28

And he said, Thy name shall be called no more Jacob, but Israel: for thou hast striven with God and with men, and hast prevailed.

Genesis 18:19

For I have known him, to the end that he may command his children and his household after him, that they may keep the way of the LORD, to do justice and judgement; to the end that the LORD may bring upon Abraham that which he hath spoken of him.

Isaiah 27:2

In that day: A vineyard of wine, sing ye unto it.

Jeremiah 11:17

For the LORD of hosts, that planted thee, hath pronounced evil against thee, because of the evil of the house of Israel and of the house of Judah, which they have wrought for themselves in provoking me to anger by offering incense unto Baal.

Psalm 80:9

Thou preparedst room before it, And it took deep root, and filled the land.

Jeremiah 5:10

Go ye up upon her walls, and destroy; but make not a full end: take away her branches: for they are not the LORD'S.

Jeremiah 11:16

The LORD called thy name, A green olive tree, fair with goodly fruit: with the noise of a great tumult he hath kindled fire upon it, and the branches of it are broken.

Ezekiel 15:2

Son of man, What is the vine tree more than any tree, the vine branch which is among the trees of the forest?