Jeremiah 2:21 - The Scriptures 1998

²¹ “Yet I had planted you a choice vine, all of it a true seed. How then have you turned before Me into the degenerate plant of a strange vine?

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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

Genesis 18:19

“For I have known him, so that he commands his children and his household after him, to guard the way of יהוה, to do righteousness and right-ruling, so that יהוה  brings to Aḇ

Genesis 32:28

And He said, “Your name is no longer called Yaʽ

Psalm 105:6

O seed of Aḇ

Psalm 44:2

You drove out the nations with Your hand, But them You planted. You afflicted peoples, and sent them out.

Psalm 80:8

You brought a vine out of Mitsrayim; You drove out the nations, and planted it.

Psalm 80:9

You cleared a place for it, And caused it to take deep root, And it filled the land.

Exodus 15:17

“You bring them in and plant them in the mountain of Your inheritance, in the place, O יהוה, which You have made for Your own dwelling, the set-apart place, O יהוה, which Your hands have prepared.

Isaiah 1:21

How the steadfast city has become a whore! I have filled it with right-ruling; righteousness lodged in it, but now murderers.

Isaiah 27:2

In that day sing to her, “A vineyard of red wine!

Isaiah 41:8

“But you, Yisra’ĕ

Isaiah 5:4

“What more could have been done to My vineyard that I have not done in it? Why, when I waited for the yielding of grapes, did it yield rotten ones?

Isaiah 60:21

“And your people, all of them righteous, shall inherit the earth forever – a branch of My planting, a work of My hands, to be adorned.

Isaiah 61:3

to appoint unto those who mourn in Tsiyon: to give them embellishment for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness. And they shall be called trees of righteousness, a planting of יהוה, to be adorned.

Jeremiah 11:16

“יהוה  has named you, ‘Green Olive Tree, Fair, of Goodly Fruit.’ With the noise of a great sound He has set it on fire, and its branches shall be broken.

Jeremiah 11:17

“And יהוה  of hosts, who planted you, has spoken evil against you for the evil of the house of Yisra’ĕ

Jeremiah 5:10

“Go up on her walls and destroy, but do not make a complete end. Take away her branches, for they do not belong to יהוה.

Lamentations 4:1

How dim the gold has become, The fine gold changed! The stones of the set-apart place Are scattered at the head of every street.

Ezekiel 15:2

“Son of man, how is the vine tree better than any tree, the vine branch that has been among the trees of the forest?

Matthew 21:33

“Hear another parable: There was a certain man, a householder who planted a vineyard and placed a hedge around it, and dug a winepress in it and built a watchtower. And he leased it to farmers and went abroad.

Mark 12:1

And He began to speak to them in parables, “A man planted a vineyard and put a hedge around it, and dug a vat for the winepress and built a watchtower, and let it out to farmers and went away.

Luke 20:9

And He began to speak this parable to the people, “A certain man planted a vineyard, and leased it to farmers, and went away for a long time.

John 15:1

“I am the true vine, and My Father is the gardener.

Deuteronomy 32:32

“Their vine is of the vine of Seḏ

Deuteronomy 4:37

“And because He loved your fathers, therefore He chose their seed after them, and brought you out of Mitsrayim with His Presence, with His great power,

Joshua 24:31

And Yisra’ĕ