Jeremiah 2:21

Bible in Basic English 1965

But when you were planted by me, you were a noble vine, in every way a true seed: how then have you been changed into the branching plant of a strange vine?

Cross References

Genesis 18:19

For I have made him mine so that he may give orders to his children and those of his line after him, to keep the ways of the Lord, to do what is good and right: so that the Lord may do to Abraham as he has said.

Genesis 32:28

And he said, Your name will no longer be Jacob, but Israel: for in your fight with God and with men you have overcome.

Psalm 105:6

O you seed of Abraham, his servant, you children of Jacob, his loved ones.

Psalm 44:2

Uprooting the nations with your hand, and planting our fathers in their place; cutting down the nations, but increasing the growth of your people.

Psalm 80:8

You took a vine out of Egypt: driving out the nations, and planting it in their land.

Psalm 80:9

You made ready a place for it, so that it might take deep root, and it sent out its branches over all the land.

Exodus 15:17

You will take them in, planting them in the mountain of your heritage, the place, O Lord, where you have made your house, the holy place, O Lord, the building of your hands.

Isaiah 1:21

The upright town has become untrue; there was a time when her judges gave right decisions, when righteousness had a resting-place in her, but now she is full of those who take men's lives.

Isaiah 27:2

In that day it will be said, A vine-garden of delight, make a song about it.

Isaiah 41:8

But as for you, Israel, my servant, and you, Jacob, whom I have taken for myself, the seed of Abraham my friend:

Isaiah 5:4

Is there anything which might have been done for my vine-garden which I have not done? why then, when I was hoping for the best grapes did it give me common grapes?

Isaiah 60:21

Your people will all be upright, the land will be their heritage for ever; the branch of my planting, the work of my hands, to be for my glory.

Isaiah 61:3

To give them a fair head-dress in place of dust, the oil of joy in place of the clothing of grief, praise in place of sorrow; so that they may be named trees of righteousness, the planting of the Lord, and so that he may have glory.

Jeremiah 11:16

You had been named by the Lord, A branching olive-tree, fair with beautiful fruit: with the noise of a great rushing he has put it on fire and its branches are broken.

Jeremiah 11:17

For the Lord of armies, by whom you were planted, has given his decision for evil against you, because of the evil which the people of Israel and the people of Judah have done, In moving me to wrath by offering perfumes to the Baal.

Jeremiah 5:10

Go up against her vines and make waste; let the destruction be complete: take away her branches, for they are not the Lord's.

Lamentations 4:1

How dark has the gold become! how changed the best gold! the stones of the holy place are dropping out at the top of every street.

Ezekiel 15:2

Son of man, what is the vine-tree more than any branching tree which is among the trees of the woods?

Matthew 21:33

Give ear to another story. A master of a house made a vine garden, and put a wall round it, and made a place for crushing out the wine, and made a tower, and let it out to field-workers, and went into another country.

Mark 12:1

And he gave them teaching in the form of stories. A man had a vine-garden planted, and put a wall about it, and made a place for crushing out the wine, and put up a tower, and let it out to field-workers, and went into another country.

Luke 20:9

And he gave the people this story: A man made a vine-garden and gave the use of it to some field-workers and went into another country for a long time.

John 15:1

I am the true vine and my Father is the gardener.

Deuteronomy 32:32

For their vine is the vine of Sodom, from the fields of Gomorrah: their grapes are the grapes of evil, and the berries are bitter:

Deuteronomy 4:37

And because of his love for your fathers, he took their seed and made it his, and he himself, present among you, took you out of Egypt by his great power;

Joshua 24:31

And Israel was true to the Lord all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the older men who were still living after Joshua's death, and had seen what the Lord had done for Israel.