For I have chosen him so that he will command his children and his house after him to keep the way of the Lord by doing what is right and just. This is how the Lord will fulfil to Abraham what he promised him.’
Jeremiah 2:21 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised I planted you, a choice vine from the very best seed. How then could you turn into a degenerate, foreign vine? Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 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 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) 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 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 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? Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Yet I planted thee a chosen vineyard, all true seed: how then art thou turned unto me into that which is good for nothing, O strange vineyard? |
For I have chosen him so that he will command his children and his house after him to keep the way of the Lord by doing what is right and just. This is how the Lord will fulfil to Abraham what he promised him.’
‘Your name will no longer be Jacob,’ he said. ‘It will be Israel because you have struggled with God and with men and have prevailed.’
You will bring them in and plant them on the mountain of your possession; Lord, you have prepared the place for your dwelling; Lord, your hands have established the sanctuary.
The faithful town – what an adulteress she has become! She was once full of justice. Righteousness once dwelt in her, but now, murderers!
But you, Israel, my servant, Jacob, whom I have chosen, descendant of Abraham, my friend –
What more could I have done for my vineyard than I did? Why, when I expected a yield of good grapes, did it yield worthless grapes?
All your people will be righteous; they will possess the land for ever; they are the branch I planted, the work of my hands, so that I may be glorified.
to provide for those who mourn in Zion; to give them a crown of beauty instead of ashes, festive oil instead of mourning, and splendid clothes instead of despair. And they will be called righteous trees, planted by the Lord to glorify him.
The Lord named you a flourishing olive tree, beautiful with well-formed fruit. He has set fire to it, and its branches are consumed , with the sound of a mighty tumult.
‘The Lord of Armies who planted you has decreed disaster against you, because of the disaster the house of Israel and the house of Judah brought on themselves when they angered me by burning incense to Baal.’
Go up among her vineyard terraces and destroy them, but do not finish them off. Prune away her shoots, for they do not belong to the Lord.
How the gold has become tarnished, the fine gold become dull! The stones of the temple lie scattered at the head of every street.
‘Son of man, how does the wood of the vine, that branch among the trees of the forest, compare to any other wood?
‘Listen to another parable: There was a landowner, who planted a vineyard, put a fence round it, dug a winepress in it, and built a watchtower. He leased it to tenant farmers and went away.
He began to speak to them in parables: ‘A man planted a vineyard, put a fence round it, dug out a pit for a winepress, and built a watchtower. Then he leased it to tenant farmers and went away.
Now he began to tell the people this parable: ‘A man planted a vineyard, leased it to tenant farmers, and went away for a long time.
For their vine is from the vine of Sodom and from the fields of Gomorrah. Their grapes are poisonous; their clusters are bitter.
Because he loved your ancestors, he chose their descendants after them and brought you out of Egypt by his presence and great power,
Israel worshipped the Lord throughout Joshua’s lifetime and during the lifetimes of the elders who outlived Joshua and who had experienced all the works the Lord had done for Israel.