Jeremiah 2:21

KJV1611 – Modern English

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

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  • Exod 15:17 : 17 You will bring them in, and plant them in the mountain of your inheritance, in the place, O LORD, which you have made for you to dwell in, in the Sanctuary, O Lord, which your hands have established.
  • Ps 80:8 : 8 You have brought a vine out of Egypt; you have cast out the nations, and planted it.
  • Isa 5:4 : 4 What more could have been done to my vineyard, that I have not done in it? Why, when I looked for it to bring forth grapes, did it bring forth wild grapes?
  • Ps 44:2 : 2 How You drove out the heathen with Your hand, and planted them; how You afflicted the peoples and cast them out.
  • Deut 32:32 : 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:
  • Josh 24:31 : 31 And Israel served the LORD all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders who survived Joshua, and who had known all the works of the LORD, which he had done for Israel.
  • Isa 41:8 : 8 But you, Israel, are my servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, the seed of Abraham my friend.
  • Isa 60:21 : 21 Also your people shall all be righteous; they shall inherit the land forever, the branch of My planting, the work of My hands, that I may be glorified.
  • Isa 61:3 : 3 To appoint to those who mourn in Zion, to give them beauty 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.
  • Lam 4:1 : 1 How has the gold become dim! How is the finest gold changed! The stones of the sanctuary are poured out at the top of every street.
  • Matt 21:33 : 33 Hear another parable: There was a certain landowner who planted a vineyard and hedged it around, dug a winepress in it, built a tower, and leased it to vine dressers, and went into a far country.
  • Mark 12:1 : 1 And he began to speak to them in parables. A certain man planted a vineyard, and set a hedge around it, and dug a place for the winepress, and built a tower, and leased it to farmers, and went into a far country.
  • Luke 20:9 : 9 Then he began to speak this parable to the people: A certain man planted a vineyard, and rented it out to tenant farmers, and went into a far country for a long time.
  • John 15:1 : 1 I am the true vine, and my Father is the gardener.
  • Ps 105:6 : 6 O seed of Abraham his servant, you children of Jacob his chosen.
  • Isa 1:21 : 21 How the faithful city has become a harlot! it was full of judgment; righteousness lodged in it; but now murderers.
  • Isa 5:1-2 : 1 Now I will sing to my beloved a song of my beloved concerning his vineyard. My beloved has a vineyard on a very fruitful hill: 2 And he fenced it, and removed its stones, and planted it with the choicest vine, and built a tower in the midst of it, and also made a winepress in it: and he expected it to bring forth grapes, but it brought forth wild grapes.
  • Deut 4:37 : 37 And because he loved your fathers, therefore he chose their seed after them, and brought you out in his sight with his mighty power out of Egypt;
  • Gen 18:19 : 19 For I know him, that he will command his children and his household after him, and they shall keep the way of the LORD, to do justice and judgment; that the LORD may bring upon Abraham that which he has spoken of him.
  • Gen 26:3-5 : 3 Stay in this land, and I will be with you, and will bless you; for to you, and to your descendants, I will give all these countries, and I will fulfill the oath which I swore to Abraham your father; 4 And I will make your descendants multiply as the stars of heaven, and will give to your descendants all these countries; and in your seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed; 5 Because Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws.
  • Gen 32:28 : 28 And he said, Your name shall no longer be called Jacob, but Israel: for as a prince you have power with God and with men, and have prevailed.

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  • Ezek 17:5-11
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    5He also took some of the seed of the land and planted it in a fertile field; he placed it by great waters, and set it as a willow tree.

    6And it grew and became a spreading vine of low stature, whose branches turned toward him, and its roots were under him: so it became a vine and brought forth branches and shot forth sprigs.

    7There was also another great eagle with great wings and many feathers: and, behold, this vine bent her roots toward him and shot forth her branches toward him, that he might water it by the furrows of her plantation.

    8It was planted in good soil by great waters, that it might bring forth branches and bear fruit, that it might be a goodly vine.

    9Say thus says the Lord GOD; Shall it prosper? Shall he not pull up its roots and cut off its fruit, that it withers? It shall wither in all the leaves of her spring, even without great power or many people to pluck it up by its roots.

    10Yes, behold, being planted, shall it prosper? Shall it not utterly wither when the east wind touches it? It shall wither in the furrows where it grew.

    11Moreover the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

  • Jer 2:19-20
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    19Your own wickedness shall correct you, and your backslidings shall reprove you: know therefore and see that it is an evil thing and bitter, that you have forsaken the LORD your God, and that my fear is not in you, says the Lord GOD of hosts.

    20For from of old I have broken your yoke, and burst your bonds; and you said, I will not transgress; when upon every high hill and under every green tree you wandered, playing the harlot.

  • Jer 11:15-17
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    15What has my beloved to do in my house, seeing she has worked lewdness with many, and the holy flesh is passed from you? When you do evil, then you rejoice.

    16The LORD called your name, A green olive tree, lovely and of good fruit: with the noise of a great tumult he has kindled fire upon it, and its branches are broken.

    17For the LORD of hosts, who planted you, has pronounced evil against you for the evil of the house of Israel and of the house of Judah, which they have done against themselves to provoke me to anger in offering incense to Baal.

  • Isa 17:10-11
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    10Because you have forgotten the God of your salvation, and have not been mindful of the rock of your strength, therefore you shall plant pleasant plants, and set them with strange slips:

    11In the day you shall make your plant to grow, and in the morning you shall make your seed to flourish: but the harvest shall be a heap in the day of grief and desperate sorrow.

  • Ps 80:15
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    15And the vineyard which your right hand has planted, and the branch that you made strong for yourself.

  • Isa 5:1-5
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    1Now I will sing to my beloved a song of my beloved concerning his vineyard. My beloved has a vineyard on a very fruitful hill:

    2And he fenced it, and removed its stones, and planted it with the choicest vine, and built a tower in the midst of it, and also made a winepress in it: and he expected it to bring forth grapes, but it brought forth wild grapes.

    3And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem, and men of Judah, judge, I pray you, between me and my vineyard.

    4What more could have been done to my vineyard, that I have not done in it? Why, when I looked for it to bring forth grapes, did it bring forth wild grapes?

    5And now, I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard: I will take away its hedge, and it shall be eaten up; break down its wall, and it shall be trampled down:

  • Ps 80:8-9
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    8You have brought a vine out of Egypt; you have cast out the nations, and planted it.

    9You prepared room before it, and caused it to take deep root, and it filled the land.

  • Jer 2:7
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    7And I brought you into a plentiful country, to eat its fruit and its goodness; but when you entered, you defiled my land, and made my heritage an abomination.

  • Ezek 15:2
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    2Son of man, what is the vine tree more than any tree, or than a branch among the trees of the forest?

  • Joel 1:7
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    7He has laid my vine waste, and stripped my fig tree: he has made it bare and cast it away; its branches are made white.

  • Isa 5:7
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    7For the vineyard of the LORD of hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah are his pleasant plant: and he looked for justice, but behold, oppression; for righteousness, but behold, a cry.

  • Jer 12:2
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    2You have planted them, yes, they have taken root; they grow, yes, they bring forth fruit. You are near in their mouth, but far from their hearts.

  • Jer 3:20
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    20Surely, as a wife treacherously departs from her husband, so have you dealt treacherously with me, O house of Israel, says the LORD.

  • Ezek 15:6
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    6Therefore thus says the Lord GOD; Like the vine tree among the trees of the forest, which I have given to the fire for fuel, so will I give the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

  • Jer 2:22
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    22For though you wash yourself with lye, and take much soap, yet your iniquity is marked before me, says the Lord GOD.

  • Ezek 17:22
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    22Thus says the Lord GOD; I will also take of the highest branch of the high cedar and will set it; I will crop off from the top of its young twigs a tender one, and will plant it upon a high and prominent mountain:

  • Isa 1:29-30
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    29For they shall be ashamed of the oaks which you have desired, and you shall be confounded for the gardens that you have chosen.

    30For you shall be as an oak whose leaf fades, and as a garden that has no water.

  • Jer 31:5
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    5You shall yet plant vineyards upon the mountains of Samaria: the planters shall plant, and shall eat them as common things.

  • Ezek 19:10
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    10Your mother is like a vine in your blood, planted by the waters; she was fruitful and full of branches because of many waters.

  • Ps 80:12
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    12Why have you then broken down its hedges, so that all those who pass by the way pluck it?

  • Isa 18:5
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    5For before the harvest, when the bud is perfect, and the sour grape is ripening in the flower, he shall both cut off the sprigs with pruning hooks, and take away and cut down the branches.

  • Nah 2:2
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    2For the LORD has turned away the grandeur of Jacob, as the grandeur of Israel: for the emptiers have emptied them out, and ruined their vine branches.

  • Hos 10:1
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    1Israel is an empty vine, he brings forth fruit for himself: according to the multitude of his fruit he has increased the altars; according to the goodness of his land they have made beautiful images.

  • Jer 45:4
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    4Thus you shall say to him, The LORD says this; Behold, that which I have built I will break down, and that which I have planted I will uproot, even this whole land.

  • Rom 11:19
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    19You will say then, The branches were broken off that I might be grafted in.

  • Rom 11:17
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    17And if some of the branches were broken off, and you, being a wild olive tree, were grafted in among them, and with them partake of the root and fatness of the olive tree,

  • Amos 9:15
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    15And I will plant them upon their land, and they shall no more be pulled up out of their land which I have given them, says the LORD your God.

  • Jer 31:28
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    28And it shall come to pass, that just as I have watched over them, to uproot, to break down, to throw down, and to destroy, and to harm; so will I watch over them, to build and to plant, says the LORD.

  • Jer 12:10
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    10Many shepherds have destroyed My vineyard, they have trampled My portion underfoot; they have made My pleasant portion a desolate wilderness.

  • Ezek 19:12-13
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    12But she was plucked up in fury, she was cast down to the ground, and the east wind dried up her fruit; her strong rods were broken and withered; the fire consumed them.

    13And now she is planted in the wilderness, in a dry and thirsty land.

  • Hos 2:12
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    12And I will destroy her vines and her fig trees, of which she said, These are my rewards that my lovers have given me: and I will make them a forest, and the animals of the field shall eat them.

  • Jer 22:6
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    6For thus says the LORD to the house of the king of Judah; You are Gilead to me, and the head of Lebanon: yet surely I will make you a wilderness, and cities which are not inhabited.

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    13Only acknowledge your iniquity, that you have transgressed against the LORD your God, and have scattered your ways to the strangers under every green tree, and you have not obeyed my voice, says the LORD.