Jeremiah 2:21

Sin

¹⁹ Thine own wickedness shall correct thee, and thy backslidings shall reprove thee: know therefore and see that it is an evil thing and bitter, that thou hast forsaken the LORD thy God, and that my fear is not in thee, saith the Lord GOD of hosts.

²⁰ For of old time I have broken thy yoke, and burst thy bands; and thou saidst, I will not transgress; when upon every high hill and under every green tree thou wanderest, playing the harlot.

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?

²² For though thou wash thee with nitre, and take thee much soap, yet thine iniquity is marked before me, saith the Lord GOD.

²³ How canst thou say, I am not polluted, I have not gone after Baalim? see thy way in the valley, know what thou hast done: thou art a swift dromedary traversing her ways;

This was said to Israel at a particular time, so it is wise to read it together with the surrounding text. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

Compare

BSB: I had planted you like a choice vine from the very best seed. How could you turn yourself before Me into a rotten, wild vine?
KJV: 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?
WEB: Yet I had planted you a noble vine, a pure and faithful seed. How then have you turned into the degenerate branches of a foreign vine to me?
ASV: 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?
DARBY: And I, I had planted thee a noble vine, wholly a right seed; how then art thou turned into the degenerate shoots of a strange vine unto me?
BLB: And I had planted you [as] a vine, all of it a true seed. How then did you turn before Me into degenerates [of a] strange vine?

ÅB: Og enda hadde jeg plantet deg som en edel ranke, helt igjennom av ekte sæd; hvordan er du da blitt omskapt for meg til ville skudd av et fremmed vintre?
OTB: Jeg hadde plantet deg som en utvalgt vinstokk, et helt trofast frø. Hvordan har du da vendt deg mot meg til en korrupt, vill vinstokk?
B1930: Og enda hadde jeg plantet dig som en edel ranke, helt igjennem av ekte sæd; hvorledes er du da blitt omskapt for mig til ville skudd av et fremmed vintre?

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

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?
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Exodus 15:17
Thou shalt bring them in, and plant them in the mountain of thine inheritance, in the place, O LORD, which thou hast made for thee to dwell in, in the Sanctuary, O Lord, which thy hands have established.
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John 15:1
I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman.
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Psalms 80:8
Thou hast brought a vine out of Egypt: thou hast cast out the heathen, and planted it.
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Psalms 44:2
How thou didst drive out the heathen with thy hand, and plantedst them; how thou didst afflict the people, and cast them out.
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Deuteronomy 4:37
And because he loved thy fathers, therefore he chose their seed after them, and brought thee out in his sight with his mighty power out of Egypt;
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Mark 12:1
And he began to speak unto them by parables. A certain man planted a vineyard, and set an hedge about it, and digged a place for the winefat, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and went into a far country.
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Luke 20:9
Then began he to speak to the people this parable; A certain man planted a vineyard, and let it forth to husbandmen, and went into a far country for a long time.
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