King James Version
Jeremiah 2:21 in the King James Version says “Yet I had planted thee a noble vine, wholly a right seed: how then art thou turned into the degenerate plant of a strang...” — study this verse from Jeremiah chapter 2 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“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?”
Jeremiah 2:21 · KJV
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.
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. transgress: or, serve
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?
For though thou wash thee with nitre, and take thee much soap, yet thine iniquity is marked before me, saith the Lord GOD.
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; thou art: or, O swift dromedary
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“Yet I had planted”
H5193properly, to strike in, i.e., fix; specifically, to plant (literally or figuratively)
“thee a noble vine”
H8321a vine stock (properly, one yielding purple grapes, the richest variety)
properly, the whole; hence, all, any or every (in the singular only, but often in a plural sense)
“how then art thou turned”
H2015to turn about or over; by implication, to change, overturn, return, pervert
“of a strange”
H5237strange, in a variety of degrees and applications (foreign, non-relative, adulterous, different, wonderful)
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