Jeremiah 2:21 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²¹Yet 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 —

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Cross-References

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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?
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.
John 15:1
I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman.
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.
Psalms 80:8
Thou hast brought a vine out of Egypt: thou hast cast out the heathen, and planted it.

Topics

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 20-28)

In these verses the prophet goes on with his charge against this backsliding people. Observe here, I. The sin itself that he charges them with—idolatry, that great provocation which they were so notoriously guilty of. 1. They frequented the places of idol-worship (Jer. 2:20): “ Upon every high hill and under every green tree, in the high places and the groves, such as the heathen had a foolish fon…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 21)

21. The same image as in De 32:32; Psa 80:8, 9; Is 5:1, &c. unto me--with respect to Me.