Jeremia 2:21

Lutherbibel

Ich aber hatte dich gepflanzt zu einem süßen Weinstock, einen ganz rechtschaffenen Samen. Wie bist du mir denn geraten zu einem bitteren, wilden Weinstock?

Parallel Translations

Schlachter Bibel (1951)
Und doch hatte ich dich gepflanzt als eine Edelrebe von ganz echtem Samen; wie hast du dich mir denn verwandeln können in wilde Ranken eines fremden Weinstocks?

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Yet I: Exodus 15:17, Psalms 44:2, Psalms 80:8, Isaiah 5:1, Isaiah 5:2, Isaiah 60:21, Isaiah 61:3, Matthew 21:33, Mark 12:1, Luke 20:9, John 15:1

wholly: Genesis 18:19, Genesis 26:3-5, Genesis 32:28, Deuteronomy 4:37, Joshua 24:31, Psalms 105:6, Isaiah 41:8

into the degenerate: Deuteronomy 32:32, Isaiah 1:21, Isaiah 5:4, Lamentations 4:1

Reciprocal: 2 Kings 4:39 - a wild vine Psalms 80:15 - vineyard Isaiah 27:2 - A vineyard Isaiah 43:26 - Put Jeremiah 11:17 - that Ezekiel 15:2 - What Hosea 4:18 - drink Malachi 1:6 - And ye Malachi 2:11 - profaned Malachi 2:15 - That he Luke 6:43 - General Luke 13:6 - fig tree Acts 17:11 - more Romans 6:5 - planted Romans 11:16 - and if 1 Corinthians 3:9 - ye are God's Hebrews 12:15 - any root James 3:12 - the fig tree

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Yet I had planted thee a noble vine, wholly a right seed,.... It is usual to compare the people of the Jews to a vineyard, and to vines; and their settlement in the land of Canaan to the planting of vines in a vineyard; see Isaiah 5:1. Kimchi says this is spoken concerning Abraham; no doubt respect is had to the Jewish fathers, such as Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the twelve patriarchs, Moses, Joshua, and Caleb, and the like; who, having the true and right seed of grace in them, became like choice and noble vines, and brought forth much fruit, and were deserving of imitation by their posterity:

how then art thou turned into the degenerate plant of a strange vine unto me? like a vine that grows in the woods, and brings forth wild grapes; so these, their sons, degenerating in practice from their fathers, became corrupt in themselves, and unprofitable to God. The Targum of the whole is,

"I set you before me as the plant of a choice vine, all of you doing truth; but how are you changed before me in your corrupt works? ye have declined from my worship, ye are become as a vine in which there is no profit.''

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

A noble vine - Properly, a Sorek vine (see Isaiah 5:2), which produced a red wine Proverbs 23:31, and had a lasting reputation Genesis 49:11.

A right seed - literally, “a seed of truth,” i. e., true, genuine seed, not mixed with weeds, nor with seed of an inferior quality. Compare Matthew 13:24.

How then art thou turned - Or, “How then” hast thou changed thyself “unto me” (i. e., to my hurt or vexation) “into the degenerate” branches “of a strange vine?” The stock, which was God’s planting, was genuine, and of the noblest sort: the wonder was how such a stock could produce shoots of a totally different kind Deuteronomy 32:32.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Jeremiah 2:21. I had planted thee a noble vine — I gave thee the fullest instruction, the purest ordinances, the highest privileges; and reason would that I should expect thee to live suitably to such advantages; but instead of this thou art become degenerate; the tree is deteriorated, and the fruit is bad. Instead of being true worshippers, and of a holy life and conversation, ye are become idolaters of the most corrupt and profligate kind. See Isaiah 5:1, &c., where the same image is used.