Jeremiah 2:21

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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?

Yet i

Wholly

Isaiah 41:8

Into the degenerate

General references

Luke 6:43

Bible References

Yet i

“You will bring them and plant them in the mountain of Your inheritance,

The place, O Lord, which You have made for Your dwelling,

The sanctuary, O Lord, which Your hands have established.

You with Your own hand drove out the nations;
Then You planted them;
You afflicted the peoples,
Then You spread them abroad.

You removed a vine from Egypt;
You drove out the nations and planted it.

Let me sing now for my well-beloved
A song of my beloved concerning His vineyard.
My well-beloved had a vineyard on a fertile hill.

“Then all your people will be righteous;
They will possess the land forever,
The branch of My planting,
The work of My hands,
That I may be glorified.

To grant those who mourn in Zion,
Giving them a garland instead of ashes,
The oil of gladness instead of mourning,
The mantle of praise instead of a spirit of fainting.
So they will be called

oaks of righteousness,

The planting of the Lord, that He may be glorified.

“Listen to another parable. There was a landowner who planted a

vineyard and put a wall around it and dug a wine press in it, and built a tower

, and rented it out to vine-growers and went on a journey.

And He began to speak to them in parables: “A man planted a vineyard and put a

wall around it, and dug a vat under the wine press and built a tower

, and rented it out to vine-growers and went on a journey.

And He began to tell the people this parable: “A man planted a vineyard and rented it out to vine-growers, and went on a journey for a long time.

“I am the true vine, and My Father is the vinedresser.

Wholly

For I have

chosen him, so that he may command his children and his household after him to keep the way of the Lord by doing righteousness and justice, so that the Lord may bring upon Abraham what He has spoken about him.”

Sojourn in this land and I will be with you and bless you, for to you and to your descendants I will give all these lands, and I will establish the oath which I swore to your father Abraham.

He said, “Your name shall no longer be Jacob, but Israel; for you have striven with God and with men and have prevailed.”

Because He loved your fathers, therefore He chose their descendants after them. And He

personally brought you from Egypt by His great power,

Israel served the Lord all the days of Joshua and all the days of the elders who survived Joshua, and had known all the deeds of the Lord which He had done for Israel.

O seed of Abraham, His servant,
O sons of Jacob, His chosen ones!

“But you, Israel, My servant,
Jacob whom I have chosen,
Descendant of Abraham My friend,

Into the degenerate

“For their vine is from the vine of Sodom,
And from the fields of Gomorrah;
Their grapes are grapes of poison,
Their clusters, bitter.

How the faithful city has become a harlot,
She who was full of justice!
Righteousness once lodged in her,
But now murderers.

“What more was there to do for My vineyard that I have not done in it?
Why, when I expected it to produce good grapes did it produce worthless ones?

How dark the gold has become,
How the pure gold has changed!
The sacred stones are poured out
At the corner of every street.

General references

For there is no good tree which produces bad fruit, nor, on the other hand, a bad tree which produces good fruit.