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Jer. 2:21 KJV (With Strong’s)

Yet I had planted thee a nobler vine, wholly a right seed: how then art thou turned into the degenerate plant of a stranget vine unto me?

Psa. 80:8• ⁸A vine out of Egypt thou broughtest;{HR}Thou didst drive out nations, and didst plant it. (Psa. 80:8)

Deut. 32:32• ³²For their vine is of the vine of Sodom,{HR}And of the fields of Gomorrah:{HR}Their grapes are grapes of poison,{HR}Bitter are their clusters;{HR} (Deut. 32:32)

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Yet I.

Ex. 15:17• ¹⁷Thou shalt bring them in,{HR}And plant them in the mountain of thine inheritance,{HR}In the place, O Jehovah, which thou hast made for Thee to dwell in,{HR}In the sanctuary, O Jehovah, which thy hands have established. (Ex. 15:17)

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Psa. 44:2• ²Thou [with] thy hand didst drive out the Gentiles and plant them;{HR}Thou didst evil to nations and didst send them forth. (Psa. 44:2)

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Psa. 80:8• ⁸A vine out of Egypt thou broughtest;{HR}Thou didst drive out nations, and didst plant it. (Psa. 80:8)

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Isa. 5:1‑2• ¹I will sing to my well-beloved a song of my beloved touching his vineyard. My well beloved had a vineyard in a very fruitful hill;
²and he dug it up, and gathered out the stones thereof, and planted it with the choicest vine; and he built a tower in the midst of it, and also hewed a winepress therein; and he looked that it should bring forth grapes, and it brought forth wild grapes. (Isa. 5:1‑2)

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Isa. 60:21• ²¹Thy people also [shall be] all righteous: they shall possess the land forever—the branch of my planting, the work of my hands, that I may be glorified. (Isa. 60:21)

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Isa. 61:3• ³to appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, that beauty be given them instead of ashes, the oil of joy instead of mourning, the garment of praise instead of the spirit of heaviness, that they might be called oaks of righteousness, the planting of Jehovah, that he might be glorified. (Isa. 61:3)

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Matt. 21:33• ³³Hear another parable: There was a householder who planted a vineyard, and made a fence round it, and dug a winepress in it, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and left the country. (Matt. 21:33)

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Mark 12:1• ¹And he began to say to them in parables, A man planted a vineyard and made a fence round it, and dug a wine-vat, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and went into a far country. (Mark 12:1)

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Luke 20:9• ⁹And he began to speak to the people this parable: A man planted a vineyard and let it out to husbandmen, and left the country for a long time. (Luke 20:9)

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John 15:1• ¹I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman. (John 15:1)

wholly.

Gen. 18:19• ¹⁹For I know him, that he will command his children and his household after him, and they shall keep the way of Jehovah, to do justice and judgment; that Jehovah may bring upon Abraham that which he hath spoken of him. (Gen. 18:19)

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Gen. 26:3‑5• ³Sojourn in this land; and I will be with thee and bless thee; for to thee and to thy seed I will give all these lands; and I will establish the oath which I swore to Abraham thy father.
⁴And I will multiply thy seed as the stars of heaven, and to thy seed I will give all these lands; and in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed;
⁵because Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws. (Gen. 26:3‑5)

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Gen. 32:28• ²⁸And he said, Not Jacob shall be called henceforth thy name, but Israel; for thou hast wrestled with God and with men, and hast prevailed. (Gen. 32:28)

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Deut. 4:37• ³⁷And because he loved thy fathers, and chose their seed after them, he brought thee out with his countenance, with his great power, out of Egypt, (Deut. 4:37)

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Josh. 24:31• ³¹And Israel served Jehovah all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders whose days were prolonged after Joshua, and who had known all the works of Jehovah, which he had done for Israel. (Josh. 24:31)

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Psa. 105:6• ⁶O seed of Abraham his servant,{HR}Sons of Jacob, his chosen (ones). (Psa. 105:6)

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Isa. 41:8• ⁸But thou, Israel, my servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, the seed of Abraham my friend, (Isa. 41:8)

into the degenerate.

Deut. 32:32• ³²For their vine is of the vine of Sodom,{HR}And of the fields of Gomorrah:{HR}Their grapes are grapes of poison,{HR}Bitter are their clusters;{HR} (Deut. 32:32)

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Isa. 1:21• ²¹How is the faithful city become a harlot! she that was full of judgment, righteousness lodged in her, but now murderers. (Isa. 1:21)

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Isa. 5:4• ⁴What 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? (Isa. 5:4)

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Lam. 4:1• ¹How the gold is become dim! the most fine gold is changed!{HR}The sacred stones are thrown down at the top of every street! (Lam. 4:1)

J. N. Darby Translation

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?

W. Kelly Translation

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?

WK Verse Note

(Note: Words in italics have been inserted from the J. N. Darby translation where the W. Kelly translation doesn’t exist.)