A noble vine – Properly, a Sorek vine , which produced a red wine (Proverbs 23:31) and had a lasting reputation ([Reference Gene…

A noble vine. —Literally, a Sorek vine. Elsewhere rendered choice or choicest ([Reference Genesis 49:11…

Your own wickedness shall correct you, and your backslidings shall reprove you: know therefore and see that it is an evil thing and bitter, tha…

God here confirms what is said in the last verse, for He condemned the Israelites for having perversely run here and there after their superstition…

Yet I had planted you a noble vine, wholly a right seed
It is usual to compare the people of the Jews to a vineyard,…

Despite all their advantages, Israel had become like the wild vine that bears poisonous fruit. People are often as much under the power of their un…

1. Here, he removes their excuses.

   1. They might bring up the neglect of the farmer. Against this, he says, I have planted…