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Yet I had planted you a noble vine, wholly a right seed: how then are you turned into the degenerate branches of a foreign vine to me?
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God's Precious Planting
Commentators explain that God compares Israel to a "noble vine," a specific, high-quality plant (a "Sorek" vine) known for producing the best wine. This metaphor shows how highly God valued His people and the good, fruitful purpose He intended for them when He established them.
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Jeremiah
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18th Century
Presbyterian
A noble vine – Properly, a Sorek vine (), which produced a red wine (Proverbs 23:31) and had a lasting reputation ([Reference Ge…
19th Century
Anglican
A noble vine. —Literally, a Sorek vine. Elsewhere rendered choice or choicest ([Reference Genesis 49:11…
Baptist
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…
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16th Century
Protestant
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…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
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…
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13th Century
Catholic
Here, he removes their excuses.
They might bring up the neglect of the farmer. Against this, he says, I have planted…
