Jeremías 2:21

21 Y yo te planté de buen viñedo, simiente de Verdad toda ella, ¿cómo, pues, te me has tornado sarmientos de vid extraña?

Jeremías 2:21 Meaning and Commentary

Jeremiah 2:21

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 5:1-7 ) ( Exodus 15:17 ) ( Psalms 80:8-15 ) . 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.''

Jeremías 2:21 In-Context

19 Tu maldad te castigará, y tu apartamiento te acusará; sabe, pues, y ve cuán malo y amargo es tú dejar al SEÑOR tu Dios, y faltar mi temor en ti, dijo el Señor DIOS de los ejércitos.

20 Porque desde muy atrás he quebrado tu yugo, y roto tus ataduras; y dijiste: No serviré (al pecado ). Con todo eso, sobre todo collado alto y debajo de todo árbol umbroso, corrías tú, oh ramera.

21 Y yo te planté de buen viñedo, simiente de Verdad toda ella, ¿cómo, pues, te me has tornado sarmientos de vid extraña?

22 Aunque te laves con salitre, y amontones jabón sobre ti, tu pecado está sellado delante de mí, dijo el Señor DIOS.

23 ¿Cómo dices: No soy inmunda, nunca anduve tras los baales? Mira tu proceder en el valle, reconoce lo que has hecho, dromedaria ligera que frecuentas sus carreras;