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Verse Jeremiah 2:21. _I HAD PLANTED THEE A NOBLE VINE_] I gave thee
the fullest instruction, the purest ordinances, the highest
privileges; and reason would that I should expect thee to _live_
_suita...
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A NOBLE VINE - Properly, a Sorek vine (see Isaiah 5:2), which produced
a red wine Proverbs 23:31, and had a lasting reputation Genesis 49:11.
A RIGHT SEED - li
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CHAPTER S 2:1-3:5
Expostulation and Impeachment
_ 1. His love and kindness to Jerusalem (Jeremiah 2:1) _
2. The unfaithful people (Jeremiah 2:4)
3. The two evils and the results (Jeremiah 2:12)...
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ISRAEL'S FALSE RELIGION. Israel has forfeited the privileges of a son,
and incurred disaster by forsaking Yahweh for the sensuous worship of
the Baalim (_cf._ Jeremiah 2:20; Jeremiah 2:28). Jeremiah 2...
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NOBLE VINE. choice, or precious vine.
STRANGE. foreign....
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Israel's sin and obstinacy under punishment
14 17. Co. points out that Jeremiah 2:13 connects naturally with
Jeremiah 2:18. The cisterns from which Israel has sought water proving
unavailable, she has...
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The fault did not lie in Jehovah's planting, but in Israel's
perversity. Hosea 10:1 has the same illustration. Jeremiah has
probably a reminiscence also of Isaiah 5:1 ff., where, however, Israel
is no...
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HOW THEN ART THOU TURNED, &C.— This passage has occasioned great
perplexity; but it does not seem to have occurred to any interpreter,
that סורי _surei,_ is the imperative feminine of סור _sur,_ and
s...
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D. Pointed Accusation Jeremiah 2:20-28
TRANSLATION
(20) For from of old you have broken your yoke, you have burst your
bands and you said, I will not serve. For upon every high hill and
under every g...
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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?
PLANTED THEE. The same image as . Contrast , etc., Psalms 80...
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A NOBLE VINE] a 'SOREK' vine, the word probably indicating the
darkpurple colour of the fruit. STRANGE VINE] cp. Isaiah 5:2; Isaiah
5:24....
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JEREMIAH'S SECOND PROPHECY (2:1-3:5)
The prophet expostulates with Israel because of their unfaithfulness
to Jehovah.
1-13. Under the figure of the marriage relation Jehovah reminds the
people of Hi...
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A NOBLE VINE. — Literally, _a Sorek vine._ Elsewhere rendered
_choice_ or _choicest_ (Genesis 49:11; Isaiah 5:2). The word
“Sorek” points primarily to the dark purple of the grape, and then
to the val...
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וְ אָֽנֹכִי֙ נְטַעְתִּ֣יךְ שֹׂרֵ֔ק
כֻּלֹּ֖ה זֶ֣רַע...
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CHAPTER II
THE TRUST IN THE SHADOW OF EGYPT
Jeremiah 2:1; Jeremiah 3:1
THE first of the prophet's public addresses is, in fact, a sermon
which proceeds from an exposure of national sin to the menace...
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The first movement in commissioning the called man now commences. He
was commanded to utter a great impeachment in the ears of Jerusalem.
This impeachment was threefold. It first declared how Israel h...
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_Chosen. Hebrew, Sorek, Judges xvi. 4., and Isaias v. 2., and xvi. 8.
(Calmet) --- God created all things good, planted his Church in
justice, and no evil proceeds from Him. (Worthington)_...
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I include all these verses under one view, as the doctrine is one and
the same, though varied with several similitudes. But the whole is
intended to show, to what a degenerate state the Church was red...
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God here confirms what is said in the last verse; for he condemned the
Israelites for having perversely run here and there after their
superstitions, when yet they had been redeemed for this end, — th...
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Chapter 2 contains a most touching appeal to the people at Jerusalem.
It requires no explanation, but deserves the heart's serious
attention. It testifies in the most striking manner to the kindness
a...
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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 v...
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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?
_Ver 21. Yet I had planted thee a noble vine._] Heb., A sorek,...
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_For of old time I have broken thy yoke_ That is, I have delivered
thee from the bondage and tyranny that thou wast under, of old time,
in Egypt; as also divers times besides. See the book of Judges....
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THE SIN OF IDOLATRY...
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Yet I had planted thee a noble vine, the finest and most fruitful of
the Holy Land, WHOLLY A RIGHT SEED, Cf Deuteronomy 32:32; Psalms 80:8;
Isaiah 5:1; how, then, art thou turned into the degenerate p...
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20-28 Notwithstanding all their advantages, Israel had become like
the wild vine that bears poisonous fruit. Men are often as much under
the power of their unbridled desires and their sinful lusts, a...
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A NOBLE VINE; a usual metaphor for the church, PSALMS 80:8,9, &c. SEE
POOLE ON "ISAIAH 5:1". The Hebrew is _Sorek_, and may refer to the
place or to the plant. With reference to the place, it may be t...
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Jeremiah 2:21 planted H5193 (H8804) vine H8321 seed H2233 quality H571
turned H2015 (H8738) plant H5494 alien...
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THEY HAD BROKEN FREE FROM YHWH TO WORSHIP FALSE GODS AND HAD THEREBY
BECOME DEFILED WITH A DEFILEMENT AND A DEGENERACY THAT THEY COULD NOT
REMOVE, WHILE STILL INCREDIBLY CLAIMING THAT THEY HAD NOT BRO...
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Jeremiah 2:20. For of old time I have broken thy yoke, and burst thy
bands; and thou saidst, I will not transgress; when upon every high
hill and under every green tree thou wanderest, playing the har...
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Jeremiah 2:1. Moreover the word of the LORD came to me, saying, Go and
cry in the ears of Jerusalem saying, Thus saith the LORD: I remember
thee, the kindness of thy youth, the love of thine espousals...
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CONTENTS: First message to backslidden Judah concerning their
ingratitude to God and wickedness against Him.
CHARACTERS: God, Jeremiah.
CONCLUSION: It is a great affront to God to neglect Him and for...
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Jeremiah 2:2. _I remember thee, the kindness of thy youth._ God now
addressed them, that he might do the same to the children as he had
done to the fathers, and rejoice over them as the bridegroom rej...
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_How then art thou turned into the degenerate plant._
SPIRITUAL DETERIORATION
A mysterious action is this of spiritual deterioration. It does not
set in with obvious energy all at once, so that in on...
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CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—1. CHRONOLOGY. Most probably in
thirteenth Josiah, quickly after his call. Dr. Dahler (Stratsbourg)
would interpose Chapter s 4, 5, 6; deferring this chapter till after...
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EXPOSITION
The second chapter forms the introduction of a group of discourses
(Jeremiah 2-6), which should be read together. It is called By Ewald
(and the position of the prophecy favors this view) t...
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Moreover the word of the LORD came to me, saying, Go and cry in the
ears of Jerusalem, saying, Thus saith the LORD (Jeremiah 2:1-2);
Now this is the first message that he has to deliver. As God is
cal...
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Deuteronomy 32:32; Deuteronomy 4:37; Exodus 15:17; Genesis 18:19;...
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A right seed — A right seed of true believers....