I had planted you like a choice vine from the very best seed. How could you turn yourself before Me into a rotten, wild vine? Cross References Exodus 15:17 You will bring them in and plant them on the mountain of Your inheritance--the place, O LORD, You have prepared for Your dwelling, the sanctuary, O Lord, Your hands have established. Psalm 44:2 With Your hand You drove out the nations and planted our fathers there; You crushed the peoples and cast them out. Psalm 80:8 You uprooted a vine from Egypt; You drove out the nations and transplanted it. Isaiah 5:2 He dug it up and cleared the stones and planted the finest vines. He built a watchtower in the middle and dug out a winepress as well. He waited for the vineyard to yield good grapes, but the fruit it produced was sour! Isaiah 5:4 What more could I have done for My vineyard than I already did for it? Why, when I expected sweet grapes, did it bring forth sour fruit? Isaiah 27:2 In that day: "Sing about a fruitful vineyard. Jeremiah 11:17 The LORD of Hosts, who planted you, has decreed disaster against you on account of the evil that the house of Israel and the house of Judah have brought upon themselves, provoking Me to anger by burning incense to Baal." Treasury of Scripture Yet I had planted you a noble vine, wholly a right seed: how then are you turned into the degenerate plant of a strange vine to me? yet I Exodus 15:17 Psalm 44:2 Psalm 80:8 wholly Genesis 18:19 Genesis 26:3-5 Genesis 32:28 into the degenerate Deuteronomy 32:32 Isaiah 1:21 Isaiah 5:4 |