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Selected Verse: Jeremiah 11:17 - King James
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| Jer 11:17 |
King James |
For the LORD of hosts, that planted thee, hath pronounced evil against thee, for the evil of the house of Israel and of the house of Judah, which they have done against themselves to provoke me to anger in offering incense unto Baal. |
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| A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
that planted thee-- (Jer 2:21; Isa 5:2).
against themselves--The sinner's sin is to his own hurt (see on Jer 7:19). |
19 Do they provoke me to anger? saith the LORD: do they not provoke themselves to the confusion of their own faces?
2 And he fenced it, and gathered out the stones thereof, and planted it with the choicest vine, and built a tower in the midst of it, and also made a winepress therein: and he looked that it should bring forth grapes, and it brought forth wild grapes.
21 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?