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?
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Gill's Exposition
For though thou wash thee with nitre,.... The word "nitre", is only used in this place and in Pro 25:20 and it is hard to say what it is. Kimchi and Ben Melech observe, that some say it is what is…
Barnes' Notes
A noble vine - Properly, a Sorek vine (see Isa 5:2), which produced a red wine Pro 23:31, and had a lasting reputation Gen 49:11. A right seed - literally, “a seed of truth,” i. e., true, genuine…
In these verses the prophet goes on with his charge against this backsliding people. Observe here,
I. The sin itself that he charges them with - idolatry, that great provocation which they were so…
Cambridge Bible
The fault did not lie in Jehovah's planting, but in Israel's perversity. Hos 10:1 has the same illustration. Jeremiah has probably a reminiscence also of Isa 5:1 ff., where, however, Israel is not as…
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