21 Yet I had planted thee a noble vine, whose [a]plants were all natural: how then art thou turned unto me into the plants of a strange vine?

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 2:21 Hebrew, seed was all true.

21 I had planted(A) you like a choice vine(B)
    of sound and reliable stock.
How then did you turn against me
    into a corrupt,(C) wild vine?

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33 [a]Hear another parable, There was a certain householder, (A)which planted a vineyard, and hedged it round about, and made a winepress therein, and [b]built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and went into a strange country.

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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 21:33 Those men oftentimes are the cruelest enemies of the Church, to whose fidelity it is committed: But the vocation of God, is neither tied to time, place, nor person.
  2. Matthew 21:33 Made the place strong: For a tower is the strongest place of a wall.

The Parable of the Tenants(A)

33 “Listen to another parable: There was a landowner who planted(B) a vineyard. He put a wall around it, dug a winepress in it and built a watchtower.(C) Then he rented the vineyard to some farmers and moved to another place.(D)

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