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Jeremiah 2:21

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21You were like a good vine when I planted you.

You were a healthy plant.

Then how did you turn against me?

How did you become a bad, wild vine?

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ESVEnglish Standard Version

Yet I planted you a choice vine,

wholly of pure seed.

How then have you turned degenerate

and become a wild vine?

NIVNew International Version (2011)

I had planted you like a choice vine

of sound and reliable stock.

How then did you turn against me

into a corrupt, wild vine?

CSBChristian Standard Bible

I planted you, a choice vine

from the very best seed.

How then could you turn into

a degenerate, foreign vine?

NLTNew Living Translation

But I was the one who planted you,

choosing a vine of the purest stock—the very best.

How did you grow into this corrupt wild vine?

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

Yet I planted you as a choice vine,

all of it a seed of trustworthiness.

How then have you altered before me

into something that is degenerate, the foreign vine?

KJV 1900King James Version

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?