Ezekiel 19:10

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““‘Your mother was like a vine in your blood, planted by the waters. It was fruitful and full of branches by reason of many waters.”

— WEB

“Thy mother is like a vine in thy blood, planted by the waters: she was fruitful and full of branches by reason of many waters.”

— KJV

“Thy mother was like a vine, in thy blood, planted by the waters: it was fruitful and full of branches by reason of many waters.”

— ASV

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Ezekiel 19:2 "and say, ‘What was your mother? A lioness. She couched among lions, in the middle of the young lions she nourished her cubs."

Commentary

Jerusalem, the mother-city, is here represented by another similitude; she is a vine, and the princes are her branches. This comparison we had before, Eze 15:1. Jerusalem is as a vine; the Jewish nation is so: Like a vine in they blood (Eze 19:10), the blood-royal, like a vine set in blood and watered with blood, which contributes very much to the flourishing and fruitfulness of vines, as if the blood which had been shed had been designed for the fattening and improving of the soil, in such plenty was it shed; and for a time it seemed to have that effect, for she was fruitful and full of branches by reason of the waters, the many waters near which she was planted. Places of great wickedness may prosper for a while; and a vine set in blood may be full of branches. Jerusalem was full of able magistrates, men of sense, men of learning and experience, that were strong rods, branches of this vine of uncommon bulk and strength, or poles for the support of this vine, for such magistrates are. The boughs of this vine had grown to such maturity that they were fit to make white staves of for the sceptres of those that bore rule, Eze 19:11. And those are strong rods that are fit for sceptres, men of strong judgments and strong resolutions that are fit for magistrates.

— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary (public domain)

A new metaphor taken from the vine, the chief of the fruit-bearing trees, as the lion is of the beasts of prey (see Eze 17:6). in thy blood--"planted when thou wast in thy blood," that is, in thy very infancy; as in Eze 16:6, when thou hadst just come from the womb, and hadst not yet the blood washed from thee. The Jews from the first were planted in Canaan to take root there [CALVIN]. GROTIUS translates as the Margin, "in thy quietness," that is, in the period when Judah had not yet fallen into her present troubles. English Version is better. GLASSIUS explains it well, retaining the metaphor, which CALVIN'S explanation breaks, "in the blood of thy grapes," that is, in her full strength, as the red wine is the strength of the grape. Gen 49:11 is evidently alluded to. many waters--the well-watered land of Canaan (Deu 8:7-9).

— Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (public domain)

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