Ezekiel 19:10-14

A Lament for the Princes of Israel

10 Your mother was i like a vine in a vineyard 1
planted by the water,
j fruitful and full of branches
k by reason of abundant water.
 11 Its strong stems became
rulers' scepters;
it towered aloft
among the thick boughs; 2
it was seen in its height
with the mass of its branches.
 12 But the vine was plucked up in fury,
cast down to the ground;
l the east wind dried up its fruit;
they were stripped off and withered.
As for its strong stem,
fire consumed it.
 13 m Now it is planted in the wilderness,
in a dry and thirsty land.

14 n And fire has gone out from the stem of its shoots,
has consumed its fruit,
o so that there remains in it no strong stem,
no scepter for ruling.
This is p a lamentation and has become a lamentation.

  1. Cross References
    Ezekiel 15:6
    Therefore thus says the Lord God : Like the wood of the vine among the trees of the forest, which I have given to the fire for fuel, so have I given up the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
  2. Cross References
    Psalms 80:9
    You cleared the ground for it; it took deep root and filled the land.
  3. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 8:7
    For the Lord your God is bringing you into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and springs, flowing out in the valleys and hills.
  4. Cross References
    Ezekiel 17:10
    Behold, it is planted; will it thrive? Will it not utterly wither when the east wind strikes it - wither away on the bed where it sprouted?
    Hosea 13:15
    Though he may flourish among his brothers, the east wind, the wind of the Lord, shall come, rising from the wilderness, and his fountain shall dry up; his spring shall be parched; it shall strip his treasury of every precious thing.
  5. Cross References
    Ezekiel 1:1
    In the thirtieth year, in the fourth month, on the fifth day of the month, as I was among the exiles by the Chebar canal, the heavens were opened, and I saw visions of God.
    Hosea 2:3
    Lest I strip her naked and make her as in the day she was born, and make her like a wilderness, and make her like a parched land, and kill her with thirst.
    2 Kings 24:12 - 16
    And Jehoiachin the king of Judah gave himself up to the king of Babylon, himself and his mother and his servants and his officials and his palace officials. The king of Babylon took him prisoner in the eighth year of his reign
  6. Cross References
    2 Kings 24:20
    For because of the anger of the Lord it came to the point in Jerusalem and Judah that he cast them out from his presence. And Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.
    Ezekiel 17:15 - 19
    But he rebelled against him by sending his ambassadors to Egypt, that they might give him horses and a large army. Will he thrive? Can one escape who does such things? Can he break the covenant and yet escape?
  7. Cross References
    Ezekiel 19:11 - 12
    Its strong stems became rulers' scepters; it towered aloft among the thick boughs; it was seen in its height with the mass of its branches.
  8. Cross References
    Ezekiel 19:1
    And you, take up a lamentation for the princes of Israel.
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