13 And now she is planted in the wilderness,
In a dry and thirsty land.

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13 Now it is planted in the desert,(A)
    in a dry and thirsty land.(B)

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Lest (A)I strip her naked
And expose her, as in the day she was (B)born,
And make her like a wilderness,
And set her like a dry land,
And slay her with (C)thirst.

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Otherwise I will strip(A) her naked
    and make her as bare as on the day she was born;(B)
I will make her like a desert,(C)
    turn her into a parched land,
    and slay her with thirst.

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10 ‘Your mother was (A)like a vine in your [a]bloodline,
Planted by the waters,
(B)Fruitful and full of branches
Because of many waters.

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 19:10 Lit. blood, so with MT, Syr., Vg.; LXX like a flower on a pomegranate tree; Tg. in your likeness

10 “‘Your mother was like a vine in your vineyard[a](A)
    planted by the water;(B)
it was fruitful and full of branches
    because of abundant water.(C)

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  1. Ezekiel 19:10 Two Hebrew manuscripts; most Hebrew manuscripts your blood

35 And I will bring you into the wilderness of the peoples, and there (A)I will plead My case with you face to face.

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35 I will bring you into the wilderness(A) of the nations and there, face to face, I will execute judgment(B) upon you.

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27 Then the king of Babylon struck them and put them to death at Riblah in the land of Hamath. Thus Judah was carried away captive from its own land.

28 (A)These are the people whom Nebuchadnezzar carried away captive: (B)in the seventh year, (C)three thousand and twenty-three Jews; 29 (D)in the eighteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar he carried away captive from Jerusalem eight hundred and thirty-two persons; 30 in the twenty-third year of Nebuchadnezzar, Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away captive of the Jews seven hundred and forty-five persons. All the persons were four thousand six hundred.

Jehoiachin Released from Prison(E)

31 (F)Now it came to pass in the thirty-seventh year of the captivity of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, on the twenty-fifth day of the month, that [a]Evil-Merodach king of Babylon, in the first year of his reign, (G)lifted[b] up the head of Jehoiachin king of Judah and brought him out of prison.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 52:31 Or Awil-Marduk; lit. The Man of Marduk
  2. Jeremiah 52:31 Showed favor to

27 There at Riblah,(A) in the land of Hamath, the king had them executed.

So Judah went into captivity, away(B) from her land. 28 This is the number of the people Nebuchadnezzar carried into exile:(C)

in the seventh year, 3,023 Jews;

29 in Nebuchadnezzar’s eighteenth year,

832 people from Jerusalem;

30 in his twenty-third year,

745 Jews taken into exile(D) by Nebuzaradan the commander of the imperial guard.

There were 4,600 people in all.(E)

Jehoiachin Released(F)

31 In the thirty-seventh year of the exile of Jehoiachin(G) king of Judah, in the year Awel-Marduk became king of Babylon, on the twenty-fifth day of the twelfth month, he released Jehoiachin king of Judah and freed him from prison.

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(A)God sets the solitary in families;
(B)He brings out those who are bound into prosperity;
But (C)the rebellious dwell in a dry land.

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God sets the lonely(A) in families,[a](B)
    he leads out the prisoners(C) with singing;
    but the rebellious live in a sun-scorched land.(D)

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 68:6 Or the desolate in a homeland

Joy in the Fellowship of God

A Psalm of David (A)when he was in the wilderness of Judah.

63 O God, You are my God;
Early will I seek You;
(B)My soul thirsts for You;
My flesh longs for You
In a dry and thirsty land
Where there is no water.

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Psalm 63[a]

A psalm of David. When he was in the Desert of Judah.

You, God, are my God,
    earnestly I seek you;
I thirst for you,(A)
    my whole being longs for you,
in a dry and parched land
    where there is no water.(B)

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  1. Psalm 63:1 In Hebrew texts 63:1-11 is numbered 63:2-12.

12 (A)Then Jehoiachin king of Judah, his mother, his servants, his princes, and his officers went out to the king of Babylon; and the king of Babylon, (B)in the eighth year of his reign, took him prisoner.

The Captivity of Jerusalem

13 (C)And he carried out from there all the treasures of the house of the Lord and the treasures of the king’s house, and he (D)cut in pieces all the articles of gold which Solomon king of Israel had made in the temple of the Lord, (E)as the Lord had said. 14 Also (F)he carried into captivity all Jerusalem: all the captains and all the mighty men of valor, (G)ten thousand captives, and (H)all the craftsmen and smiths. None remained except (I)the poorest people of the land. 15 And (J)he carried Jehoiachin captive to Babylon. The king’s mother, the king’s wives, his officers, and the mighty of the land he carried into captivity from Jerusalem to Babylon. 16 (K)All the valiant men, seven thousand, and craftsmen and smiths, one thousand, all who were strong and fit for war, these the king of Babylon brought captive to Babylon.

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12 Jehoiachin king of Judah, his mother, his attendants, his nobles and his officials all surrendered(A) to him.

In the eighth year of the reign of the king of Babylon, he took Jehoiachin prisoner. 13 As the Lord had declared,(B) Nebuchadnezzar removed the treasures(C) from the temple of the Lord and from the royal palace, and cut up the gold articles(D) that Solomon(E) king of Israel had made for the temple of the Lord. 14 He carried all Jerusalem into exile:(F) all the officers and fighting men,(G) and all the skilled workers and artisans—a total of ten thousand. Only the poorest(H) people of the land were left.

15 Nebuchadnezzar took Jehoiachin(I) captive to Babylon. He also took from Jerusalem to Babylon the king’s mother,(J) his wives, his officials and the prominent people(K) of the land. 16 The king of Babylon also deported to Babylon the entire force of seven thousand fighting men, strong and fit for war, and a thousand skilled workers and artisans.(L)

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47 (A)“Because you did not serve the Lord your God with joy and gladness of heart, (B)for the abundance of everything, 48 therefore you shall serve your enemies, whom the Lord will send against you, in (C)hunger, in thirst, in nakedness, and in need of everything; and He (D)will put a yoke of iron on your neck until He has destroyed you.

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47 Because you did not serve(A) the Lord your God joyfully and gladly(B) in the time of prosperity, 48 therefore in hunger and thirst,(C) in nakedness and dire poverty, you will serve the enemies the Lord sends against you. He will put an iron yoke(D) on your neck(E) until he has destroyed you.

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