Ezekiel 19:10-14

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

¹⁰Thy mother is like a vine in thy blood planted by the water: her fruit and her branches have grown out of many waters.

¹¹And she hath strong rods to make sceptres for them that bear rule, and her stature was exalted among the branches: and she saw her height in the multitude of her branches.

¹²But she was plucked up in wrath, and cast on the ground, and the burning wind dried up her fruit: her strong rods are withered, and dried up: the fire hath devoured her.

¹³And now she is transplanted into the desert, in a land not passable, and dry.

¹⁴And a fire is gone out from a rod of her branches, which hath devoured her fruit: so that she now hath no strong rod, to be a sceptre of rulers. This is a lamentation, and it shall be for a lamentation.

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Ezekiel 19:10-14

New International Version

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)
¹¹Its branches were strong,
    fit for a ruler’s scepter.
It towered high
    above the thick foliage,
conspicuous for its height
    and for its many branches.^(D)
¹²But it was uprooted^(E) in fury
    and thrown to the ground.
The east wind^(F) made it shrivel,
    it was stripped of its fruit;
its strong branches withered
    and fire consumed them.^(G)
¹³Now it is planted in the desert,^(H)
    in a dry and thirsty land.^(I)
¹⁴Fire spread from one of its main^[b] branches
    and consumed^(J) its fruit.
No strong branch is left on it
    fit for a ruler’s scepter.’^(K)