Ezekiel 19:10-14

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition

¹⁰ Your mother was like a vine in a vineyard^[a]
    transplanted by the water,
fruitful and full of branches
    from abundant water.
¹¹ Its strongest stem became
    a ruler’s sceptre;^[b]
it towered aloft
    among the thick boughs;
it stood out in its height
    with its mass of branches.
¹² But it was plucked up in fury,
    cast down to the ground;
the east wind dried it up;
    its fruit was stripped off,
its strong stem was withered;
    the fire consumed it.
¹³ Now it is transplanted into the wilderness,
    into a dry and thirsty land.
¹⁴ And fire has gone out from its stem,
    has consumed its branches and fruit,
so that there remains in it no strong stem,
    no sceptre for ruling.