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10 Your mother was like a vine in a vineyard[a]
    transplanted by the water,
fruitful and full of branches
    from abundant water.(A)
11 Its strongest stem became
    a ruler’s scepter;[b]
it towered aloft
    among the clouds;
it stood out in its height
    with its mass of branches.(B)
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.(C)
13 Now it is transplanted into the wilderness,
    into a dry and thirsty land.(D)
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 scepter for ruling.

This is a lamentation, and it is used as a lamentation.(E)

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Footnotes

  1. 19.10 Cn: Heb in your blood
  2. 19.11 Heb Its strongest stems became rulers’ scepters

10 Your mother was like the vine in your vineyard;[a]
    planted fruitfully[b] beside water,
and it was full of branches
    from many waters.[c]
11 And she produced branches of strength[d]
    to[e] scepters of rulers;
its height became tall
    between[f] thick foliage,
and it was seen[g] because of its tallness
    among the abundance of its branches.
12 But it was uprooted in rage;
    it was thrown to the earth,
and the east wind dried up its fruit;
    they were stripped off,
and its strong branch dried up;
    fire consumed it.
13 And now it is planted in the desert,
    in a dry and thirsty land.[h]
14 And so fire has gone out from the stem of its branches;
    its fruit it has consumed,
and there was not in it a strong branch,[i]
    a scepter for ruling.’”

This is a lament, and it will be used as a lament.[j]

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 19:10 Or “in the vineyard”
  2. Ezekiel 19:10 Literally “fruitful”
  3. Ezekiel 19:10 Or “from waters abundant/many”
  4. Ezekiel 19:11 Literally “they became to her branches/rods of strength”
  5. Ezekiel 19:11 Or “for”
  6. Ezekiel 19:11 Or “among”
  7. Ezekiel 19:11 Or “visible”
  8. Ezekiel 19:13 Literally “a land of dryness and thirst”
  9. Ezekiel 19:14 Literally “a branch of strength”
  10. Ezekiel 19:14 Literally “she is for a lament”