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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”

10 ‘Your mother was like a vine
    entwining a pomegranate,[a]
planted by water, full of fruit,
    and full of branches
        because it had been watered generously.
11 Strong were its boughs,
    suitable for use in the scepter of a ruler.
It reached to the clouds,
    noticeable because of its height
        and its abundant branches.
12 Yet in anger it was uprooted
    and cast down to the earth.
An east wind desiccated its fruit;
    its strong branches broke off and withered,
        and a fire consumed them.
13 Now it is planted in the desert,
    in a dry and thirsty land!
14 Fire had burned through its branches,
    consuming its shoots and fruits.
No strong branches remain in it,
    and there is no scepter to rule!’

“This is a lamentation, and it is to be used in mourning.”

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 19:10 So LXX; MT reads in your blood, misreading the Heb. a pomegranate