Ezekiel 19:10

Ezekiel 19:10 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)Thy mother is like a vine in thy blood, planted by the waters: she was fruitful and full of branches by reason of many waters.
• New International Version (NIV)“ ‘Your mother was like a vine in your vineyard planted by the water; it was fruitful and full of branches because of abundant water.
• English Standard Version (ESV)Your mother was like a vine in a vineyard planted by the water, fruitful and full of branches by reason of abundant water.
• New King James Version (NKJV)‘Your mother was like a vine in your bloodline, Planted by the waters, Fruitful and full of branches Because of many waters.

Context of Ezekiel 19:10

8The nations gathered against him on every side from the provinces. They spread their net over him. He was caught in their pit. 9They put him in a cage with hooks and brought him to the king of Babylon. They brought him in hunting nets. So his roar was no longer heard on the mountains of Israel. “Your mother was like a vine in your blood, planted by the water. It was fruitful and full of branches because of abundant water. 11Its strong rods became rulers’ scepters. Its height was exalted above the clouds. It was seen in its height with the mass of its branches. 12But it was uprooted in fury. It was cast down to the ground. The east wind dried up its fruit. Its strong branches were broken off and dried up—fire consumed it.

Ezekiel 19:10 word by word

אִמְּךָ֥ כַגֶּ֛פֶן בְּדָמְךָ֖ עַל־מַ֣יִם שְׁתוּלָ֑ה פֹּֽרִיָּה֙ וַֽעֲנֵפָ֔ה הָיְתָ֖ה מִמַּ֥יִם רַבִּֽים׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• Thy motherאֵם'êm · motherH517
• like a vineגֶּ֫פֶןgephen · vineH1612
• in thy bloodדָּםdâm · bloodH1818
• plantedשָׁתַלshâthal · to transplantH8362
• by the watersמַיmayim · waterH4325
• she was fruitfulפָּרָהpârâh · be fruitfulH6509
• and full of branchesעָנֵף‛ânêph · thickly branchedH6058
• by reason of manyרַבrab · manyH7227

Cross-references for Ezekiel 19:10

• Ezekiel 19:2and say: ‘What was your mother? A lioness! Among lions she couched, among young lions she reared her cubs.
• Hosea 2:2Then the descendants of Judah and descendants of Israel will be gathered together. They will appoint themselves one head And they will go up from the land. For the day of Jezreel will be great.
• Ezekiel 15:2“Son of man, how can the wood of a vine be better than the branch of any tree that is among the trees of the forest?
• Ezekiel 17:6Then it sprouted and became a low, spreading vine, with its branches turned toward him, but its roots grew under him. So it became a vine, produced branches and sent out shoots.
• Isaiah 5:1Let me sing of my beloved, a song of my beloved, about His vineyard. My beloved had a vineyard in a very fertile hill.
• Matthew 21:33“Listen to another parable. There was a master of a household who planted a vineyard. He put a hedge around it, dug a winepress in it, and built a tower. Then He leased it to some tenant farmers and went on a journey.
• Numbers 24:6Like valleys they are spread out, like gardens beside a river, like aloes planted by Adonai, like cedars beside the waters.
• Deuteronomy 8:7For Adonai your God is bringing you into a good land—a land of wadis with water, of springs and fountains flowing out in the valleys and hills,
• Psalms 80:8Elohei-Tzva’ot, restore us, and make Your face shine, and we will be saved.
• Psalms 89:25My faithfulness and My lovingkindness will be with him, and by My Name his horn will be exalted.

Commentaries on Ezekiel 19:10

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 10Thy mother (Jerusalem) is like a vine in thy blood - Of this expression I know not what to make. Some think the meaning is "A vine planted by the waters to produce the blood of the grape." See Deuteronomy 32:14. Others, for בדמך bedamecha, in thy blood, would read ברמון berimmon, in or at a pomegranate; like a vine planted by or beside a pomegranate-tree, by which it was to be supported. And so the Septuagint and Arabic appear to have read. Calmet reads…Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 10Thy mother - Judah or Jerusalem. Jehoiachin is still addressed. In thy blood - Blood is equivalent to “life” Genesis 9:4. The clause is equivalent to “Thy mother is a vine, living in thy blood,” i. e., in the life of thee and of thy children. The excellency of a vine is in her fruitful branches; the glory of a mother in her noble children. Jeremiah was to write Jehoiachin childless (see the note at Jeremiah 22:30); Ezekiel here takes a general view of the…Read the comment
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 10-14Verses 10-14 Jerusalem was a vine, flourishing and fruitful. This vine is now destroyed, though not plucked up by the roots. She has by wickedness made herself like tinder to the sparks of God's wrath, so that her own branches serve as fuel to burn her. Blessed be God, one Branch of the vine here alluded to, is not only become a strong rod for the sceptre of those that rule, but is Himself the true and living Vine. This shall be for a rejoicing to all the…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 10The vine clearly represents Judah, whom the Lord had planted and cared for in the best possible conditions.Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1010. A new metaphor taken from the vine, the chief of the fruit-bearing trees, as the lion is of the beasts of prey (see Eze 17:6). in thy blood--"planted when thou wast in thy blood," that is, in thy very infancy; as in Eze 16:6, when thou hadst just come from the womb, and hadst not yet the blood washed from thee. The Jews from the first were planted in Canaan to take root there [Calvin]. Grotius translates as the Margin, "in thy quietness," that is, in…Read the comment

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Commentaries on Ezekiel 19

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings