Ezekiel 19:10
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New International Version (©2011)
"'Your mother was like a vine in your vineyard planted by the water; it was fruitful and full of branches because of abundant water.

New Living Translation (©2007)
"Your mother was like a vine planted by the water's edge. It had lush, green foliage because of the abundant water.

English Standard Version (©2001)
Your mother was like a vine in a vineyard planted by the water, fruitful and full of branches by reason of abundant water.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
'Your mother was like a vine in your vineyard, Planted by the waters; It was fruitful and full of branches Because of abundant waters.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
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.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
Your mother was like a vine in your vineyard, planted by the water; it was fruitful and full of branches because of plentiful waters.

International Standard Version (©2012)
Your mother was like a vine entwining a pomegranate, planted by water, full of fruit, and full of branches because it had been watered generously.

NET Bible (©2006)
"'Your mother was like a vine in your vineyard, planted by water. It was fruitful and full of branches because it was well-watered.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
Your mother was like a grapevine that was planted near water. It had a lot of fruit and many branches because there was plenty of water.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
Your mother is like a vine in your vineyard, planted by the waters: she was fruitful and full of branches by reason of many waters.

American King James Version
Your mother is like a vine in your blood, planted by the waters: she was fruitful and full of branches by reason of many waters.

American Standard Version
Thy mother was like a vine, in thy blood, planted by the waters: it was fruitful and full of branches by reason of many waters.

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

Darby Bible Translation
Thy mother was as a vine, in thy rest, planted by the waters: it was fruitful and full of branches by reason of many waters.

English Revised Version
Thy mother was like a vine, in thy blood, planted by the waters: she was fruitful and full of branches by reason of many waters.

Webster's Bible Translation
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.

World English Bible
Your mother was like a vine, in your blood, planted by the waters: it was fruitful and full of branches by reason of many waters.

Young's Literal Translation
Thy mother is as a vine in thy blood by waters planted, Fruitful and full of boughs it hath been, Because of many waters.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

19:10-14 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 chosen people of God throughout all generations.

Pulpit Commentary

Verse 10. - Another parable comes close upon the heels of the first. Thy mother; sc. Judah or Jerusalem, as the mother of Jehoiachin, who is still in Ezekiel's thoughts, and is addressed by him. In thy blood. (For the comparison of the vine, see Ezekiel 17:6.) No satisfactory meaning can be got out of the words, the nearest being "in thy life, thy freshness," the sap of the vine being thought of as its blood; and critics have been driven to conjectural readings or renderings. The Jewish interpreters, Targum, Rashi, Kimchi, and margin of Revised Version, give, "in thy likeness," sc. "like thee;" Keil, "in thy repose," sc. in the period of quiet prosperity. Hitzig boldly adopts a reading which gives, "a vine climbing on the pomegranate;" but (?). The many waters reproduce the imagery of Ezekiel 17:5.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Thy mother is like a vine in thy blood,.... Another simile is here made use of, relating to the same persons; the same that were compared to a lioness are here compared to a vine, as the people of the Jews frequently are, Psalm 80:8; the same person is here addressed, the then reigning prince, Zedekiah, whose mother, the Jewish people, from whence he sprung, had been in times past, and still was, like a vine; and especially with respect to his blood, the royal family from, chore he descended: the allusion is to the use of blood laid to the roots of vines, by which they became more fruitful. It may have regard; as Calvin thinks, to the original of the Jewish nation, who, when in their blood, or as soon as they were born, that is, as soon as they became a nation, were at first like a flourishing vine. Some render the words, "in thy likeness"; so Jarchi, Kimchi, and Ben Melech; to which the Targum agrees,

"the congregation of Israel, when it did according to the law, was like to a vine, &c.''

planted by the waters; for in those hot countries vines required water, and thrived the better for bring near to them, or for being in watery places; this may denote the many privileges, blessings, laws, and ordinances, which were for the advantage of the Jewish people; both in their civil and ecclesiastical state:

she was fruitful and full of branches, by reason of many waters; grew populous, rich, and wealthy.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

10. 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 the period when Judah had not yet fallen into her present troubles. English Version is better. Glassius explains it well, retaining the metaphor, which Calvin's explanation breaks, "in the blood of thy grapes," that is, in her full strength, as the red wine is the strength of the grape. Ge 49:11 is evidently alluded to.

many waters—the well-watered land of Canaan (De 8:7-9).

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Kingly Power Abused
…9And they put him in ward in chains, and brought him to the king of Babylon: they brought him into holds, that his voice should no more be heard on the mountains of Israel. 10Your mother is like a vine in your blood, planted by the waters: she was fruitful and full of branches by reason of many waters. 11And she had strong rods for the scepters of them that bore rule, and her stature was exalted among the thick branches, and she appeared in her height with the multitude of her branches. …

John 15:1 "I am the true vine, and my Father is the gardener.
Psalm 1:3 That person is like a tree planted by streams of water, which yields its fruit in season and whose leaf does not wither-- whatever they do prospers.
Psalm 80:8 You transplanted a vine from Egypt; you drove out the nations and planted it.
Psalm 128:3 Your wife will be like a fruitful vine within your house; your children will be like olive shoots around your table.
Ezekiel 19:13 Now it is planted in the desert, in a dry and thirsty land.