Ezequiel 17:9

9 Di: Así dijo el Señor DIOS: ¿Será prosperada? ¿No arrancará sus raíces, y destruirá su fruto, y se secará? Todas las hojas de su verdura se secará, y no con gran brazo, ni con mucha gente, arrancándola de sus raíces

Ezequiel 17:9 Meaning and Commentary

Ezekiel 17:9

Say thou, thus saith the Lord God
Tell Zedekiah and his people, in the name of the Lord, what will be the issue of his ingratitude and treachery to the king of Babylon, and his vain confidence in the king of Egypt: shall it prosper?
the vine, the kingdom of Judah, and Zedekiah the king of it; can it be thought that prosperity will attend such conduct as this? was is it ever known that persons guilty of such vices ever succeeded? shall he not pull up the roots thereof;
the first eagle, Nebuchadnezzar, being provoked by the rebellion of the king of Judah and his people; will he not come against them, and utterly destroy them, and root them up from being a people and a nation? and cut off the fruit thereof, that it wither?
the sons of the king, and of the nobles, and people of the land; so that the kingdom shall be ruined, and no hope left of its ever being restored again; which is the case of a vine when withered: it shall wither in all the leaves of her spring;
whereas it had been a springtime with this vine, under the influence of the king of Babylon, its leaves were green and flourishing; but now should wither, not as leaves do in autumn, which is to be expected, but in spring, which must be fatal; signifying, that in the midst of their prosperity, and when there was the greatest hope and expectation of a continuance and increase of it, utter ruin should come upon them: even without great power or many people to pluck it up by the roots
thereof;
signifying with what ease the king of Babylon would take Jerusalem, and the land of Judea, its king and its princes, and utterly destroy them; he would have no need of a large army, or to employ all his forces, a few, were sufficient to do it; even as it does not require many hands to pluck up, a vine by the roots, a single person is equal to it.

Ezequiel 17:9 In-Context

7 Y fue otra gran águila, de grandes alas y de muchas plumas; y he aquí que esta vid juntó cerca de ella sus raíces, y extendió hacia ella sus ramas, para ser regada por ella por los surcos de su plantío

8 En un buen campo, junto a muchas aguas fue plantada, para que hiciera ramas y llevara fruto, y para que fuera vid robusta

9 Di: Así dijo el Señor DIOS: ¿Será prosperada? ¿No arrancará sus raíces, y destruirá su fruto, y se secará? Todas las hojas de su verdura se secará, y no con gran brazo, ni con mucha gente, arrancándola de sus raíces

10 Y he aquí que plantada está ella, ¿será prosperada? ¿No se secará del todo cuando el viento solano la tocare? En los surcos de su verdor se secará

11 Y vino Palabra del SEÑOR a mí, diciendo