Ezekiel 19:7-14

7 'He destroyed their fortified towers And laid waste their cities; And the land and its fullness were appalled Because of the sound of his roaring.

8 'Then ¹nations set against him On every side from their provinces, And they spread their net over him; He was captured in their pit.

9 '²They put him in a cage with hooks And ³brought him to the king of Babylon; They brought him in hunting nets So that his voice would be heard no more On the mountains of Israel.

10 'Your mother was ⁴like a vine in your vineyard, Planted by the waters; It was fruitful and full of branches Because of abundant waters.

11 'And it had ⁵strong branches fit for scepters of rulers, And its ⁶height was raised above * the clouds So that it was seen in its height with the mass of its branches.

12 'But it was ⁷plucked up in fury; It was ⁸cast down to the ground; And the ⁹east wind dried up its fruit. Its ¹⁰strong branch was torn off So that it withered; The fire consumed it.

13 'And now it is planted in the ¹¹wilderness, In a dry and thirsty land.

14 'And ¹²fire has gone out from its branch; It has consumed its shoots and fruit, So that there is not in it a strong branch, A scepter to rule.' " This is a lamentation, and has become a lamentation.

Ezekiel 19:7-14 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO EZEKIEL 19

The subject matter of this chapter is a lamentation for the princes and people of the Jews, on account of what had already befallen them, and what was yet to come, Eze 19:1. The mother of the princes is compared to a lioness, and they to lions; who, one after another, were taken and carried captive, Eze 19:2-9; again, their mother is compared to a vine, and they to branches and rods for sceptres, destroyed by an east wind, and consumed by fire, Eze 19:10-14.

Cross References

• 1. 2 Kings 24:11
• 2. 2 Chronicles 36:6
• 3. 2 Kings 24:15
• 4. Psalms 80:8-11
• 5. Psalms 80:15
• 6. Ezekiel 31:3
• 7. Jeremiah 31:28
• 8. Lamentations 2:1; Ezekiel 28:17
• 9. Ezekiel 17:10; Hosea 13:15
• 10. Isaiah 27:11; Ezekiel 19:11
• 11. 2 Kings 24:12-16; Ezekiel 19:10; Ezekiel 20:35; Hosea 2:3
• 12. Ezekiel 15:4; Ezekiel 20:47, 48

Footnotes

• [a] So Targum; M.T. "knew"
• [b] Or "widows"
• [c] So with some ancient mss; M.T. "blood"
• [d] Lit "rods of strength"
• [e] Lit "rods of her strength"
• [f] So Gr; M.T. "they were"
• [g] So Gr; M.T. "they"
• [h] Lit "rod of strength"