Ezekiel 19:10

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. THY MOTHER IS LIKE A VINE IN THY BLOOD - a new metaphor, taken from the vine, the chief of the fruit-bearing trees, as the lion is of the beasts of prey (see ). IN THY BLOOD - `planted when thou wast in thy blood' - i:e., in thy very infancy; as in , when thou hadst just come forth 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 margin, 'in thy quietness' - i:e., in the period when Judah had not yet fallen into her present troubles. The English version is better. Glassius explains it well, retaining the metaphor, which Calv...

Here Ezekiel places before our eyes the twofold state of the Jews, that they may acknowledge themselves fallen into extreme misery, because they had provoked God. For they did not sufficiently consider their present state, unless the former dignity and happiness with which they were adorned was brought to their remembrance. Now, in some way they had grown callous to all evils: although scarcely anything remained safe but Jerusalem, they did not look back, but were just as wanton as when their affairs were prosperous. Since they had not yet been humbled by so many slaughters, the Prophet, therefore, on the one hand, reminds them of their former condition, and then shows them how they had fallen. This comparison, then, thought to prick their consciences sharply, that they may at length feel that God was hostile to them. We now understand the Prophet’s intention in saying, that _the people’...

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....

Verse Ezekiel 19:10. _THY 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 כרמך _carmecha, thy vineyard_, instead of בדמך _bedamecha, in thy blood_. Here is no change but a _resh_ for a _daleth_. This reading is supported by one of _Kennicott's_ and one of _De Rossi's_ MSS.: "Thy mother...

THY 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 king and princes of the blood royal....

EXPOSITION EZEKIEL 19:1 The two sections of this chapter—Ezekiel 19:1, Ezekiel 19:10 -are respectively two parables of the same type as that of Ezekiel 2:10. The former telling nearly the same story under a different imagery, the latter a reproduction of the same imagery, with a slightly different application. Lamentation. The same word as that used in Ezekiel 2:10. The whole chapter finds a parallel in Jeremiah's review of Josiah's successors ...

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, Psalms 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...

JUDAH THE VINE. The figure changes, as in Genesis 49:8, from lion to vine, and the king whose destiny is foreshadowed is this time Zedekiah. Judah is described as a fruitful vine, one of whose mighty branches (Zedekiah) became a royal sceptre (Ezekiel 19:11). But the vine was violently uprooted, hurled to the ground, withered by the fury of the scorching east wind a plain allusion to the destruction of Judah by Babylon. It is to be noted, however, that the fire which consumed her issued from one of her own branches a pointed allusion to the treachery of Zedekiah, at which Ezekiel has already expressed his horror (Ezekiel 17:19). Thus no more than his predecessors will Zedekiah save the state: he and it will perish.

THY MOTHER. Another _Simile_. See the Structure (W, p. 1130). IN THY BLOOD: or, in thy vineyard (according to Dr. C. D. Ginsburg). WATERS. _Reference to_ Pentateuch (Deuteronomy 8:7). App-92....

_is like a vine_ WAS like, in contrast to "but now she is planted in the wilderness" (Ezekiel 19:13). The "prince" of Israel is addressed, not any individual prince, but the kingship or royalty by whomsoever represented. The mother, as before, is the people or nationality of Israel. _in thy blood_ R.V. marg. refers to ch. Ezekiel 16:6, not wisely. LXX. read "on a pomegranate" (_brmn_for _bdmk_). Ew. suggests: "a vine of Carmel," Ges. "a vine of thy vineyard;" Corn. as usual "zu streichen." Others: "in thy likeness" "in thy thought," "in thy rest" all without sense. More tolerable: "in her height" (rumah), Ezekiel 19:11....