“ And now she is planted in the wilderness, in a dry and thirsty ground. ”
Judah the Vine. The figure changes, as in Genesis 49:8-12 , 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...
now , &c. Referring to Jeconiah and Ezekiel's own days (1, 3; and 2 Kings 24:12-16 ).
The Prophet seems here inconsistent with himself, since these two clauses are openly at variance, that the vine was not, only withered, but burnt up, and yet planted in a desert place; for if i...
And now she is planted in the wilderness, in a dry and thirsty ground. And now she is planted in the wilderness - In the land of Chaldea, whither the people have been carried captives; and which, c...
And now she is planted in the wilderness— Or in Judaea itself, which is made a wilderness. Houbigant. Other commentators suppose, that the prophet by this expression marks out the state of the Jewi...
And now she is planted in the wilderness, in a dry and thirsty ground. Now she is planted in the wilderness. "Planted" - i:e., transplanted. Though already "dried up," in regard to the nation...
A Lament for the Royal House of Judah This chapter is a poem in which the measure used for a dirge or elegy is more or less traceable throughout. It describes first a lioness, two of whose whelps...
In a dry and thirsty ground. — Such was Babylon to Israel in its national relations, and even after the return from the exile the Jews never rose again to much importance among the nations of the e...
THE END OF THE MONARCHY Ezekiel 12:1-15 ; Ezekiel 17:1-24 ; Ezekiel 19:1-14 IN spite of the interest excited by Ezekiel's prophetic appearances, the exiles still received his prediction of th...
The last section in the prophet's revelation of the righteousness of reprobation consists of his lament over the fallen princes of Judah. He first referred to Jehoahaz, the son and successor of Josia...
The Prophet here useth another figure similar to the one adopted in Ezekiel 15:1 . The former prosperity of Jerusalem is elegantly represented, as a vine planted in a fruitful place by the rivers of...
And now she [is] planted in the wilderness ,.... In the land of Babylon, which though a very fruitful country, yet, because of the hardships and miseries which the Jews were exposed unto in it, was...
And now she [is] planted in the wilderness, in a dry and thirsty ground. Ver. 13. And now she is planted in a wilderness. ] Babylon was no wilderness, but fruitful beyond credulity, a But the po...
Thy mother is like a vine Here another similitude is made use of, and the Jewish nation is compared, as it frequently is in other places, to a vine. In thy blood So the Hebrew and Vulgate; but th...
The Fall of the Royal Family. B. C. 593. 10 Thy mother is like a vine in thy blood,...
And now; at this present time. She is planted; but, alas! how unlike what she was! a brand pulled out of the burnings, a few of the branches of the last pruning, or a few smaller roots taken up b...
“But she was plucked up in fury, she was cast down to the ground, And the east wind dried up her fruit, Her strong rods were broken off and withered, The fire consumed them. And now she is plante...
EXEGETICAL NOTES.— Ezekiel 19:10-14 . The prophet laments for the destruction of the kingdom, and banishment of the people, under the parable of a wasted vine. Ezekiel 19:10 . “Like a vine in thy...
Ezekiel 19:2 . Thy mother was a lioness she brought up one of her whelps; it became a young lion. These words are cited from Jacob's testamentary benedictions, in which Judah is called a lion's wh...
EXPOSITION Ezekiel 19:1 The two sections of this chapter— Ezekiel 19:1-26 , Ezekiel 19:10-26 -are respectively two parables of the same type as that of Ezekiel 2:10 . The former tellin...
Concerning the Mother of Kings
Deuteronomy 28:47 ; Deuteronomy 28:48 ; Ezekiel 19:10 ; Hosea 2:3 ; Jeremiah 52:27-31 ; Psalms 63:1 ; Psalms 68:6
She — A few of the branches of the last pruning. In the wilderness — Tho' Babylon was in a very fruitful place, yet the cruelty of the Babylonians, made it to the Jews as terrible as a wilderness.