Yea, behold, [being] planted, shall it prosper? shall it not utterly wither, when the east wind toucheth it? it shall wither in the furrows where it grew.
Ver. 10. Shall it not utterly wither?] As Jonah's gourd did when smitten with a worm; as Phocas's wall came down with a witness, because built upon mines of gunpowder - sin lay at the bottom, as one told him - which, being once fired, would blow up all.
When the east wind toucheth it.] Which is very hurtful to vines, saith, Columella. As all creatures, so the winds are God's agents; as to purge the air - Rupertus calleth them the besoms of the air - and to refresh men's spirits, so to execute many of God's judgments upon his rebels, as here. Aliorum perditio nostra sit cautio; Let other men's destruction be our instruction.
It shall wither in the furrows where it grew,] i.e., In Egypt, where it rained not, but was all watered by furrows drawn from Nile, to run into all their fields. Here this vine should thrive, one would think, if anywhere - viz., in moist and fat furrows but it could not, because blasted by God's curse.