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.
Ver. 10. Thy mother is like a vine in thy blood.] The same lamentation is here continued, though under another parable - viz., of a wasted vine. Jerusalem was once a generous fruitful spreading vine. It began to be so again in some sort under Zedekiah, if he could have been contented. See on Ezekiel 17:5; Ezekiel 17:8 .