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 Ezekiel 17:6).
In thy blood - `planted when thou wast in thy blood' - i:e., in thy very infancy; as in Ezekiel 16:6, 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 Calvin's explanation breaks, 'in the blood of thy grapes' - i:e., in her full strength, as the red wine is the strength of the grape: Genesis 49:11 is evidently alluded to.
She was fruitful ... by reason of many waters - the well-watered land of Canaan (Deuteronomy 8:7-9).