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 and withered; the fire consumed them.
But she was plucked up in fury - not gradually withered. The sudden upturning of the state was designed to awaken the Jews out of their torpor, to see the hand of God in the national judgment.
The east wind dried up her fruits - (note, Ezekiel 17:10).