Ezekiel 19:13 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Bible Comments

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 generally, the vine is said to be 'transplanted' as regards God's mercy to the remnant in Babylon.

In a dry and thirsty ground. Chaldea was well watered and fertile; but it is the condition of the captive people, not that of the land which is referred to.

Ezekiel 19:13

13 And now she is planted in the wilderness, in a dry and thirsty ground.