Ezekiel 19 · Verse 10

Ezekiel 19:10

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.
Ezekiel 19:10, King James Version

Ezekiel 19:10 in other translations

BSBYour mother was like a vine in your vineyard, planted by the water; it was fruitful and full of branches because of the abundant waters.
WEB“‘Your mother was like a vine in your blood, planted by the waters. It was fruitful and full of branches by reason of many waters.
ASVThy mother was like a vine, in thy blood, planted by the waters: it was fruitful and full of branches by reason of many waters.
YLTThy mother is as a vine in thy blood by waters planted, Fruitful and full of boughs it hath been, Because of many waters.
DARBYThy mother was as a vine, in thy rest, planted by the waters: it was fruitful and full of branches by reason of many waters.
BBEYour mother was in comparison like a vine, planted by the waters: she was fertile and full of branches because of the great waters.
WebsterThy mother is like a vine in thy blood, planted by the waters: she was fruitful and full of branches by reason of many waters.

What does Ezekiel 19:10 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
10. A new metaphor taken from the vine, the chief of the fruit-bearing trees, as the lion is of the beasts of prey (see Eze 17:6). in thy blood--"planted when thou wast in thy blood," that is, in thy very infancy; as in Eze 16:6, when thou hadst just come 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 the Margin, "in thy quietness," that is, in the period when Judah had not yet fallen into her present troubles. English Version is better. Glassius explains it well, retaining the metaphor, which Calvin's explanation breaks, "in the blood of thy grapes," that is, in her full strength, as the red wine is the strength of the grape. Ge 49:11 is evidently alluded to. many waters--the well-watered land of Canaan (De 8:7-9).

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 10 Thy mother (Jerusalem) is like a vine in thy blood - Of this expression I know not what to make. Some think the meaning is "A vine planted by the waters to produce the blood of the grape." See Deu 32:14. Others, for בדמך bedamecha, in thy blood, would read ברמון berimmon, in or at a pomegranate; like a vine planted by or beside a pomegranate-tree, by which it was to be supported. And so the Septuagint and Arabic appear to have read. Calmet reads כרמך carmecha, thy vineyard, instead of בדמך bedamecha, in thy blood. Here is no change but a ר resh for a ד daleth. This reading is supported by one of Kennicott's and one of De Rossi's MSS.: "Thy mother is like a vine in thy vineyard, planted by the waters." Though this is rather an unusual construction yet it seems the best emendation. Of the textual reading no sense can be made. There is a corruption somewhere. Full on branches - Many princes. See next verse.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Ezekiel 19:10-14
Jerusalem was a vine, flourishing and fruitful. This vine is now destroyed, though not plucked up by the roots. She has by wickedness made herself like tinder to the sparks of God's wrath, so that her own branches serve as fuel to burn her. Blessed be God, one Branch of the vine here alluded to, is not only become a strong rod for the sceptre of those that rule, but is Himself the true and living Vine. This shall be for a rejoicing to all the chosen people of God throughout all generations.

Matthew Henry, 1706 · public domain

Ezekiel 19:10 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

אִמְּךָ֥'i.me.Khamother yourH517
כַגֶּ֛פֶןkha.Ge.fenlike <the> vineH1612
בְּדָמְךָ֖be.da.me.Khain blood yourH1818
עַל\־'al-atH5921
מַ֣יִםMa.yimwaterH4325
שְׁתוּלָ֑הshe.tu.LahplantedH8362
פֹּֽרִיָּה֙po.ri.YahfruitfulH6509
וַֽעֲנֵפָ֔הva.'a.ne.Fahand full of branchesH6058
הָיְתָ֖הha.ye.Tahit wasH1961
מִמַּ֥יִםmi.Ma.yimfrom watersH4325
רַבִּֽים\׃ra.BimmanyH7227

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Ezekiel 19:10

  • Psalms 80:8-11

    Thou hast brought a vine out of Egypt: thou hast cast out the heathen, and planted it. Thou preparedst room before it, and didst cause it to take deep root, and it filled the land. The hills were covered with the shadow of it, and the boughs thereof were like the goodly cedars. She sent out her boughs unto the sea, and her branches unto the river.

  • Deuteronomy 8:7

    For the Lord thy God bringeth thee into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and depths that spring out of valleys and hills;

  • Matthew 21:33-41

    Hear another parable: There was a certain householder, which planted a vineyard, and hedged it round about, and digged a winepress in it, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and went into a far country: And when the time of the fruit drew near, he sent his servants to the husbandmen, that they might receive the fruits of it. And the husbandmen took his servants, and beat one, and killed another, and stoned another. Again, he sent other servants more than the first: and they did unto them likewise. …

  • Numbers 24:6-7

    As the valleys are they spread forth, as gardens by the river’s side, as the trees of lign aloes which the Lord hath planted, and as cedar trees beside the waters. He shall pour the water out of his buckets, and his seed shall be in many waters, and his king shall be higher than Agag, and his kingdom shall be exalted.

  • Psalms 89:25-29

    I will set his hand also in the sea, and his right hand in the rivers. He shall cry unto me, Thou art my father, my God, and the rock of my salvation. Also I will make him my firstborn, higher than the kings of the earth. My mercy will I keep for him for evermore, and my covenant shall stand fast with him. …

  • Deuteronomy 8:9

    A land wherein thou shalt eat bread without scarceness, thou shalt not lack any thing in it; a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills thou mayest dig brass.

  • Ezekiel 19:2

    And say, What is thy mother? A lioness: she lay down among lions, she nourished her whelps among young lions.

  • Ezekiel 17:6

    And it grew, and became a spreading vine of low stature, whose branches turned toward him, and the roots thereof were under him: so it became a vine, and brought forth branches, and shot forth sprigs.

  • Hosea 2:5

    For their mother hath played the harlot: she that conceived them hath done shamefully: for she said, I will go after my lovers, that give me my bread and my water, my wool and my flax, mine oil and my drink.

  • Isaiah 5:1-4

    Now will I sing to my wellbeloved a song of my beloved touching his vineyard. My wellbeloved hath a vineyard in a very fruitful hill: And he fenced it, and gathered out the stones thereof, and planted it with the choicest vine, and built a tower in the midst of it, and also made a winepress therein: and he looked that it should bring forth grapes, and it brought forth wild grapes. And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem, and men of Judah, judge, I pray you, betwixt me and my vineyard. What could have been done more to my vineyard, that I have not done in it? wherefore, when I looked that it should bring forth grapes, brought it forth wild grapes?

  • Ezekiel 15:2-8

    Son of man, What is the vine tree more than any tree, or than a branch which is among the trees of the forest? Shall wood be taken thereof to do any work? or will men take a pin of it to hang any vessel thereon? Behold, it is cast into the fire for fuel; the fire devoureth both the ends of it, and the midst of it is burned. Is it meet for any work? Behold, when it was whole, it was meet for no work: how much less shall it be meet yet for any work, when the fire hath devoured it, and it is burned? …

  • Hosea 2:2

    Plead with your mother, plead: for she is not my wife, neither am I her husband: let her therefore put away her whoredoms out of her sight, and her adulteries from between her breasts;

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
mother.
2; Ho 2:2,5
like.
15:2-8; 17:6; Isa 5:1-4; Mt 21:33-41
blood. or, quietness, or, likeness. she was.
Nu 24:6,7; De 8:7,9; Ps 80:8-11; 89:25-29
full. Many princes.

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Context

  • Ezekiel 19:9

    And they put him in ward in chains, and brought him to the king of Babylon: they brought him into holds, that his voice should no more be heard upon the mountains of Israel.

  • Ezekiel 19:10

    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.

  • Ezekiel 19:11

    And she had strong rods for the sceptres of them that bare rule, and her stature was exalted among the thick branches, and she appeared in her height with the multitude of her branches.

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Ezekiel 19:10 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
Tu madre fué como una vid en tu sangre, plantada junto á las aguas, haciendo fruto y echando vástagos á causa de las muchas aguas.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
Ta mère était comme une vigne, plantée près des eaux dans ton repos; elle était féconde et chargée de branches à cause des grandes eaux.
German
Elberfelder 1871
Deine Mutter war wie ein Weinstock, gleich dir an Wassern gepflanzt; von vielen Wassern wurde er fruchtbar und voll Ranken.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate
Mater tua quasi vinea in sanguine tuo super aquam plantata est: fructus ejus et frondes ejus creverunt ex aquis multis.