Ezekiel 19:13
in Ezekiel 19Now it is planted in the wilderness, in a dry and thirsty land.
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And now it is planted in the wilderness, in a dry and thirsty land.
KJV
And now she is planted in the wilderness, in a dry and thirsty ground.
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This verse in Ezekiel 19
Commentary
9 notes on this verseAnd now she is planted in the wilderness,.... In the land of Babylon, which though a very fruitful country, yet, because of the hardships and miseries which the Jews were exposed unto in it, was a wilderness to them: in a dry and thirsty ground; which is a periphrasis or description of a wilderness, Psa 63:1; and designs the same place as before; where the Jews were deprived of their liberties, and had not the opportunities of divine worship, the word and ordinances; and were destitute of the comforts both of civil and religious life.
This site's exposition
plucked up in fury
on Ezekiel 19:12-14
The vine is plucked up in fury and cast to the ground, the east wind drying its fruit until no strong rod remains. Planted in a dry and thirsty ground rather than by the waters, the vine sets fire in its own branches, a ruin that consumes itself.
This site's exposition
planted in the wilderness
Babylon lay in a fertile river plain, yet Gill and Wesley read the wilderness as exile itself, hard and barren to the captives. The phrase dry and thirsty land echoes Psalm 63:1. The vine by abundant waters of verse 10 now stands in drought.
The record, by era
The Church Fathers1 voice
(Verse 10 and following) Your mother is like a vine planted over the water, your blood. Its fruits and branches grew abundantly from many waters. And solid rods became scepters of rulers for it, and its stature was elevated in its branches. And it saw its height in the multitude of its palm trees. And in anger, it was uprooted and thrown to the ground, and a scorching wind dried up its fruit. Its strong rods withered and dried up, and fire consumed it. And now she has been transplanted into a desert in an impassable land and thirsty.
The Puritans and the Awakening3 voices
She - A few of the branches of the last pruning. In the wilderness - Tho' Babylon was in a very fruitful place, yet the cruelty of the Babylonians, made it to the Jews as terrible as a wilderness.
Orders given to the prophet to bewail the fall of the royal family, which had long made so great a figure by virtue of a covenant of royalty made with David and his seed, so that the eclipsing and extinguishing of it are justly lamented by all who know what value to put upon the covenant of our God, as we find, after a very large account of that covenant with David ( Ps. lxxxix.
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Babylon was as a wilderness to those of the people that were carried captives thither; the land of Judah was as a wilderness to Jerusalem, now that the whole country was ravaged and laid waste by the Chaldean army--a fruitful land turned into barrenness. "It is burnt with fire ( Ps. lxxx.
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The Nineteenth Century1 voice
A commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
proposed
planted--that is, 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. dry . . . 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.
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1 more voice on this verse
The Nineteenth Century1 voice
And now she is planted in the wilderness - In the land of Chaldea, whither the people have been carried captives; and which, compared with their own land, was to them a dreary wilderness.
How the passage was read
What the Jewish commentators add
On the verses either side of this one
And fire came out of the staff of its sturdy branches From the iniquity of its kings and princes, the evil came to it.
This section is reception history: how the passage was read and kept in the Jewish tradition. Where a reading parts from an essential of the Christian faith, the section says so at that point.
Texts and citation data: Sefaria; each excerpt follows its version’s licence. 4 further sources are cited on this chapter that carry no English text this site may quote or only restate the verse.
The words behind it
6 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וְעַתָּ֖ה | veatah | and now | H6258 → | 433 times |
| שְׁתוּלָ֣ה | shetulah | [it is] planted | H8362 → | 10 times |
| בַמִּדְבָּ֑ר | vamidbar | in the wilderness | H4057 → | 270 times |
| בְּאֶ֖רֶץ | beeretz | in a land | H776 → | 2504 times |
| צִיָּ֥ה | tziyah | dry | H6723 → | |
| וְצָמָֽא׃ | vetzama' | and thirst | H6772 → |
וְעַתָּ֖הand now
veatahH6258 →433 times
שְׁתוּלָ֣ה[it is] planted
shetulahH8362 →10 times
בַמִּדְבָּ֑רin the wilderness
vamidbarH4057 →270 times
בְּאֶ֖רֶץin a land
beeretzH776 →2504 times
צִיָּ֥הdry
tziyahH6723 →
וְצָמָֽא׃and thirst
vetzama'H6772 →
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
Psalms 68:6God settles the lonely in families; He leads the prisoners out to prosperity, but the rebellious dwell in a sun-scorched land.
it leads to
- Psalms 113:9
He settles the barren woman in her home as a joyful mother to her children. Hallelujah!
- Psalms 69:33
For the LORD listens to the needy and does not despise His captive people.
- Psalms 107:10
Some sat in darkness and in the shadow of death, prisoners in affliction and chains,
- Isaiah 61:1
The Spirit of the Lord GOD is on Me, because the LORD has anointed Me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent Me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty…
- Psalms 107:14
He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death and broke away their chains.
- Psalms 113:9
Through
Ezekiel 19:10Your mother was like a vine in your vineyard, planted by the water; it was fruitful and full of branches because of the abundant waters.
it leads to
- Psalms 80:8–11
You uprooted a vine from Egypt; You drove out the nations and transplanted it.
- Deuteronomy 8:7
For the LORD your God is bringing you into a good land, a land of brooks and fountains and springs that flow through the valleys and hills;
- Psalms 80:8–11
Through
Hosea 2:3Otherwise, I will strip her naked and expose her like the day of her birth. I will make her like a desert and turn her into a parched land, and I will let her…
it leads to
- Ezekiel 16:22
And in all your abominations and acts of prostitution, you did not remember the days of your youth when you were naked and bare, wallowing in your own blood.
- Ezekiel 16:22
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About Ezekiel
This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; Jerome, Commentary on Ezekiel; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament; Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible and Patrick Fairbairn, An Exposition of Ezekiel.