11And 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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Behold, the Assyrian was a cedar in Lebanon with fair branches, and with a shadowing shroud, and of an high stature; and his top was among the thick boughs.
And the vineyard which thy right hand hath planted, and the branch that thou madest strong for thyself.
The tree grew, and was strong, and the height thereof reached unto heaven, and the sight thereof to the end of all the earth:
I shall see him, but not now: I shall behold him, but not nigh: there shall come a Star out of Jacob, and a Sceptre shall rise out of Israel, and shall smite the corners of Moab, and destroy all the children of Sheth.
And there shall come forth a rod out of the stem of Jesse, and a Branch shall grow out of his roots:
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 10-14)Jerusalem, the mother-city, is here represented by another similitude; she is a vine, and the princes are her branches. This comparison we had before, Ezek. 15:1. Jerusalem is as a vine ; the Jewish nation is so: Like a vine in they blood (Ezek. 19:10), the blood-royal, like a vine set in blood and watered with blood, which contributes very much to the flourishing and fruitfulness of vines, as if…
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