13And now she is planted in the wilderness, in a dry and thirsty ground.
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Lest I strip her naked, and set her as in the day that she was born, and make her as a wilderness, and set her like a dry land, and slay her with thirst.
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.
And Jehoiachin the king of Judah went out to the king of Babylon, he, and his mother, and his servants, and his princes, and his officers: and the king of Babylon took him in the eighth year of his reign. …
And I will bring you into the wilderness of the people, and there will I plead with you face to face.
God setteth the solitary in families: he bringeth out those which are bound with chains: but the rebellious dwell in a dry land.
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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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