Ezekiel 19:12

But she was plucked up in fury, she was cast down to the ground, and the east wind dried up her fruit: her strong rods were broken and withered; the fire consumed them.

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Word	Hebrew	Strong’s	Meaning
up	וַתֻּתַּ֤שׁ va.tu.Tash	H5428	to tear away · conjunction + verb, hophal sequential imperfect, 3rd person feminine singular
fury	בְּחֵמָה֙ be.che.Mah	H2534	heat · preposition + noun, common feminine singular absolute
down	הֻשְׁלָ֔כָה hush.La.khah	H7993	to throw out · verb, hophal perfect, 3rd person feminine singular
ground	לָאָ֣רֶץ la.'A.retz	H776	the earth (at large · preposition with the article + noun, common feminine singular absolute
east	הַקָּדִ֖ים ha.ka.Dim	H6921	the fore or front part · definite article + noun, common masculine singular absolute
wind	וְר֥וּחַ ve.Ru.ach	H7307	wind · conjunction + noun, common feminine singular construct
up	הוֹבִ֣ישׁ ho.Vish	H3001	to be ashamed · verb, hiphil perfect, 3rd person masculine singular
fruit	פִּרְיָ֑הּ pir.Yah	H6529	fruit (literally or figuratively) · noun, common masculine singular construct + pronominal suffix, 3rd person feminine singular
strong	עֻזָּ֖הּ 'u.Zah	H5797	strength in various applications (force · noun, common masculine singular construct + pronominal suffix, 3rd person feminine singular
rods	מַטֵּ֥ה ma.Teh	H4294	a branch (as extending) · noun, common masculine singular construct
broken	הִתְפָּרְק֧וּ hit.pa.re.Ku	H6561	to break off or crunch · verb, hithpael perfect, 3rd person common plural
withered	וְיָבֵ֛שׁוּ ve.ya.Ve.shu	H3001	to be ashamed · conjunction + verb, qal perfect, 3rd person common plural
fire	אֵ֥שׁ 'esh	H784	fire (literally or figuratively) · noun, common both genders singular absolute
consumed	אֲכָלָֽתְהוּ 'a.kha.La.te.hu	H398	to eat (literally or figuratively) · verb, qal perfect, 3rd person feminine singular + pronominal suffix, 3rd person masculine singular

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890/1894), public domain; digitized by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). KJV word tagging: eBible.org (public domain). Original-language text, parsing and brief lexicon: STEPBible.org data from Tyndale House, Cambridge (CC BY 4.0).

Cross-references

Ezekiel 17:10 Yea, behold, being planted, shall it prosper? shall it not utterly wither, when the east wind toucheth it? it shall wither in the furrows wh…
Hosea 13:15 Though he be fruitful among his brethren, an east wind shall come, the wind of the LORD shall come up from the wilderness, and his spring sh…
Isaiah 27:11 When the boughs thereof are withered, they shall be broken off: the women come, and set them on fire: for it is a people of no understanding…
Jeremiah 31:28 And it shall come to pass, that like as I have watched over them, to pluck up, and to break down, and to throw down, and to destroy, and to…
Ezekiel 15:4 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?
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 h…
Deuteronomy 32:22 For a fire is kindled in mine anger, and shall burn unto the lowest hell, and shall consume the earth with her increase, and set on fire the…
2 Kings 23:29 In his days Pharaoh-nechoh king of Egypt went up against the king of Assyria to the river Euphrates: and king Josiah went against him; and h…

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Commentary

Matthew Henry on Ezekiel 19:10–end

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, Eze 15:1. Jerusalem is as a vine; the Jewish nation is so: Like a vine in they blood (Eze 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 the blood which had been shed had been designed for the fattening and improving of the soil, in such plenty was it shed; and for a time it seemed to have that effect, for she was fruitful and full of branches by reason of the waters, the many waters near which she was planted. Places of great wickedness…

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Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Ezekiel 19:12

plucked up--not gradually withered. The sudden upturning of the state was designed to awaken the Jews out of their torpor to see the hand of God in the national judgment. east wind--(See on Eze 17:10).

Adam Clarke on Ezekiel 19:12

But she was plucked up in fury - Jerusalem; taken after a violent and most destructive siege; Nebuchadnezzar being violently enraged against Zedekiah for breaking his oath to him. She was cast down to the ground - Jerusalem was totally ruined, by being burned to the ground. Her strong rods were broken - The children of Zedekiah were slain before his eyes, and after that his own eyes pulled out; and he was laden with chains, and carried into Babylon.

John Gill on Ezekiel 19:12

But she was plucked up in fury,.... This vine being turned into a degenerate plant of a strange vine; or the people of the Jews becoming wicked, disobedient to God, and disregarding his laws and ordinances, the wrath of God came upon them, and let in the Assyrians among them, who carried off ten tribes at once; and the tribes of Judah and Benjamin not taking warning hereby, but continuing and increasing in sinful courses, great part of them were carried captive into Babylon, with their king Jeconiah, who succeeded Jehoiakim before mentioned; when the kingdom seemed to be utterly ruined and destroyed, and is what is here referred to: she was cast down to the ground; a phrase expressive of, h…

Dictionary and topics

East wind — The wind coming from the east (Job 27:21; Isa. 27:8, etc.). Blight caused by this wind, “thin ears” (Gen. 41:6); the withered “gourd” (Jonah 4: 8). It was the cause and also the emblem of evil (Ezek.…
Vine — One of the most important products of Palestine. The first mention of it is in the history of Noah (Gen. 9:20). It is afterwards frequently noticed both in the Old and New Testaments, and in the…
Winds — Blowing from the four quarters of heaven (Jer. 49:36; Ezek. 37:9; Dan. 8:8; Zech. 2:6). The east wind was parching (Ezek. 17:10; 19:12), and is sometimes mentioned as simply denoting a strong wind…
Grape · .PARABLES OF THE VINE — .PARABLES OF THE VINE
Vine · Parables of — Parables of
Wind · .In the valley of the Euphrates River — .In the valley of the Euphrates River

Dictionary: Easton's (1897) and Smith's (1863), public domain. Topics: Nave's Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey's Topical Textbook (1897), public domain. Both as parsed by NEUU (CC BY 4.0).

Ezekiel 19:12

Word by word — the Hebrew

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Ezekiel 19:10–end

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Ezekiel 19:12

Adam Clarke on Ezekiel 19:12

John Gill on Ezekiel 19:12

Dictionary and topics

Ezekiel 19:12

Word by word — the Hebrew

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Ezekiel 19:10–end

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Ezekiel 19:12

Adam Clarke on Ezekiel 19:12

John Gill on Ezekiel 19:12

Dictionary and topics

John Calvin on Ezekiel 19:10-12

Keil & Delitzsch on Ezekiel 19:10–end

Tyndale Open Study Notes on Ezekiel 19:11-12

Rashi on Ezekiel 19:12