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10 Your mother was (A)like a vine in a vineyard[a]
    planted by the water,
(B)fruitful and full of branches
    (C)by reason of abundant water.
11 Its strong stems became
    rulers' sceptres;
it towered aloft
    among the thick boughs;[b]
it was seen in its height
    with the mass of its branches.
12 But the vine was plucked up in fury,
    cast down to the ground;
(D)the east wind dried up its fruit;
    they were stripped off and withered.
As for its strong stem,
    fire consumed it.

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 19:10 Some Hebrew manuscripts; most Hebrew manuscripts in your blood
  2. Ezekiel 19:11 Or the clouds