Ezekiel 19:10
Good News Translation
Your mother was like a grapevine planted near a stream. Because there was plenty of water, the vine was covered with leaves and fruit.

New Revised Standard Version
Your mother was like a vine in a vineyard transplanted by the water, fruitful and full of branches from abundant water.

Contemporary English Version
Your mother was a vine like you, growing near a stream. There was plenty of water, so she was filled with branches and with lots of fruit.

New American Bible
Your mother was like a leafy vine planted by water, Fruitful and full of branches because of abundant water.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Thy mother is like a vine in thy blood planted by the water: her fruit and her branches have grown out of many waters.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Thy mother is like a vine in thy blood planted by the water: her fruit and her branches have grown out of many waters.

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Ezekiel 19:2 And say: Why did thy mother the lioness lie down among the lions, and bring up her whelps in the midst of young lions?

Hosea 2:2,5 Judge your mother, judge her: because she is not my wife, and I am not her husband. Let her put away her fornications from her face, and her adulteries from between her breasts. . . .

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Ezekiel 15:2-8 Son of man, what shall be made of the wood of the vine, out of all the trees of the woods that are among the trees of the forests? . . .

Ezekiel 17:6 And it sprung up and grew into a spreading vine of low stature, and the branches thereof looked towards him: and the roots thereof were under him. So it became a vine, and grew into branches, and shot forth sprigs.

Isaiah 5:1-4 I will sing to my beloved the canticle of my cousin concerning his vineyard. My beloved had a vineyard on a hill in a fruitful place. . . .

Matthew 21:33-41 Hear ye another parable. There was a man, an householder, who planted a vineyard and made a hedge round about it and dug in it a press and built a tower and let it out to husbandmen and went into a strange country. . . .

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Numbers 24:6,7 As woody valleys, as watered gardens near the rivers, as tabernacles which the Lord hath pitched, as cedars by the waterside. . . .

Deuteronomy 8:7,9 For the Lord thy God will bring thee into a good land, of brooks and of waters, and of fountains: in the plains of which and the hills deep rivers break out: . . .

Psalm 80:8-11 Thou hast brought a vineyard out of Egypt: thou hast cast out the Gentiles and planted it. . . .

Psalm 89:25-29 And I will set his hand in the sea; and his right hand in the rivers. . . .

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Context
A Lament for the Princes of Israel
9And they put him into a cage, they brought him in chains to the king of Babylon: and they cast him into prison, that his voice should no more be heard upon the mountains of Israel. 10Thy mother is like a vine in thy blood planted by the water: her fruit and her branches have grown out of many waters.11And she hath strong rods to make sceptres for them that bear rule, and her stature was exalted among the branches: and she saw her height in the multitude of her branches.…
Cross References
John 15:1
I am the true vine: and my Father is the husbandman.

Psalm 1:3
And he shall be like a tree which is planted near the running waters, which shall bring forth its fruit, in due season. And his leaf shall not fall off: and all whatsoever he shall do shall prosper.

Psalm 80:8
Thou hast brought a vineyard out of Egypt: thou hast cast out the Gentiles and planted it.

Psalm 128:3
Thy wife as a fruitful vine, on the sides of thy house. Thy children as olive plants, round about thy table.

Ezekiel 19:13
And now she is transplanted into the desert, in a land not passable, and dry.

Ezekiel 19:9
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