Ezekiel 19:14
And fire is gone out of a rod of her choice boughs, and has devoured her; and there was no rod of strength in her. Her race is become a parable of lamentation, and it shall be for a lamentation.
Updated Brenton Septuagint
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In Context
13And now they have planted her in the wilderness, in a dry land.
Cross References
Genesis 49:10A ruler shall not fail from Judah, 1 Nor a prince from his loins, 1 Until there come the things stored up for him; 1 And he is the expectation of nations. 1
2 Kings 24:20For it was according to the Lord’s anger against Jerusalem and on Judah, until he cast them out of his presence, that Zedekiah revolted against the king of Babylon.
Psalms 80:15I should have put down their enemies very quickly, 1 And should have laid my hand upon those that afflicted them. 1
Jeremiah 38:23For thus saith the Lord; They shall yet speak this word in the land of Judah, and in the cities thereof, when I shall turn his captivity; blessed be the Lord on his righteous holy mountain!
Lamentations 4:20The breath of our nostrils, our anointed Lord, 1 Was taken in their destructive snares, 1 Of whom we said, 1 In his shadow we shall live among the Gentiles. 1
Matthew Henry on Ezekiel 19:11-14
The Fall of the Royal Family. ( b. c. 593.) 10 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. 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 her height with the multitude of her branches. 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… Read the whole commentary →