Ezekiel 19:10-11

19:10 “‘Your mother was like a vine in your vineyard, ¹  planted by water.

It was fruitful and full of branches because it was well-watered.

19:11 Its boughs were strong, fit ²  for rulers’ scepters; it reached up into the clouds.

It stood out because of its height and its many branches. ³ 

[19:10]  ¹ tc The Hebrew text reads “in your blood,” but most emend to “in your vineyard,” assuming a ב-כ (beth-kaph) confusion. See L. C. Allen, Ezekiel (WBC), 1:284. Another attractive emendation assumes a faulty word division and yields the reading “like a vine full of tendrils, which/because…”; see D. I. Block, Ezekiel (NICOT), 1:607, n. 68.

[19:11]  ² tn The word “fit” does not occur in the Hebrew text.

[19:11]  ³ tn Heb “and it was seen by its height and by the abundance of its branches.”