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Nations set upon him from the surrounding provinces.
    They spread their net over him,
    and he was trapped in their pit.
With hooks they put him in a wooden cage,[a]
    and they brought him[b] to the king of Babylon.
    They brought him into prison
        so that his roar would no longer be heard
        on the mountains of Israel.
10 Your mother was like a vine in your vineyard,[c]
    planted by water, fruitful and full of branches
    because of plentiful waters.

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 19:9 Or a collar
  2. Ezekiel 19:9 King Jehoiachin of Judah
  3. Ezekiel 19:10 A few Hebrew manuscripts read vineyard. Most Hebrew manuscripts read blood, but the context supports vineyard.