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They imprisoned him in a cage with hooks
    and brought him to the king of Babel.
Then they placed him in their dungeon
    where his voice would no longer be heard
        on the mountains of Israel.

10 ‘Your mother was like a vine
    entwining a pomegranate,[a]
planted by water, full of fruit,
    and full of branches
        because it had been watered generously.
11 Strong were its boughs,
    suitable for use in the scepter of a ruler.
It reached to the clouds,
    noticeable because of its height
        and its abundant branches.

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 19:10 So LXX; MT reads in your blood, misreading the Heb. a pomegranate