And now she is planted in the wilderness, in a dry and thirsty ground.
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Gill's Exposition
And now she is planted in the wilderness,.... In the land of Babylon, which though a very fruitful country, yet, because of the hardships and miseries which the Jews were exposed unto in it, was a…
Adam Clarke
And now she is planted in the wilderness - In the land of Chaldea, whither the people have been carried captives; and which, compared with their own land, was to them a dreary wilderness.
Jerusalem, the mother-city, is here represented by another similitude; she is a vine, and the princes are her branches. This comparison we had before, Eze 15:1. Jerusalem is as a vine; the Jewish…
Cambridge Bible
The deportation of the people from their own land into conditions where national life cannot thrive.
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