Ezekiel 19:10-12

Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

¹⁰ Your mother was like a vine in a vineyard^[a]
    transplanted by the water,
fruitful and full of branches
    by reason of abundant water.
¹¹ Its strongest stem became
    a ruler’s scepter;
it towered aloft
    among the thick boughs;
it was seen in its height
    with the mass of its branches.
¹² But the vine was plucked up in fury,
    cast down to the ground;
the east wind dried it up;
    its fruit was stripped off,
its strong stem was withered;
    the fire consumed it.