What Does Ezekiel 19:13 Mean in the King James?
And now she is planted in the wilderness, in a dry and thirsty ground.
The analysis reads the King James wording.
King James Version The King James Version, first published in 1611. Selah Verse shows the standard text.
THE KEY
Being planted does not mean being nourished: the verse holds rootedness and deprivation together.
THE MEANING
You can be placed somewhere and still be deprived of what sustains life. Here, being planted does not erase the ground’s dryness or the thirst it imposes.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the belief that being rooted or established somewhere proves that the place is sustaining you.
THE ROOT
שְׁתוּלָה
shetulah
GROWS FROM
שתל
shatal
To plant or transplant.
שְׁתוּלָה (shetulah, planted) comes from שָׁתַל (shatal, to plant or transplant). The same root describes trees planted by water; here, the planting remains while the nourishing setting is absent, showing that rootedness alone is not flourishing.
ALSO GROWS
shatal: To plant or transplant.
שָׁתַל
The root carries the sense of setting a plant into a place; the verse makes the conditions of that place part of the image.
shatul: Planted; the masculine form of the participle from the same root.
שָׁתוּל
This form describes the tree planted by water in Psalm 1:3 and Jeremiah 17:8, where planting and access to water meet.
THE PATTERN
A life bears according to what sustains it, so planting alone does not determine fruitfulness.
And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper.For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, and that spreadeth out her roots by the river, and shall not see when heat cometh, but her leaf shall be green; and shall not be careful in the year of drought, neither shall cease from yielding fruit.I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing.THE THREAD
For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, and that spreadeth out her roots by the river, and shall not see when heat cometh, but her leaf shall be green; and shall not be careful in the year of drought, neither shall cease from yielding fruit.Jeremiah uses the same Hebrew root, שתל (shatal, to plant), for a tree rooted beside water. Its roots reach the river, revealing the contrast here: planting remains, but the ground offers no water to sustain life.
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