10  Your mother was ⁱlike a vine in a vineyard¹

planted by the water,

^jfruitful and full of branches

^kby reason of abundant water.

11  Its strong stems became

rulers’ scepters;

it towered aloft

among the thick boughs;²

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;

^lthe east wind dried up its fruit;

they were stripped off and withered.

As for its strong stem,

fire consumed it.

13  ^mNow it is planted in the wilderness,

in a dry and thirsty land.

14  ⁿAnd fire has gone out from the stem of its shoots,

has consumed its fruit,

^oso that there remains in it no strong stem,

no scepter for ruling.