Thematic Bible: A vine

"As for thy mother, she is like a vine in thy blood, planted by the waterside: her fruits and branches are grown out of many waters, her stalks were so strong that men might have made staves thereof for officers, she grew so high in her stalks. So when men saw that she exceeded the height and multitude of her branches, she was rooted out in displeasure, and cast down to the ground. The East wind dried up her fruit; her strong stalks were broken off, withered, and burnt in the fire. read more.
But now she is planted in the wilderness, in a dry and thirsty ground. And there is a fire gone out of her stalks, which hath burnt up her branches and her fruit: so that she hath no more strong stalks, to be staves for officers. This is a piteous and miserable thing."

"Thou son of man: What cometh of the vine among all other trees? And of the vine stock among all other timber of the grove?