Ezekiel 17:10 - Exposition

The question, Shall it prosper? comes with all the emphasis of iteration. The east wind is, as elsewhere, the symbol of scorching and devastating power ( Ezekiel 19:12 ; Hosea 13:15 ; Jonah 4:8 ; Job 27:21 ). For furrows , read beds, with Revised Version. In the ease of the Chaldeans, who came from the east, there was a special appropriateness in the symbolism.