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Your mother - Judah or Jerusalem. Jehoiachin is still addressed.
In your blood - Blood is equivalent to “life” ([Reference Gen…

A vine in thy blood. —The figure here changes to the more common one of a vine, yet by no means the vine of low statu…

Here Ezekiel places before our eyes the twofold state of the Jews, so that they might acknowledge they had fallen into extreme misery because they …

Your mother [is] like a vine in your blood. Another simile is used, relating to the same persons; the same that were comp…

Jerusalem was a vine, flourishing and fruitful. This vine is now destroyed, though not plucked up by the roots. She has by wickedness made herself …
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Albert Barnes
AlbertBarnes