Ezekiel 17:10 Meaning Yes

Taṇhā: Craving Craving is thirst, and here it wears its plainest form: roots reaching for a better watered bank. There was soil and water enough where the vine was set, yet it stretched toward the second eagle for more. Anyone who has watched a houseplant lean hard toward the window knows that pull, and knows the leaning is what leaves the plant off balance.

Kamma: Action and its fruit Deeds ripen. The turning of the roots was the deed, and the withering is the harvest; no separate punishment has to be added to it. Zedekiah's broken oath works the way a farmer's choice of seed works, since whatever goes into the ground comes up in its own season.

Ādīnava: Drawback Every attractive arrangement carries a hidden liability, and seeing it early is its own protection. The vine looked well placed until the wind came from the east, the direction the desert wind always comes from in that country. "Will it prosper?" is a question to sit with rather than answer quickly, because the trouble was in the plan from the first day.

Anicca: Impermanence Everything grown is on its way to withering, and the east wind only sets the hour. One touch of that dry air and the green goes brown in the beds that fed it. Good soil and standing water never made anything permanent, they only slowed the change enough to let it be overlooked.

Asāra: Without heartwood Some things have no core to find, however lush they look, and treating such a thing as solid ground is the old mistake. A vine has no trunk; it climbs on whatever it can reach and holds nothing up by itself. Withering in the very beds where it grew is what comes of a life borrowed entirely from its supports.