east wind - The east wind was noxious to vegetation in Palestine; a fit emblem of Babylon, which came from the northeast.
wither in ... furrows where it grew - Zedekiah was taken at Jericho, on Jewish soil (Jer 52:8). “It shall wither, although it has furrows from which it expects continual waterings” [Calvin], (Eze 19:12; Hos 13:15).