Ezekiel
Chapter 19
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Moreover take you up a lamentation for the princes of Israel, 2
and
say, 'What is your mother?
A lioness.
She
lay down among lions,
she
nourished her whelps among young lions. 3
And she brought up one of her whelps.
It
became a young lion,
and
it learned to catch the prey . . .
it
devoured men. 4
The nations also heard of him.
He
was taken in their pit,
and
they brought him with chains unto the land of Egypt. 5
Now
when she saw that she had waited,
and
her hope was lost,
then
she took another of her whelps,
and
made him a young lion. 6
And
he went up and down among the lions,
he
became a young lion,
and
learned to catch the prey,
and
devoured men. 7
And
he knew their desolate palaces,
and
he laid waste their cities;
and
the land was desolate,
and
the fullness thereof,
by
the noise of his roaring. 8
Then
the nations set against him
on
every side from the provinces,
and
spread their net over him.
He was taken in their pit. 9
And
they put him in ward in chains,
and
brought him to the king of Babylon.
They
brought him into holds,
that
his voice should no more be heard
upon
the mountains of Israel. 10
Your
mother is like a vine in your blood,
planted
by the waters.
She
was fruitful and full of branches
by
reason of many waters. 11
And
she had strong rods for the scepters
of
those who bare rule,
and
her stature was exalted among the thick branches,
and
she appeared in her height
with
the multitude of her branches. 12
But
she was plucked up in fury,
she
was cast down to the ground,
and
the east wind dried up her fruit.
Her
strong rods were broken and withered;
the
fire consumed them. 13
And
now she is planted in the wilderness,
in
a dry and thirsty ground. 14
And
fire is gone out of a rod of her branches,
which
has devoured her fruit,
so
that she has no strong rod to be a scepter to rule.
This
is a lamentation,
and
shall be for a lamentation.
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