Ezekiel 19
19
A Lament for Israel’s Princes
1#2Ki 24:6; Eze 26:17Moreover take up a lamentation for the officials of Israel, 2and say:
What was your mother?
A lioness among lions!
She lay down among young lions;
she nourished her whelps.
3When she brought up one of her whelps,
he became a lion
and learned to catch his prey;
he devoured men.
4#2Ki 23:33–34; 2Ch 36:4 The nations also heard of him;
he was taken in their pit,
and they brought him with chains
to the land of Egypt.
5Now when she saw as she had waited
that her hope was lost,
then she took another of her whelps
and made him a young lion.
6He went up and down among the lions;
he became a young lion,
and learned to catch the prey,
and devoured men.
7#Eze 30:12 He destroyed their fortified palaces,
and he laid waste their cities;
and the land and its fullness
were appalled by the noise of his roaring.
8#Eze 12:13; 19:4 Then the nations set against him
on every side from their provinces,
and spread their net over him;
he was taken in their pit.
9#2Ch 36:6; Eze 6:2 They put him in a cage with hooks
and brought him to the king of Babylon;
they brought him in hunting nets,
so that his voice would be heard no more
on the mountains of Israel.
10#Ps 80:8–11; Dt 8:7 Your mother was like a vine in your vineyard,
planted by the waters;
it was fruitful and full of branches
by reason of many waters.
11#Eze 31:3; Ps 80:15 It had strong rods
for the scepters of those who rule.
And its stature
was exalted above the clouds,
so it appeared in its height
with the multitude of its branches.
12#Eze 17:10; Hos 13:15 But it was plucked up in fury,
it was cast down to the ground,
and the east wind dried up its fruit.
Its strong rod was broken and it withered;
the fire consumed it.
13#Hos 2:3; Eze 19:10 Now it is planted in the wilderness,
in a dry and thirsty ground.
14#2Ki 24:20; Eze 19:1 Fire has gone out from its branch;
it has devoured its shoots and fruit,
so that there is no strong rod in it,
a scepter to rule.
This is a lamentation, and has become a lamentation.
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Ezekiel 19
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1 "And as for you, take up a lament over the leaders of Israel,
2 and you shall say: Why did your mother, the lioness, recline among the male lions, and raise her little ones in the midst of young lions?
3 And she led away one of her little ones, and he became a lion. And he learned to seize prey and to consume men.
4 And the Gentiles heard about him, and they seized him, but not without receiving wounds. And they led him away in chains to the land of Egypt.
5 Then, when she had seen that she was weakened, and that her hope had perished, she took one of her little ones, and appointed him as a lion.
6 And he advanced among the lions, and he became a lion. And he learned to seize prey and to devour men.
7 He learned to make widows, and to lead their citizens into the desert. And the land, with its plenitude, was made desolate by the voice of his roaring.
8 And the Gentiles came together against him, on every side, from the provinces, and they spread their net over him; by their wounds, he was captured.
9 And they put him into a cage; they led him in chains to the king of Babylon. And they cast him into a prison, so that his voice would no longer be heard upon the mountains of Israel.
10 Your mother is like a vine, in your blood, planted by the water; her fruit and her branches have increased because of many waters.
11 And her strong branches were made into scepters for the rulers, and her stature was exalted among the branches. And she saw her own loftiness among the multitude of her branches.
12 But she was uprooted in wrath, and cast upon the ground. And the burning wind dried up her fruit. Her robust branches withered and were dried up. A fire consumed her.
13 And now she has been transplanted into the desert, into a land impassable and dry.
14 And a fire has gone forth from a rod of her branches, which has consumed her fruit. And there is no strong branch in her to become a scepter for the rulers. This is a lamentation, and it shall be a lamentation."
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