Ezekiel 19
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Ezekiel 19
Israel Degraded
1 #
Ezek 26.17; 27.2 As for you, raise up a lamentation for the princes of Israel, 2#Isa 5.29; Nah 2.11, 12; Zech 11.3and say:
What a lioness was your mother
among lions!
She lay down among young lions,
rearing her cubs.
3 #
v 6
; 2 Kings 23.31, 32She raised up one of her cubs;
he became a young lion,
and he learned to catch prey;
he devoured humans.
4 #
2 Kings 23.33; 2 Chr 36.4 The nations heard about him;
he was caught in their pit,
and they brought him with hooks
to the land of Egypt.
5 #
2 Kings 23.34
When she saw that she was thwarted,
that her hope was lost,
she took another of her cubs
and made him a young lion.
6 #
v 3
; 2 Kings 24.9He prowled among the lions;
he became a young lion,
and he learned to catch prey;
he devoured people.
7 #
Ezek 12.19; 30.12 And he ravaged their strongholds#19.7 Tg: Heb his widows
and laid waste their towns;
the land was appalled, and all in it,
at the sound of his roaring.
8 #
v 4
; 2 Kings 24.2The nations set upon him
from the provinces all around;
they spread their net over him;
he was caught in their pit.
9 #
2 Chr 36.6; Jer 22.18; Ezek 6.2 With hooks they put him in a neck collar
and brought him to the king of Babylon;
they brought him into custody,
so that his voice should be heard no more
on the mountains of Israel.
10 #
Ps 80.8–11
Your mother was like a vine in a vineyard#19.10 Cn: Heb in your blood
transplanted by the water,
fruitful and full of branches
from abundant water.
11 #
Ezek 31.3; Dan 4.11 Its strongest stem became
a ruler’s scepter;#19.11 Heb Its strongest stems became rulers’ scepters
it towered aloft
among the clouds;
it stood out in its height
with its mass of branches.
12 #
Jer 31.28; Ezek 17.10; 28.17; Hos 13.15 But it was plucked up in fury,
cast down to the ground;
the east wind dried it up;
its fruit was stripped off;
its strong stem was withered;
the fire consumed it.
13 #
Hos 2.3
Now it is transplanted into the wilderness,
into a dry and thirsty land.
14 #
Lam 4.20; Ezek 15.4 And fire has gone out from its stem,
has consumed its branches and fruit,
so that there remains in it no strong stem,
no scepter for ruling.
This is a lamentation, and it is used as a lamentation.
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