Ezekiel 19
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A mother’s sons
1You, raise a lament for Israel’s princes. 2Say:
What a lioness among lionesses was your mother!
She bedded down among the strong young lions and reared her cubs.
3She singled out one of her cubs and he became a strong young lion;
he learned to tear flesh and devour humans.
4When the nations heard about him, they caught him in their trap
and carried him with hooks to the land of Egypt.
5When she realized that she waited in vain, her hope faded.
So she took another of her cubs and set him up as a strong young lion.
6He went on the prowl with the other lions and became a strong young lion.
He learned to tear flesh and devour humans;
7he ravaged#19.7 Or knew their widows and laid waste to their cities.
When the earth and everything in it became horrified by the sound of his raging,
8the nations from the surrounding regions allied against him.
They cast their nets over him and caught him in their trap.
9They put a collar on him and brought him with hooks.
They brought him with nets to the king of Babylon
so that his voice would no longer be heard on the mountains of Israel.
The proud mother
10Your mother was like a vine in a vineyard#19.10 Or in your blood planted beside the waters;
she bore lush fruit and foliage because of the plentiful water,
11and she produced mighty branches, fit for rulers’ scepters.
She grew tall, and her crown went up between the clouds.
Because of her height and thick growth, she became conspicuous.
12So she was struck down in anger,
thrown down to the ground.
The east wind dried her out and destroyed her fruit;
it sapped the branch of its strength,
and fire consumed it.
13So now she is planted in the desert,
in a parched and thirsty land,
14and fire has gone out from her branch and consumed her foliage and fruit,
leaving her no strong branch
or ruler’s scepter.
This is a lamentation, and it will serve as 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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