Ezekiel 19
19
A Song of Sorrow
1The LORD told me to sing this song of sorrow for two princes of Israel:
2What a lioness your mother was!
She reared her cubs among the fierce male lions.
3She reared a cub and taught him to hunt;
he learnt to eat people.
4The nations heard about him
and trapped him in a pit.
With hooks they dragged him off to Egypt.
5She waited until she saw all hope was gone.
Then she reared another of her cubs,
and he grew into a fierce lion.
6When he was full-grown,
he prowled with the other lions.
He too learnt to hunt and eat people.
7He wrecked forts,#19.7 One ancient translation wrecked forts; Hebrew unclear. he ruined towns.
The people of the land were terrified
every time he roared.
8The nations gathered to fight him;
people came from everywhere.
They spread their hunting nets
and caught him in their trap.
9They put him in a cage
and took him to the king of Babylonia.
They kept him under guard,
so that his roar would never be heard again
on the hills of Israel.
10Your mother was like a grapevine#19.10 Hebrew has an additional word, the meaning of which is unclear.
planted near a stream.
Because there was plenty of water,
the vine was covered with leaves and fruit.
11Its branches were strong,
and grew to be royal sceptres.
The vine grew tall enough to reach the clouds;
everyone saw how leafy and tall it was.
12But angry hands pulled it up by the roots
and threw it to the ground.
The east wind dried up its fruit.
Its branches were broken off;
they dried up and were burnt.
13Now it is planted in the desert,
in a dry and waterless land.
14The stem of the vine caught fire;
fire burnt up its branches and fruit.
The branches will never again be strong,
will never be royal sceptres.
This is a song of sorrow; it has been sung again and again.
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Good News Bible with Deuterocanonicals/Apocrypha. Scripture taken from the Good News Bible (r) (Today's English Version Second Edition, UK/British Edition). Copyright © 1992 British & Foreign Bible Society. Used by permission.
Ezekiel 19
19
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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