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Ezekiel 19:1 (NIV)

“Take up a lament concerning the princes of Israel

Ezekiel 19:2 (NIV)

and say: “ ‘What a lioness was your mother among the lions! She lay down among them and reared her cubs.

Ezekiel 19:3 (NIV)

She brought up one of her cubs, and he became a strong lion. He learned to tear the prey and he became a man-eater.

Ezekiel 19:4 (NIV)

The nations heard about him, and he was trapped in their pit. They led him with hooks to the land of Egypt.

Ezekiel 19:5 (NIV)

“ ‘When she saw her hope unfulfilled, her expectation gone, she took another of her cubs and made him a strong lion.

Ezekiel 19:6 (NIV)

He prowled among the lions, for he was now a strong lion. He learned to tear the prey and he became a man-eater.

Ezekiel 19:7 (NIV)

He broke down their strongholds and devastated their towns. The land and all who were in it were terrified by his roaring.

Ezekiel 19:8 (NIV)

Then the nations came against him, those from regions round about. They spread their net for him, and he was trapped in their pit.

Ezekiel 19:9 (NIV)

With hooks they pulled him into a cage and brought him to the king of Babylon. They put him in prison, so his roar was heard no longer on the mountains of Israel.

Ezekiel 19:10 (NIV)

“ ‘Your mother was like a vine in your vineyard planted by the water; it was fruitful and full of branches because of abundant water.

Ezekiel 19:11 (NIV)

Its branches were strong, fit for a ruler’s scepter. It towered high above the thick foliage, conspicuous for its height and for its many branches.

Ezekiel 19:12 (NIV)

But it was uprooted in fury and thrown to the ground. The east wind made it shrivel, it was stripped of its fruit; its strong branches withered and fire consumed them.

Ezekiel 19:13 (NIV)

Now it is planted in the desert, in a dry and thirsty land.

Ezekiel 19:14 (NIV)

Fire spread from one of its main branches and consumed its fruit. No strong branch is left on it fit for a ruler’s scepter.’ “This is a lament and is to be used as a lament.”

Ezekiel 20:1 (NIV)

In the seventh year, in the fifth month on the tenth day, some of the elders of Israel came to inquire of the Lord , and they sat down in front of me.

“Son of man, speak to the elders of Israel and say to them, ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: Have you come to inquire of me? As surely as I live, I will not let you inquire of me, declares the Sovereign Lord .’

Ezekiel 20:4 (NIV)

“Will you judge them? Will you judge them, son of man? Then confront them with the detestable practices of their ancestors

Ezekiel 20:5 (NIV)

and say to them: ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: On the day I chose Israel, I swore with uplifted hand to the descendants of Jacob and revealed myself to them in Egypt. With uplifted hand I said to them, “I am the Lord your God.”

Ezekiel 20:6 (NIV)

On that day I swore to them that I would bring them out of Egypt into a land I had searched out for them, a land flowing with milk and honey, the most beautiful of all lands.

Ezekiel 20:7 (NIV)

And I said to them, “Each of you, get rid of the vile images you have set your eyes on, and do not defile yourselves with the idols of Egypt. I am the Lord your God.”

Ezekiel 20:8 (NIV)

“ ‘But they rebelled against me and would not listen to me; they did not get rid of the vile images they had set their eyes on, nor did they forsake the idols of Egypt. So I said I would pour out my wrath on them and spend my anger against them in Egypt.