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Ezekiel

ESV

Chapter 19

1“As for you, take up a lamentation for the princes of Israel; 2and say: What was your mother? A lioness among lions! She couched among young lions, she reared her cubs among them. 3She brought up one of her cubs; he became a young lion, and he learned to tear the prey; he devoured men. 4The nations heard about him; he was captured in their pit, and they brought him with hooks to the land of Egypt. 5When she saw that she was thwarted, that her hope was lost, she took another of her cubs and made him a young lion. 6He prowled among the lions; he became a young lion, and he learned to tear the prey; he devoured men. 7He ravaged their strongholds, and laid waste their cities; and the land was desolate, and all that was in it, by the sound of his roaring. 8Then the nations set against him from provinces on every side; they spread their net over him; he was captured in their pit. 9With hooks they put him in a cage and brought him to the king of Babylon; they brought him into custody, that his voice should no longer be heard on the mountains of Israel. 10Your mother was like a vine in a vineyard planted by the water, fruitful and full of branches because of abundant water. 11Its strong stems were for the scepters of rulers, and its height was exalted among the thick clouds; it was seen in its height with the multitude of its branches. 12But it was plucked up in fury, cast down to the ground; the east wind dried up its fruit; its strong stems were broken and withered; the fire consumed them. 13Now it is planted in the wilderness, in a dry and thirsty land. 14And fire has gone out from its stem; it has devoured its fruit, so that there remains in it no strong stem, no scepter for a ruler. This is a lamentation and has become a lamentation.”

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