| 19 | Ezekiel | ||
| 1 | And you, take up a lamentation for the princes of Israel, | A song of sorrow. Eze.19.1-14 | |
| 2 | and say: among lions! She couched in the midst of young lions, rearing her whelps. | ||
| 3 | And she brought up one of her whelps; he became a young lion, and he learned to catch prey; he devoured men. | ||
| 4 | The nations sounded an alarm against him; he was taken in their pit; and they brought him with hooks to the land of Egypt. | ||
| 5 | When she saw that she was baffled, that her hope was lost, she took another of her whelps and made him a young lion. | ||
| 6 | He prowled among the lions; he became a young lion, and he learned to catch prey; he devoured men. | ||
| 7 | And he ravaged their strongholds, and laid waste their cities; and the land was appalled and all who were in it at the sound of his roaring. | ||
| 8 | Then the nations set against him snares on every side; they spread their net over him; he was taken in their pit. | ||
| 9 | With 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 more be heard upon the mountains of Israel. | ||
| 10 | Your mother was like a vine in a vineyard transplanted by the water, fruitful and full of branches by reason of abundant water. | ||
| 11 | Its strongest stem became a ruler's scepter; it towered aloft among the thick boughs; it was seen in its height with the mass of its branches. | ||
| 12 | But the vine 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 | Now it is transplanted in the wilderness, in a dry and thirsty land. | ||
| 14 | 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 a ruler. This is a lamentation, and has become a lamentation. | ||
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