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Ezekiel 19 :: Amplified Bible (AMP)

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Dirge for the Princes of Israel

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 19:1 -

“As for you, take up a dirge (funeral poem to be sung) for the princes of Israel

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 19:2 - and say,

‘What was your mother [Jerusalem and Judah]?

A lioness among lions!

She lay down among young lions,

She reared her cubs.

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‘When she [the royal mother-city] brought up [Jehoahaz] one of her cubs,

He became a [young] lion,

And he learned to catch and tear the prey;

He devoured men.

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 19:4 -

‘The nations heard about him;

He was captured in their pit,

And they brought him with hooks

To the land of Egypt.

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 19:5 -

‘When she saw, as she waited,

That her hope was lost,

She took [fn]another of her cubs

And made him a young lion.

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‘And he moved among the lions;

He became a young lion,

He learned to tear the prey;

He devoured men.

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 19:7 -

‘He destroyed their palaces

And he flattened their cities;

And the land and all who were in it were appalled

By the sound of his roaring.

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‘Then the nations set against him (the king)

On every side from the provinces,

And they spread their net over him;

He was captured in their pit.

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‘They put him in a cage with hooks and chains

And brought him to the king of Babylon;

They brought him in hunting nets

So that his voice would be heard no more

On the mountains of Israel.

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‘Your mother [Jerusalem] was like a vine in your [fn]vineyard,

Planted by the waters;

It was fruitful and full of branches

Because of abundant water.

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‘And it had strong branches for the scepters of rulers,

And its height was raised above the thick branches and into the clouds

So that it was seen [easily] in its height with the mass of its branches.

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‘But the vine was uprooted in [godly] wrath [by His representative]

And it was thrown down to the ground;

The east wind dried up its fruit.

Its strong branch was broken off

So that it withered;

The fire [of God’s judgment] consumed it.

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 19:13 -

‘And now it is transplanted in the wilderness,

In a dry and thirsty land [of Babylon].

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‘And the fire [of Zedekiah’s rebellion] has gone out from its branch;

It has consumed the vine’s shoots and fruit,

So that it has in it no [longer a] strong branch

As a scepter to rule.’”

This is a dirge (funeral poem to be sung), and has become a dirge.

AMP Footnotes
Either a timely reference to Jehoiachin who reigned only three months, or a prediction regarding Zedekiah. Both rulers were exiled to Babylon.
So with some ancient mss; MT blood.
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